1988 in Literature

New Books

Margaret Atwood – Cat's Eye
J.G. Ballard – Memories of the Space Age
Iain M. Banks – The Player of Games
Clive Barker
- Cabal
- The Hellbound Heart
Thomas Berger – The Houseguest
Dionne Brand – Sans Souci and Other Stories
Ray Bradbury – The Toynbee Convector
Orson Scott Card – Treason
Peter Carey – Oscar and Lucinda
Roger Caron – Jojo
Michael Chabon – The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Tom Clancy – The Cardinal of the Kremlin
Paulo Coelho – The Alchemist
Hugh Cook – The Walrus and the Warwolf
Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Rifles and Wildtrack
Roald Dahl – Matilda
Tsitsi Dangarembga – Nervous Conditions
L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp – The Stones of Nomuru
Duong Thu Huong - Paradise of the Blind
Allan W. Eckert – The Dark Green Tunnel
Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum (Il pendolo di Foucault)
John Gardner – Scorpius
Alan Hollinghurst – The Swimming Pool Library
William Horwood – Duncton Wood
Judith Krantz – Til We Meet Again
Doris Lessing – The Fifth Child
Robert Ludlum – The Icarus Agenda
David Markson – Wittgenstein's Mistress
James A. Michener – Alaska
Robert B. Parker – Crimson Joy
Belva Plain – Tapestry
Ellis Peters - The Confession of Brother Haluin
Richard Powers – Prisoner's Dilemma
Tim Powers – On Stranger Tides
Terry Pratchett
- Sourcery
- Wyrd Sisters
Alina Reyes – The Butcher
Salman Rushdie – The Satanic Verses
Richard Russo – The Risk Pool
R. A. Salvatore – The Crystal Shard – first book of the The Icewind Dale Trilogy
Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time
Clark Ashton Smith – A Rendezvous in Averoigne
Danielle Steel – Zoya
Thomas Sullivan – The Phases of Harry Moon
Nikolai Tolstoy – The Coming of the King
Anne Tyler – Breathing Lessons
Andrew Vachss – Blue Belle