Notable Fiction List 1999 Some of the major hardcover titles scheduled for release in the U.S. in 1999.

All information is subject to change and dyslexic typos. Alphabetically arranged by author. A star indicates the book received a starred review (indicating that review source felt the title was exceptional) from the following sources: Booklist (BL), Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus, and Library Journal (LJ)

Publishers Weekly Best '99 Books, Library Journal's Best Books '99, the ALA Notable Book Council's selections, and Booklist's Editor's Choice selections are noted. NYTBR Notable and Editor's Choices are included. NBCC (National Book Critics Circle) award nominees and other award nominees are mentioned when possible.

AUTHOR	TITLE	DATE	NOTES Stars
Aksoyonov, Vassily	New Sweet Style	Nov	NYTBR Notable
Allende, Isabel	Daughter of Fortune	Oct	Booklist Editors' Choice
Amis, Martin	Heavy Water and Other Stories	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Anderson, Kurt	Turn of the Century	May	NYTBR Notable
Ansay, A. Manette	Midnight Champagne	June	NBCC finalist
Applefield, Aharon	Conversion	11/98	NYTBR Notable
Arensberg, Ann	Incubus	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Arnott, Jake	The Long Firm	Sept	NYTBR Notable
Auchincloss, Louis	The Anniversary and Other Stories	July	NYTBR Notable
Auster, Paul	Timbuktu	June	NYTBR Notable
Bail, Murray	Homesickness	Sept	NYTBR Notable
Baker, Kevin	Dreamland	March	NYTBR Notable
Baldwin, Shauna Singh	What the Body Remembers	Oct
Ball, David	Empires of Sand	Aug
Banffy, Miklos	They Were Counted	June
Banks, Melissa	The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing	June	PW Best Books
Barker, Pat	Another World	May	NYTBR Notable
Barnes, Julian	England, England	May	PW Best Books NYTBR Notable
Barry, Dave	Big Trouble	Sept
Barry, Maxx	Syrup	July
Bausch, Richard	Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories	May	NYTBR Notable
Beagle, Peter	Tamsin	Nov
Beard, Richard	Damascus	March	NYTBR Notable
Bear, Greg	Darwin's Radio	Sept	PW Best Books LJ Best Genre Fiction
Bedford, Martyn	The Houdini Girl	Feb
Begiebing, Robert J.	The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton; or a Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life	Nov
Belfer, Lauren	City of Light	May	NYTBR Notable LJ Best Books
Bennett, Ronan	The Catastrophist	Sept
Berbera, Nina	Book of Happiness	April	NYTBR Notable
Berger, Thomas	The Return of Little Big Man	March
Berners, Lord	Collected Tales and Fantasies	June
Besher, Alexander	Chi: A Novel of Virtual Reality	July
Binchy, Maeve	Tara Road	March
Blackburn, Julia	The Leper's Companions	April
Blaylock, James P.	The Rainy Season	Aug
Blevins, Win	Ravenshadow	Oct
Blinder, Martin	Fluke	Jan
Bolger, Dermot (ed)	Finbar's Hotel (trade paper)	April
Bonner, Cindy	Right from Wrong	March
Bowes, Richard	Minions of the Moon	Feb
Bradley, James	Wrack	May
Brand, Dionne	At the Full and Change of the Moon	Sept
Brink, Andre	Devil's Valley	March	NYTBR Notable
Brown, Carrie	Lamb in Love	April
Brown, Jason	Driving the Heart and Other Stories	April
Brown, Rita Mae	Loose Lips (Hunsenmeir sisters)	Aug
Brownrigg, Sylvia	The Metaphysical Touch	June	NYTBR Notable
Broyard, Bliss	My Father, Dancing	July	NYTBR Notable
Buckley, Christopher	Little Green Men	March	NYTBR Notable
Budhos, Marina Tamar	The Professor of Light	March
Budnitz, Judy	If I Told You Once	Nov
Bujold, Lois McMaster	A Civil Campaign	Sept
Bukiet, Melvin Jules	Signs and Wonders	April
Busch, Frederick	The Night Inspector	May	PW Best Books NYTBR Notable LJ Best Books NBCC finalist
Butler, Octavia	Parable of the Talents	Nov 1998	NYTBR Notable
Byatt, A.S.	Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice	May	NYTBR Notable
Campbell, Bonnie Jo	Women and Other Animals: Stories	Nov
Canty, Kevin	Nine Below Zero	Jan
Caputo, Philip	Voyage	Nov
Card, Orson Scott	Ender's Shadow	Sept	PW Best Books LJ Best Genre Fiction
Carrington, Roslyn	A Thirst for Rain	Sept
Cartwright, Justin	Leading the Cheers	Oct	Whitbread Award Winner
Castillo, Ana	Peel My Love Like an Onion	Oct
Cezair-Thompson, Margaret	The True History of Paradise	Aug
Chabon, Michael	Werewolves in Their Youth	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Chace, Rebecca	Capture the Flag	Aug
Chamberlin, Ann	The Merlin of St. Gilles' Well	Sept
Chamoiseau, Patrick	Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows	Dec
Chappell, Fred	Look Back All the Green Valley	Sept
Charnas, Suzy McKee	The Conquerer's Child	May
Charyn, Jerome	Captain Kidd	June
Chaudhuri, Amit	Freedom Song: Three Novels	March	NYTBR Notable
Cheever, Benjamin	Famous After Death	April
Cherryh, C.J.	Precursor	Nov
Ciresi, Rita	Pink Slip	Jan
Clark, Breena	River, Cross My Heart	July	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Honorable Mention
Coetzee, J.M.	Disgrace	Nov	Booker prize winner NYTBR Editors' Choice LJ Best Books NBCC finalist ALA Notable
Coomer, Joe	Apologizing to Dogs	Sept
Conde, Maryse	Windward Heights	Aug
Cosse, Laurence	A Corner of the Veil	May
Cusk, Rachel	The Country Life	Jan	NYTBR Notable Notable Books List
D'Aguiar, Fred	Feeding the Ghosts	Feb
Dangor, Achmat	Kafka's Curse	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Darby, Ann	The Orphan Game	May
Datlow, Ellen (ed)	Year's Best Fantasy and Horror	July
Davenport, Kiana	Song of the Exile	July
Davidson, Jim	Mine Work	Sept
Davis, Kathyrn	The Walking Tour	Nov	NYTBR Notable
Dawson, Carol	Mother-in-Law Diaries	Jan
Devoto, Pat Cunningham	My Last Days as Roy Rogers	Jan
Dezhnev, Nikolai	In Concert Performance	Dec
Diski, Jenny	Dream Mistress	Jan	NYTBR Notable
Divakurauni, Chitra Banerjee	Sister of My Heart	Jan
Dixon, Stephen	30: A Novel	May
Dodd, Susan	O Careless Love: Stories	Aug
Doenges, Judy	What She Left Me: Stories and a Novella	Aug	NYTBR Notable
Dorfman, Ariel	The Nanny and the Iceberg	May
Doucet, Julie	The New York Diary (graphic novel)	Sept
Downing, Michael	Breakfast with Scot	Nov
Doyle, Roddy	A Star Called Henry (Last Roundup, v 1)	Sept	PW Best Books New Yorker Award nominee NYTBR Editors' Choice Notable Books List
Draper, Robert	Hadrian's Walls	May
Driscoll, Jack	Lucky Man, Lucky Woman	Feb
Dubus, Andre	House of Sand and Fog	Feb	National Book Award finalist PW Best Books Notable Books List
Ducornet, Rikki	The Fan-Maker's Inquisition	Nov
Duncan, Dave	Lord of the Fire Lands: A Tale of the King's Blades	Oct
Dyer, Geoff	Paris Trance	May	NYTBR Notable
Eagle, Kathleen	What the Heart Knows	July	LJ Best Genre Fiction
Egolf, Tristan	Lord of the Barnyard	March	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Ellis, Alice Thomas	The 27th Kingdom	Sept
Ellison, Ralph	Juneteenth	June	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Englander, Nathan	For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories	April	PW Best Books NYTBR Notable Notable Books List
Erickson, Steve	Sea Came in at Midnight	April	NYTBR Notable
Emshwiller, Carol	Leaping Man Hill	Oct
Epstein, Leslie	Ice Fire Water: Leib Goldkorn Cocktail	Oct	NYTBR Notable
Escandon, Maria	Esperanza's Box of Saints	Jan
Estevez, Abilio	Thine is the Kingdom	Jan
Estleman, Loren D.	Thunder City	Nov
Evans, Elizabeth	Carter Clay	March
Farrell, Marjorie	Red Red Rose (paper)	Feb	LJ Best Genre Fiction
Faulks, Sebastian	Charlotte Gray	Feb
Feld, Ross	Zwilling's Dream	Sept
Figiel, Sia	Whree We Once Belonged	Oct
Fitch, Janet	White Oleander	April
Fitzgerald, Penelope	Human Voices (trade paper)	May
Foos, Laurie	Twinship	Sept
Foster, Ken	Kind I'm Likely to Get: A Collection	July	NYTBR Notable
Franklin, Tom	Poachers: Stories	June
Frayn, Michael	Headlong	Sept	shortlisted for Booker NYTBR Editors' Choice
Fredriksson, Marianne	Simon's Family	Sept
Gaiman, Neil	Stardust	Feb	PW Best Books
Galvin, James	Fencing the Sky	Oct	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Garcia, Eric	Anonymous Rex	Aug
Gardiner, John Rolfe	Somewhere in France	Sept	NYTBR Notable
Garfinkle, Richard	All of an Instant	Nov
Garland, Alex	The Tesseract	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Gasco, Elyse	Can You Wave Bye, Bye, Baby: Stories	July	NYTBR Notable
Gates, David	Wonders of the Invisible World	June	NYTBR Notable NBCC finalist
Gautreaux, Tim	Welding with Children	Oct	NYTBR Notable
Gay, William	Long Home	Nov	NYTBR Notable
Gedge, Pauline	The Hippopotamus Marsh	cancelled
George, Sara	The Journal of Mrs. Pepys	May
Gibson, William	All Tomorrow's Parties	Oct
Godwin, Gail	Evensong	March
Golding, Michael	Benjamin's Gift	April
Gologorsky, Beverly	The Things We Do To Make It Home	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Gotleib, Phyllis	Violent Stars	May
Gowdy, Barbara	The White Bone	May
Grand, David	Louse	Nov 1998	NYTBR Notable
Grass, Gunter	My Century	Dec	Nobel Prize Winner for literature
Graver, Elizabeth	The Honey Thief	Aug	NYTBR Notable
Griner, Paul	Collectors	Sept
Gunn, Kirsty	The Place You Return to Is Home: Stories	Feb
Guterson, David	East of the Mountains	March
Halpern, Daniel (ed)	The Art of the Story	Nov
Hambly, Barbara	Dragonshadow	March
Hannah, Kristin	On Mystic Lake	March
Hansen, Brooks	Pearlman's Ordeal	Aug	NYTRB Notable
Hansen, Ron	Hitler's Niece	Sept
Harpman, Jacqueline	Orlanda	Oct
Harr, John Ensor	Dark Eagle: A Story of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution	Oct
Harries, Ann	Manly Pursuits	March
Harris, Joanne	Chocolat	Feb	NYTRB Notable
Harris, Thomas	Hannibal	June 8th	NYTRB Notable
Hartwell, David	Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction	June
Haruf, Kent	Plainsong	Oct	National Book Award finalist PW Best Books New Yorker Award nominee NYTRB Notable Booksense Finalist
Hautman, Pete	Mrs. Million	March
Hayden, Elizabeth	Rhapsody	Sept
Haynes, Melinda	Mother of Pearl	June	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Hemingway, Ernest & Patrick	True at First Light: A Fictional Memoir	July	NYTRB Notable
Henderson, Bill (ed)	Pushcart Prize XXIV	Nov
Hendrie, Laura	Remember Me	Sept
Henley, Patricia	Hummingbird House	April	National Book Award finalist New Yorker Award nominee Booklist Top 10 First Novels Honorable Mention
Herbert, Brian, Kevin Anderson, & Frank Herbert	Dune: House of Atreides	Oct	LJ Best Genre Fiction
Herbert, James	Others	Oct
Higgins, George V.	The Agent	Jan
Hijuelos, Oscar	Empress of the Splendid Season	Feb	NYTRB Notable
Hill, Kathleen	Still Waters in Niger	April	NYTRB Notable
Hobb, Robin	Mad Ship (Liveship Traders #2)	April
Hoffman, Alice	Local Girls	June
Holleran, Andrew	In September, the Light Changes: Stories	June	NYTRB Notable
Hollinghurst, Alan	The Spell	April
Homes, A.M.	Music for Torching	May	NYTBR Notable
Hornburg, Michael	Downers Grove	Aug
Hrbek, Greg	Hindenburg Crashes Nightly	July
Huddle, David	The Story of a Million Years	Sept
Idle, Eric	The Road to Mars: A Post Modem Novel	Sept
Ignatius, David	Sun King	Sept
Ivory, Judith	The Proposition (paper)	Dec	LJ Best Genre Fiction
Jacobs, Kathleen	Never Forsaken	July
Jaffee, Annette Williams	The Dangerous Age	Jan
Jaffee, Michael Grant	Skateaway	Oct	Booklist Editors' Choice
Jaffe, Michele	The Stargazer	July
Jen, Gish	Who's Irish?	June	NYTBR Notable
Jensen, Jane	Millenium Rising	Nov
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer	Esat into Upper East: Tales from New York to New Delhi	Sept 1998	NYTBR Notable
Jin, Ha	Waiting	Oct	National Book Award Winner PW Best Books NYTRB Notable Notable Books List
Johnston, Wayne	The Divine Ryans (paper reprint)	Sept
Johnston, Wayne	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams	June	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice Notable Books List
Jones, Gayl	Mosquito	Jan
Jones, Stephen (ed)	The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror (trade paper)	Feb	PW Best Books
Jones, Thom	Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine: Stories	Jan	NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Joyce, Graham	Dark Sister	July
Just, Ward S.	A Dangerous Friend	May	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable Notable Books List
Kalfus, Ken	Pu-29 and Other Russian Fantasies	Sept	NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Kalman, Judith	The County of Birches	Sept
Kalpakian, Laura	The Delinquent Virgin: Stories	Nov	LJ Best Books ALA Notable
Kamau, Kwadwo Agymah	Picture of a Dying Man	Sept
Karaim, Reed	If Men Were Angels	May
Katchor, Ben	The Jew of New York	Jan	NYTRB Notable
Kay, Jackie	Trumpet	March
Kelman, James	The Good Times: Stories (paper)	Aug
Kelton, Elmer	Buckskin Line	Aug
Kennedy, A.L.	Original Bliss	Jan	NYTRB Notable
Kerr, Philip	The Second Angel	Jan
Keyes, J. Gregory	A Calculus of Angels (Age of Unreason, bk2) (trade paper)	April
Kimball, Philip	Liar's Moon	Sept
King, Lily	The Pleasing Hour	Sept	NYTRB Notable
King, Stephen	Hearts in Atlantis (short fiction collection)	Sept	Booklist Editors' Choice
King, Stephen	The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon	April	PW Best Books
Kirn, Walter	Thumbsucker (trade paper)	Oct	NYTRB Notable
Klima, Ivan	Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories on Love	Sept	NYTRB Notable
Koenig, Andrea	Thumbelina: A Novel	Feb	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Honorable Mention
Kohler, Sheila	Cracks	Sept	LJ Best Books
Korelitz, Jean Haniff	The Sabbathday River	April
Kureishi, Hanif	Intimacy	March
Lahiri, Jhumpa	Interpreter of Maladies (trade paper)	June	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable Pulitzer Prize Winner
Lasser, Scott	Battle Creek	May
Lavalle, Victor D.	Slapboxing with Jesus (trade paper)	Oct	1999 top ten books of the year by the Washington Post editor Jabari Asim
Lee, Chang-Rae	A Gesture Life	Sept	PW Best Books New Yorker Award nominee NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Leffland, Ella	Breath and Shadows	April	NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Leith, Valery	Company of Glass: Book One of Everien	July
Lemmons, Thom	Daughter of Jerusalem	March
Lennon, J. Robert	The Funnies	Feb
Leslie, Diane	Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime	May	LJ Best Books
Lessing, Doris	Mara and Dann	Jan
Lethem, Jonathan	Motherless Brooklyn	Sept	NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice - Top of the List Notable Books List NBCC Winner
Levien, David	Wormwood	June
L'Heureux, John	Having Everything	Sept	NYTRB Notable
Lippincott, Robin	Mr. Dalloway	July
Literas, D.S.	Judas the Gentile	Aug
Lively, Penelope	Spiderweb	April
Long, Jeff	Descent	June
Logue, Antonia	Shadow-Box	Aug	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
MacCaferri, Elena	A Bench on Which to Rest	Aug
MacKay, Shena	The Artist's Widow	May	NYTBR Notable
MacLeod, Ken	The Cassini Division	July
Magona, Sindiwe	Mother to Mother	Sept
Maguire, Gregory	Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister	Nov
Makine, Andrei	The Crime of Olga Arbyelina	Sept
Mapson, Jo-Ann	The Wilder Sisters	June
Maraini, Dacia	Silent Duchess	Sept 1998	NYTBR Notable
Marshall, Robert	The Haunted Major	April
Martin, Emer	More Bread or I'll Appear	Jan
Martin, George R. R.	A Clash of Kings (Stark Family)	March
Martin, Valerie	Italian Fever	July	NYTRB Notable
Matheson, Richard Christian	Dystopia: Collected Stories	Dec
Matthiessen, Peter	Bone By Bone (Watson Trilogy)	April	PW Best Books NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Mattison, Alice	Book Borrower	Oct	NYTBR Notable
Matz, Marc	Nocturne for a Dangerous Man	July
Maxwell, Robin	The Queen's Bastard	May
McAuley, Paul J.	Ancients of Days: The Second Book of the Confluence	July
McCabe, Patrick	Breakfast on Pluto	April	Booker Prize short list NYTBR Notable
McCafferty, Jane	One Heart	Oct
McCarten, Anthony	Spinners	Feb	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Honorable Mention
McDonald, Roger	Mr. Darwin's Shooter	Jan	NYTRB Notable
McEwan, Ian	Amsterdam: A Novel	Feb	Booker Prize Winner NYTBR Notable
McGregor, H.R (ed)	Schrodinger's Baby	Sept
McKinney-Whetstone, Diane	Blues Dancing	Nov
McMullen, Sean	Souls of the Great Machine	June
McMurtry, Larry	Duane's Depressed (last book in the The Last Picture Show trilogy)	Jan	NYTRB Notable
McNamer, Deirdre	My Russian	June	NYTRB Notable
McNeil, Jean	Hunting Down Home	May
Melville, Pauline	Migration of Ghosts	April
Messud, Claire	The Last Life	Sept	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable
Mestre, Ernesto	Lazarus Rumba	June
Meyers, Kent	Light in the Crossing: Stories	Aug	NYTBR Notable
Michael, Ib	Prince	Nov
Milhauser, Steven	Enchanted Night	Oct
Miller, Sue	While I Was Gone	Feb	NYTRB Notable
Mills, Magnus	All Quiet on the Orient Express	Sept
Minot, Eliza	The Tiny One	Nov	NYTRB Notable
Molina, Silvia	The Love You Promised Me (trade paper)	Oct
Molinaro, Ursule	Demons and Divas: Three Novels	Nov
Montero, Marya	The Messenger	May
Morgan, Robert	Gap Creek	Oct	NYTBR Notable
Morris, Gilbert	All That Glitters	July
Mortimer, John	Sound of Trumpets	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Mount, Ferdinand	Jem (and Sam)	June	NYTRB Notable
Munroe, Jim	Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask (trade paper)	Nov
Murakami, Haruki	South of the Border, West of the Sun	Feb	NYTBR Notable
Murray, Les A.	Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse	March	NYTBR Notable
Nahai, Gina	Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith	March
Napoleon, Landon J.	ZigZag	May
Naslund, Sena Jeter	Ahab's Wife or the Star - Gazer	Nov	PW Best Books NYTBR Notable Booklist Editors' Choice Booksense Finalist
Nattel, Lilian	The River Midnight	Jan
Nichols, Peter	Voyage to the North Star	Nov
Niven, Larry	Rainbow Mars	March
Nye, Robert	The Late Mr. Shakespeare	April
Oates, Joyce Carol	Broke Heart Blues	June
O'Brien, Patrick	Blue at the Mizzen	Nov
O'Connell, Robert L.	Fast Eddie: A Novel in Many Voices	Aug	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booklist Editors' Choice
O'Connor, Joseph	Salesman	March
O'Doherty, Brian	The Deposition of Father McGreevy	May	Booker Prize shortlist
Offill, Jenny	Last Things	April	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Honorable Mention NYTRB Notable
Offut, Chris	Out of the Woods: Stories	Feb	NYTRB Notable
O'Hagan, Andrew	Our Fathers	Oct	shortlisted for Booker Booklist Top 10 First Novels
O'Nan, Stewart	A Prayer for the Dying	April	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable
Ortese, Anna Maria	Lament of the Linnet	April
Palahniuk, Chuck	Survivor	Feb
Park, June	The Bingo Queens of Paradise	May
Peacock, Nancy	Home Across the Road	Oct
Pelevin, Victor	Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories	Nov 1998	NYTBR Notable
Perabo, Susan	Who I Was Supposed to Be: Stories	Aug
Peretti, Frank	The Visitation	Aug
Perez, Loida Maritza	Geographies of the Home	March
Perlman, Elliot	Three Dollars	June
Perry, Anne	Tathea	Sept
Phillips, Dale	My People's Waltz	March	NYTBR Notable
Picoult, Jodi	Keeping Faith	May
Porter, Connie	Imani All Mine	Jan
Poyer, David	Thunder on the Mountain	Jan
Priest, Christopher	Extremes	May	NYTBR Notable
Proulx, Annie	Close Range: Wyoming Stories	May	PW Best Books New Yorker Award nominee NYTBR Editors' Choice LJ Best Books
Realuyo, Bino A.	The Umbrella Country (trade paper)	March	Booklist Top 10 First Novels
Redd, Louise	Hangover Soup	Aug
Redmond, Patrick	Something Dangerous	Oct
Reid, Van	Mollie Peer: Moosepath	July
Reuss, Frederick	Henry of Atlantic City	Aug	LJ Best Books Notable Books List
Richter, Stacey	My Date with Satan: Stories	July	NYTBR Notable
Riley, Judith Merkle	The Master of All Desires	Nov	LJ Best Genre Fiction
Rinaldi, Nicholas M.	The Jukebox Queen of Malta	June	LJ Best Books
Rizzuto, Rahna Ricko	Why She Left Us	Sept
Roberson, Jennifer	Lady of Sherwood	Nov
Robins, Madeline E.	Stone War	Aug	NYTBR Notable
Robinson, Bruce	The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman	Jan	NYTRB Notable
Robinson, Kim Stanley	The Martians	Oct	NYTRB Notable
Rodgers, Joni	Sugar Land (paper)	May
Roessner, Michaela	The Stars Compel	Oct
Rogers, Jane	Mr. Wroe's Virgins	April	NYTRB Notable
Rosenbaum, Thane	Second Hand Smoke	April
Rufin, Jean-Christophe	Abyssinian	Sept	LJ Best Books
Rushdie, Salman	The Ground Beneath Her Feet	April	NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Russell, Josh	Yellow Jack	Aug
Saramago, Jose	The Tale of the Unknown Island	Nov
Sarrantonio, Al (ed)	999: New Stories of Horror	Sept
Sawyer, Robert J.	Flashforward	June
Schroeder, Joan	The Hearts of Soldiers	April
Schulman, Audrey	Swimming with Jonah	March
Schwartz, Leslie	Jumping the Green	Oct
See, Carolyn	The Handyman	March
Self, Will	Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys	May	NYTRB Notable
Seth, Vikram	An Equal Music	May
Seymour, Miranda	Summer of '39	Sept	NYTBR Notable
Shalev, Meir	Loves of Judith	March
Shapiro, Gerald	Bad Jews: Stories	Oct
Shapiro, Jane	The Dangerous Husband	Sept
Shirley, John	Really, Really, Really Weird Stories	May
Shreve, Anita	Fortune's Rocks	Dec	PW Best Books
Sides, Marilyn	The Genius of Affection	Aug
Siegal, Lee	Love in a Dead Language	May	NYTBR Notable
Sigaud, Dominique	Somewhere in a Desert	Oct
Silko, Leslie Marmon	Gardens in the Dunes	April	Booklist Editors' Choice
Silverberg, Robert (ed)	Far Horizons: All New Tales from the Greatest Worlds of Science Fiction	May
Slater, Judith	Baby Can Sing and Other Stories	Nov
Slavin, Julia	The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg at the Maidstone Club	July	NYTRB Notable
Sole, Robert	The Photographers's Wife	Oct
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr	November 1916	Jan	NYTRB Notable
Spanidou, Irini	Fear	Jan
St Aubin De Teran, Lisa	The Palace	June	NYTRB Notable
Staffel, Megan	Notebook of Lost Things	Aug
Steinke, Rene	The Fires	March
Stephenson, Neal	Cryptonomicon	May	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable LJ Best Genre Fiction
Sterling, Bruce	Distraction	Jan
Stern, Steve	Wedding Jester	June
Straub, Peter	Mister X	August	PW Best Books
Strauss, Victoria	The Garden of the Stone (paper)	Nov
Strout, Elizabeth	Amy and Isabelle	Jan	PW Best Books Booklist Top 10 First Novels NYTBR Notable
Sukenick, Ronald	Mosiac Man (paper)	April
Swann, E.L.	Night Gardening	April
Tan, Amy (ed)	The Best American Short Stories 1999	Oct
Tarloff, Erik	Face-Time	Jan
Taylor, Mel	The Mitt Man	Feb
T'ien-Wen, Chu	Notes of a Desolate Man	June	NYTRB Notable
Tepper, Sheri S.	Singer from the Sea	April
Thackara, James	The Book of Kings	April
Theroux, Marcel	Stranger in the Earth	Aug
Thompson, Jean	Who Do You Love: Stories	June	National Book Award finalist PW Best Books NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice
Tilghman, Christopher	The Way People Run: Stories	May	NYTRB Notable
Trollope, Joanna	Other People's Children	March
Troy, Judy	From the Black Hills	July
Turtledove, Harry	Colonization: Second Contact	Feb
Ullmann, Linn	Before You Sleep	Oct
Unsworth, Barry	Losing Nelson	Nov	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable
Unsworth, Barry	Sugar and Rum (trade paper)	May	NYTBR Notable
Updike, John (ed)	Best American Short Stories of the Century	April	NYTBR Notable
Valdes, Zoe	I Gave You All I Had	July
Vandenburg, Jane	Physics of Sunset	June
Van Wormer, Laura	Expose	Aug	NYTBR Notable
Vinge, Vernon	A Deepness in the Sky	Feb	PW Best Books
Vreeland, Susan	Girl in Hyacinth Blue	Sept	PW Best Books
Vu, Tran	The Dragon Hunt	March
Wallace, David Foster	Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: Stories	May	NYTRB Notable
Warner, Alan	Sopranos	April	NYTBR Notable
Waters, Sarah	Tipping the Velvet	May	NYTRB Notable LJ Best Books
Watts, Peter	Starfish	July	NYTRB Notable
Waugh, Evelyn	Collected Stories	Sept
Webb, James H.	The Emperor's General	April
Weber, Katherine	The Music Lesson	Jan	PW Best Books NYTRB Notable
Wendel, Tim	Castro's Curveball	Feb
White, Michael C.	Blind Side of the Heart	Sept
Whitehead, Colson	The Intuitionist	Jan	Booklist Top 10 First Novels NYTRB Notable
Whyte, Christopher	The Warlock of Strathearn	Feb
Williamson, Eric Miles	East Bay Grease	March
Winterson, Jeanette	The World and Other Places: Stories	March
Wolitzer, Meg	Surrender, Dorothy	April
Wolk, Lauren	Those Who Favor Fire	Feb
Wright, Vinita Hampton	Grace at Bender Springs	Sept
Yamanaka, Lois-Ann	Heads by Harry	Feb
Yarbrough, Steve	The Oxygen Man	June	Booklist Top 10 First Novels Booklist Editors' Choice
Yehoshua, A.B.	A Journey to the End of the Millennium: A Novel of the Middle Ages	Jan	NYTRB Notable
Yen, Geling	White Snake and Other Stories	Aug
Yoshikawa, Mako	One Hundred and One Ways	June
Yourgrau, Barry	Haunted Traveller: An Imaginary Memoir	April
Zeidner, Lisa	Layover	June	NYTRB Notable