National Book Award

The Echo Maker by Powers, Richard
Europe Central by Vollmann, William T.
The News from Paraguay by Tuck, Lily
The Great Fire by Hazzard, Shirley
Three Junes by Glass, Julia
The Corrections by Franzen, Jonathan
In America by Sontag, Susan
Waiting by Jin, Ha
Charming Billy by McDermott, Alice
Cold Mountain by Frazier, Charles
Ship Fever and Other Stories by Barrett, Andrea
Sabbath's Theater by Roth, Philip
A Frolic of His Own by Gaddis, William
The Shipping News by Proulx, Annie
All the Pretty Horses by McCarthy, Cormac
Mating by Rush, Norman
The Middle Passage by Johnson, Charles Richard
Spartina by Casey, John
Paris Trout by Dexter, Pete
Paco's Story by Heinemann, Larry
World's Fair by Doctorow, E. L
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