Title	Author	Shortlisted
Hotel du Lac	Anita Brookner	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Kruger's Alp	Christopher Hope	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Startide Rising	David Brin	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Victory Over Japan: A Book of Stories	Ellen Gilchrist	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845	Robert V. Remini	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Ironweed	William Kennedy	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
A Grande Arte	Rubem Fonseca	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Empire of the Sun	J. G. Ballard	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Flaubert's Parrot	Julian Barnes	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
In Custody	Anita Desai	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
According to Mark	Penelope Lively	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Small World	David Lodge	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Tea with the Black Dragon	R. A. MacAvoy	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Millennium	John Varley	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Robots of Dawn	Isaac Asimov	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Anatomy Lesson	Philip Roth	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Becoming William James	Howard M. Feinstein	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Thomas More: A Biography	Richard Marius	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka	Ernst Pawel	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
One Writer's Beginnings	Eudora Welty	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Cathedral	Raymond Carver	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Feud	Thomas Berger	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted