New Prose Fiction
- Isaac Asimov – Robots and Empire
- Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid's Tale
- Jean M. Auel – The Mammoth Hunters
- Iain Banks – Walking on Glass
- Clive Barker – The Damnation Game
- Greg Bear – Blood Music and Eon
- Anthony Burgess – The Kingdom of the Wicked
- M. C. Beaton – Death of a Gossip
- Orson Scott Card – Ender's Game
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Honour
- Elizabeth Darrell – At the Going Down of the Sun
- Don DeLillo – White Noise
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Execution of Justice
- Bret Easton Ellis – Less Than Zero
- John Fowles – A Maggot
- Gabriel García Márquez – Love in the Time of Cholera
- Alasdair Gray - The Fall of Kelvin Walker: A Fable of the Sixties
- Graham Greene – The Tenth Man
- Imil Habibi – The Secret Life of Saeed
- Amy Hempel – Reasons to Live
- Frank Herbert – Chapterhouse: Dune
- John Irving – The Cider House Rules
- Garrison Keillor – Lake Wobegon Days
- Stephen King – Skeleton Crew
- László Krasznahorkai – Satantango
- Doris Lessing – The Good Terrorist
- H. P. Lovecraft – At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels and The Dunwich Horror and Others (corrected edition)
- Richard A. Lupoff – Lovecraft's Book
- Cormac McCarthy – Blood Meridian
- Larry McMurtry – Lonesome Dove
- John D. MacDonald – The Lonely Silver Rain
- Naguib Mahfouz – Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth
- James A. Michener – Texas
- Brian Moore – Black Robe
- Bharati Mukherjee – Darkness
- Iris Murdoch – The Good Apprentice
- Orhan Pamuk – The White Castle
- Robert B. Parker – Catskill Eagle
- Ellis Peters - An Excellent Mystery
- Caryl Phillips – The Final Passage
- Peter Pohl – Johnny, My Friend (Janne, min vän)
- Charles Portis – Masters of Atlantis
- Carl Sagan – Contact
- Sidney Sheldon – If Tomorrow Comes
- Danielle Steel – Secrets
- Antonio Tabucchi – Little Misunderstandings of No Importance
- Sue Townsend – Rebuilding Coventry
- Anne Tyler – The Accidental Tourist
- Andrew Vachss – Flood
- Kurt Vonnegut - Galápagos
- Jeanette Winterson – Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
- Roger Zelazny – Trumps of Doom
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