Title	Author	Shortlisted
The English Patient	Michael Ondaatje	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Poor Things	Alasdair Gray	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Barrayar	Lois McMaster Bujold	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story	Paul Monette	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
A Thousand Acres	Jane Smiley	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Estorvo	Chico Buarque de Hollanda	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Sacred Hunger	Barry Unsworth	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Serenity House	Christopher Hope	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Butcher Boy	Patrick McCabe	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Black Dogs	Ian McEwan	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Daughters of the House	Michèle Roberts	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Bone Dance	Emma Bull	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
All the Weyrs of Pern	Anne McCaffrey	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Summer Queen	Joan D. Vinge	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Xenocide	Orson Scott Card	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Stations of the Tide	Michael Swanwick	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Bastard Out of Carolina	Dorothy Allison	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Dreaming in Cuban	Cristina García	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Lost in the City	Edward P. Jones	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Outerbridge Reach	Robert Stone	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Promise of the New South	Edward L. Ayers	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman	James Gleick	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Truman	David McCullough	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America	Garry Wills	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Jernigan	David Gates	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals	Robert M. Pirsig	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Mao II	Don DeLillo	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted