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
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