1990 Book Award Winners

Cesar and Nestor Castillo arrive in New York from Havana in 1949 and form a band. Cesar sings, drinks, and pursues every woman in the borough with...

Roland Mitchell is an underemployed academic working on the Victorian poet Randolph Henry Ash. In a library copy of a book Ash owned, he finds two...

Rutherford Calhoun is a freed slave, a practiced petty thief and an accomplished liar, at large in New Orleans in 1830 and enjoying it thoroughly...

Harry Angstrom is fifty five and spends half the year in a Florida condominium, eating salted nuts he has been told to avoid, watching his heart...

Billy Behan is fifteen, poor, and fatherless in the Bronx of 1935 when the gangster Dutch Schultz, come to inspect a shipment of illegal beer,...

In the summer of 1936, James Agee and photographer Walker Evans lived among three tenant farming families in Alabama and turned what they saw into...

Stanley Karnow's In Our Image traces almost half a century of American rule in the Philippines, from the islands' transfer from Spain after the war...

Sebastian de Grazia's biography follows Niccolo Machiavelli from his 1469 birth in Florence, the son of an attorney, through his sudden and still...

The House of Morgan is the story of American finance told through its most powerful name, a history of the Morgan banking empire from its Victorian...

Penrose's title announces the target: the confident claim of 1980s artificial intelligence that the mind is software, and that machines running the...

The World Doesn't End gathers short prose poems, most no longer than a paragraph, each one a small, self contained scene rather than a poem broken...

Seven pilgrims travel to the world of Hyperion, to the Time Tombs, which are moving backward through time, and to the Shrike, a three meter...

Tenar, who was a priestess of the Tombs of Atuan as a girl and left with Ged and the ring, did not become a wizard or a queen. She married a farmer...

Mary Terror was Mary Terrell once, a true believer in the Storm Front Brigade, a Weather Underground styled cell whose bombs and communiqués ended...

Madouc is the third and last novel of Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy, after Lyonesse (also published as Suldrun's Garden) and The Green Pearl. The...

Dave Robicheaux is a widower now, running a bait dock south of New Iberia, raising the little Salvadoran girl he pulled from a drowned plane and...

Ten year old Annemarie Johansen is living in Nazi occupied Copenhagen in 1943 when her best friend Ellen Rosen, who is Jewish, is put in real...

When a mother leaves her three daughters, Shang, Tao, and Paotze, alone at home to visit their own grandmother, a wolf disguises himself as that...

The Labyrinth of Solitude is a book of essays, not a story, and it opens with Octavio Paz's own governing claim: that solitude is the deepest fact...