Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Satanic Verses	Salman Rushdie	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Oscar and Lucinda	Peter Carey	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
The Uplift War	David Brin	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Paris Trout	Pete Dexter	National Book Award for Fiction winner
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam	Neil Sheehan	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Beloved	Toni Morrison	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Dinheiro na Estrada	Emil Farhat	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Utz	Bruce Chatwin	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Beginning of Spring	Penelope Fitzgerald	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Nice Work	David Lodge	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Lost Father	Marina Warner	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
When Gravity Fails	George Alec Effinger	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Seventh Son	Orson Scott Card	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Forge of God	Greg Bear	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Urth of the New Sun	Gene Wolfe	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Libra	Don DeLillo	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Vanished	Mary McGarry Morris	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Wheat That Springeth Green	J. F. Powers	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Breathing Lessons	Anne Tyler	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863–1877	Eric Foner	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Freud: A Life for Our Time	Peter Gay	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Nora: The Real Life of Molly Bloom	Brenda Maddox	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Jefferson and Monticello: The Biography of a Builder	Jack McLaughlin	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Persian Nights	Diane Johnson	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
That Night	Alice McDermott	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted