Fiction
Norman mailer, The Executioner's Song

Biography
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

History
Leon F. Litwack, Been in the Storm So Long

General Nonfiction
Douglas R. Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach

Poetry
Donald R. Justice, Selected Poems

Drama
Lanford Wilson, Talley's Folly

Fiction
John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

Biography
Robert K. Massie, Peter the Great

History
Lawrence A. Cremin, American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876

General Nonfiction
Carl E. Schoske, Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture

Poetry
James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem

Drama
Beth Henley, Crimes of the Heart

Fiction
John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

Biography
William S. McFeeley, Grant, A Biography

History
C. Vann Woodward, Mary Chestnut's Civil War

General Nonfiction
Tracy Kidder, The Soul of a New Machine

Poetry
Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

Drama
Charles Fuller, A Soldier's Play

Fiction
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Biography
Russell Baker, Growing Up

History
Rhys L. Isaac, The Transformation of Virgina: 1740-1790

General Nonfiction
Susan Sheehan, Is There No Place onn Earth for Me?

Poetry
Galway Kinnell, Selected Poems

Drama
Marsha Norman, 'Night, Mother

Fiction
William Kennedy, Ironweed

Biography
Louis R. Harlan, Booker T. Washington

History
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General Nonfiction
Paul Starr, Social Transformation of American Medicine

Poetry
Mary Oliver, American Primitive

Drama
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross

Fiction
Alison Lurie, Foerign Affairs

Biography
Kenneth Silverman, The Life and Times of Cotton Mather

History
Thomas K. McCraw, Prophets of Regulation

General Nonfiction
Studs Terkel, The Good War: An Oral History of World War II

Poetry
Carolyn Kizer, Yin

Drama
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, Sunday in the Park With George

Fiction
Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Biography
Elizabeth Frank, Louise Bogan: A Portrait

History
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General Nonfiction
Joseph Lelyveld, Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White
J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Poetry
Henry taylor, The Flying Change

Drama
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Fiction
Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis

Biography
David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

History
Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution

General Nonfiction
David k. Shipler, Arab and Jew: Wounded Spirits in a Promised Land

Poetry
Rita Dove, Thomas and Beulah

Drama
August Wilson, Fences

Fiction
Toni Morrison, Beloved

Biography
David herbert Donald, Looking Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

History
Robert V. bruce, The Launching of Modern American Science, 1846-1876

General Nonfiction
Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Boimb

Poetry
William Meredith, New and Selected Poems

Drama
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy

Fiction
Anne Tyler, Breathing Lessons

Biography
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History
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General Nonfiction
Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie

Poetry
Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems

Drama
Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles