1990s
- 1990: The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos
- Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow
- 1991: Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
- Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan
- The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
- 1992: A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
- Jernigan by David Gates
- Lila: An Inquiry into Morals by Robert M. Pirsig
- Mao II by Don DeLillo
- 1993: A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
- At Weddings and Wakes by Alice McDermott
- Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1994: The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
- The Collected Stories by Reynolds Price
- Operation Shylock: A Confession by Philip Roth
- 1995: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
- The Collected Stories by Grace Paley
- What I Lived For by Joyce Carol Oates
- 1996: Independence Day by Richard Ford
- Mr. Ives' Christmas by Oscar Hijuelos
- Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth
- 1997: Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser
- The Manikin by Joanna Scott
- Unlocking the Air and Other Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin
- 1998: American Pastoral by Philip Roth
- Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
- Underworld by Don DeLillo
- 1999: The Hours by Michael Cunningham
- Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
- The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
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