National Book Award Winners, 1990-1999

1990 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Middle Passage by Charles Johnson NONFICTION The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
1991 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Mating by Norman Rush NONFICTION Freedom by Orlando Patterson POETRY What Work Is by Philip Levine
1992 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy NONFICTION Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story by Paul Monette POETRY New & Selected Poems by Mary Oliver
1993 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx NONFICTION United States: Essays 1952-1992 by Gore Vidal POETRY Garbage by A. R. Ammons
1994 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis NONFICTION How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland POETRY A Worshipful Company of Fletchers by James Tate
1995 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Sabbath's Theater by Philip Roth Recipient of the 2002 Distinguished Contribution to American Letters NONFICTION The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg POETRY Passing Through: The Later Poems by Stanley Kunitz
1996 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Ship Fever and Other Stories by Andrea Barrett NONFICTION An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us by James Carroll POETRY Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey by Hayden Carruth YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE Parrott In the Oven: MiVida by Victor Martinez
1997 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier NONFICTION American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis POETRY Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems by William Meredith YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE Dancing on the Edge by by Han Nolan
1998 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Charming Billy by Alice McDermott NONFICTION Slaves in the Family by Edward Ball POETRY This Time: New and Selected Poems by Gerald Stern YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE Holes by Louis Sachar
1999 Click on author's name to see profile; click on book title to purchase.	FICTION Waiting by Ha Jin NONFICTION Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower POETRY Vice: New & Selected Poems by Ai YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE When Zachary Beaver Came to Town by Kimberly Willis Holt