1987 Book Award Winners

Phillip Carver is forty nine, an editor of rare books in New York, living with a younger woman he will not marry. His two unmarried sisters summon...

Claudia Hampton is dying in a hospital bed, and the nurses have decided she is a confused old woman. She was a war correspondent, a popular...

Alpha Company died at Fire Base Harriette: ninety some men, annihilated in a single night's attack, and the novel is narrated by their ghosts, a...

The Counterlife is five novels about the same two brothers, and they cancel one another out. In Basel, Henry Zuckerman, a suburban dentist, has a...

Teddy Maki grew up in Los Angeles and plays jazz in a band led by his friend Jimmy. In 1941 the musicians are in Tokyo when Pearl Harbor is bombed,...

David K. Shipler spent years covering the Middle East for The New York Times, including a stretch as the paper's Jerusalem bureau chief, and he...

Bernard Bailyn built Voyagers to the West around a single remarkable source, the register of emigrants that the Lords of the Treasury required...

David J. Garrow's biography follows Martin Luther King Jr. through the founding of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, built with...

The Making of the Atomic Bomb is the definitive history of the invention that divided the twentieth century, told across nearly nine hundred pages...

Thomas and Beulah tells the story of a marriage across two linked sequences of poems, one voiced from the perspective of Thomas, the other from...

Three thousand years after Ender Wiggin destroyed an entire species, he is thirty five years old, kept young by relativistic travel, and works...

Elizabeth Butler is an archaeologist in her fifties with a reputation for unorthodox conclusions, a history of psychiatric hospitalization after a...

Paul Sheldon has just killed the goose that laid his golden eggs: in the manuscript riding beside him through a Colorado snowstorm, he has finally...

The missiles fly early in McCammon's epic, and the book is everything after: America as a nuclear winter wasteland, crossed for seven years by...

Jean Baptiste Grenouille is born in the stench of an eighteenth century Paris fish market with the most extraordinary sense of smell anyone around...

Vera Hillyard was hanged. That fact stands at the novel's center from the first pages, the family's unspeakable event, and the book is her niece...

Prince Horace, known to everyone as Prince Brat, is too well protected by his rank to ever be punished directly, so the palace keeps an orphan...

Al, a city janitor, and his dog Eddie share a cramped, dingy apartment they are both openly tired of, and when a huge, well spoken bird appears at...

Less Than One gathers essays rather than telling a single story, and its real subject across all of them is what it costs, and what it clarifies,...