Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Bone People	Keri Hulme	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Hawksmoor	Peter Ackroyd	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Neuromancer	William Gibson	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
White Noise	Don DeLillo	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families	J. Anthony Lukas	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Foreign Affairs	Alison Lurie	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Viva o Povo Brasileiro	João Ubaldo Ribeiro	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Illywhacker	Peter Carey	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Battle of Pollocks Crossing	J. L. Carr	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Good Terrorist	Doris Lessing	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Last Letters from Hav	Jan Morris	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Good Apprentice	Iris Murdoch	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Emergence	David R. Palmer	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Peace War	Vernor Vinge	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Job: A Comedy of Justice	Robert A. Heinlein	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Integral Trees	Larry Niven	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Always Coming Home	Ursula K. Le Guin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Tree of Life	Hugh Nissenson	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Use of Human Heredity	Daniel J. Kevles	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
...the Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age	Walter A. McDougall	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
I Wish This War Were Over	Diana O'Hehir	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Leaving the Land	Douglas Unger	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted