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Notable Fiction List 1999
Page Modified: April 2, 2008
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 of 1999 Links to Stars information - large files! |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Belfer, Lauren | City of Light | May | NYTBR Notable LJ Best Books |
| Bennett, Ronan | The Catastrophist | Sept |
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| Berbera, Nina | Book of Happiness | April | NYTBR Notable |
| Berger, Thomas | The Return of Little Big Man | March | |
| Berners, Lord | Collected Tales and Fantasies | June |
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| Besher, Alexander | Chi: A Novel of Virtual Reality | July |
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| Binchy, Maeve | Tara Road | March | |
| Blackburn, Julia | The Leper's Companions | April |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Brown, Jason | Driving the Heart and Other Stories | April |
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| Brown, Rita Mae | Loose Lips (Hunsenmeir sisters) | Aug |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Chabon, Michael | Werewolves in Their Youth | Feb | NYTBR Notable |
| Chace, Rebecca | Capture the Flag | Aug |
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| 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 |
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| Charyn, Jerome | Captain Kidd | June |
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| Chaudhuri, Amit | Freedom Song: Three Novels | March | NYTBR Notable |
| Cheever, Benjamin | Famous After Death | April |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Dangor, Achmat | Kafka's Curse | Feb | NYTBR Notable |
| Darby, Ann | The Orphan Game | May |
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| Datlow, Ellen (ed) | Year's Best Fantasy and Horror | July |
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| Davenport, Kiana | Song of the Exile | July |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Driscoll, Jack | Lucky Man, Lucky Woman | Feb |
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| 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 |
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| Estleman, Loren D. | Thunder City | Nov |
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| Evans, Elizabeth | Carter Clay | March | |
| Farrell, Marjorie | Red Red Rose (paper) | Feb | LJ Best Genre Fiction |
| Faulks, Sebastian | Charlotte Gray | Feb |
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| Feld, Ross | Zwilling's Dream | Sept | |
| Figiel, Sia | Whree We Once Belonged | Oct | |
| Fitch, Janet | White Oleander | April |
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| Fitzgerald, Penelope | Human Voices (trade paper) | May |
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| Foos, Laurie | Twinship | Sept | |
| Foster, Ken | Kind I'm Likely to Get: A Collection | July | NYTBR Notable |
| Franklin, Tom | Poachers: Stories | June |
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| 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 |
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| George, Sara | The Journal of Mrs. Pepys | May |
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| Gibson, William | All Tomorrow's Parties | Oct |
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| Godwin, Gail | Evensong | March |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Gunn, Kirsty | The Place You Return to Is Home: Stories | Feb | |
| Guterson, David | East of the Mountains | March |
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| Halpern, Daniel (ed) | The Art of the Story | Nov | |
| Hambly, Barbara | Dragonshadow | March |
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| Hannah, Kristin | On Mystic Lake | March |
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| 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 |
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| Harris, Joanne | Chocolat | Feb | NYTRB Notable |
| Harris, Thomas | Hannibal | June 8th | NYTRB Notable |
| Hartwell, David | Centaurus: The Best Australian Science Fiction | June |
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| 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 |
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| Hoffman, Alice | Local Girls | June |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Kalpakian, Laura | The Delinquent Virgin: Stories | Nov |
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| Kamau, Kwadwo Agymah | Picture of a Dying Man | Sept |
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| Karaim, Reed | If Men Were Angels | May |
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| Katchor, Ben | The Jew of New York | Jan | NYTRB Notable |
| Kay, Jackie | Trumpet | March | |
| Kelman, James | The Good Times: Stories (paper) | Aug |
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| Kelton, Elmer | Buckskin Line | Aug |
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| 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 |
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| Kimball, Philip | Liar's Moon | Sept |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Lethem, Jonathan | Motherless Brooklyn | Sept | NYTRB Notable Booklist Editors' Choice - Top of the List Notable Books List NBCC Winner |
| Levien, David | Wormwood | June |
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| L'Heureux, John | Having Everything | Sept | NYTRB Notable |
| Lippincott, Robin | Mr. Dalloway | July | |
| Literas, D.S. | Judas the Gentile | Aug |
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| Lively, Penelope | Spiderweb | April |
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| Long, Jeff | Descent | June |
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| Logue, Antonia | Shadow-Box | Aug | Booklist Top 10 First Novels |
| MacCaferri, Elena | A Bench on Which to Rest | Aug |
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| MacKay, Shena | The Artist's Widow | May | NYTBR Notable |
| MacLeod, Ken | The Cassini Division | July |
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| Magona, Sindiwe | Mother to Mother | Sept |
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| Maguire, Gregory | Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister | Nov |
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| Makine, Andrei | The Crime of Olga Arbyelina | Sept | |
| Mapson, Jo-Ann | The Wilder Sisters | June |
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| Maraini, Dacia | Silent Duchess | Sept 1998 | NYTBR Notable |
| Marshall, Robert | The Haunted Major | April |
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| Martin, Emer | More Bread or I'll Appear | Jan |
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| 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 |
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| Maxwell, Robin | The Queen's Bastard | May |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Melville, Pauline | Migration of Ghosts | April | |
| Messud, Claire | The Last Life | Sept | PW Best Books NYTRB Notable |
| Mestre, Ernesto | Lazarus Rumba | June |
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| Meyers, Kent | Light in the Crossing: Stories | Aug | NYTBR Notable |
| Michael, Ib | Prince | Nov | |
| Milhauser, Steven | Enchanted Night | Oct |
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| 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 |
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| Morgan, Robert | Gap Creek | Oct | NYTBR Notable |
| Morris, Gilbert | All That Glitters | July |
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| 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 |
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| Napoleon, Landon J. | ZigZag | May |
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| 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 |
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| Nye, Robert | The Late Mr. Shakespeare | April |
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| Oates, Joyce Carol | Broke Heart Blues | June |
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| O'Brien, Patrick | Blue at the Mizzen | Nov |
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| 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 |
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| Palahniuk, Chuck | Survivor | Feb |
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| Park, June | The Bingo Queens of Paradise | May |
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| 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 |
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| Perez, Loida Maritza | Geographies of the Home | March | |
| Perlman, Elliot | Three Dollars | June |
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| Perry, Anne | Tathea | Sept |
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| Phillips, Dale | My People's Waltz | March | NYTBR Notable |
| Picoul |