- Taft, Ann Patchett
- The commitments, Roddy Doyle
- The wild rose, Doris Mortman
- Nightmusic, Harrison Gradwell Slater
- The loser, Thomas Bernhard ; translated from the German by Jack Dawson ; afterword by Mark M. Anderson
- The celestial jukebox, a novel, Cynthia Shearer
- Shackling water, Adam Mansbach
- Gramercy Park, Paula Cohen
- Sacred and profane;, a novel of the life and times of Mozart
- Kathy Little Bird, Benedict and Nancy Freedman
- Prima donna at large, Barbara Paul
- Edson, by Bill Morrissey