Librarians’ Choice 1998 Fiction

Selected by the staff of the Fiction Department from fiction received in 1998.

• Allison, Dorothy · Cavedweller *
• Amis, Martin · Night Train *
• Bainbridge, Beryl · Master Georgie
• Baker, Keith · Inheritance
• Banks, Iain · A Song of Stone
• Barrett, Andrea · Voyage of the Narwhal
• Barthelme, Frederick · Bob the Gambler
• Block, Valerie · Was It Something I Said?
• Bradshaw, Gillian · Island of Ghosts
• Cameron, Peter · Andorra *
• Carey, Peter · Jack Maggs *
• Carroll, Jonathan · Kissing the Beehive
• Chadwick, Elizabeth · The Champion
• Coburn, Andrew · Birthright
• Cook, Thomas H. · Instruments of Night
• Cooley, Martha · The Archivist
• Cornwell, Bernard · Excalibur *
• Davis-Goff, Annabel · The Dower House
• Dietrich, William · Ice reich
• Egan, Greg · Diaspora (SF)
• Erdrich, Louise · The Antelope Wife *
• Estleman, Loren · Journey of the Dead
• Fergus, Jim · One Thousand White Women
• Finder, Joseph · High Crimes
• Folsom, Allan · Day of Confidence †
• Gautreaux, Tim · The Next Step in the Dance
• Genberg, Ira · Reckless Homicide
• Goodman, Allegra · Kaaterskill Falls
• Haig, Kathryn · Apple Blossom Time
• Harrison, Jim · The Road Home
• Hellenga, Robert · The Fall of a Sparrow
• Hornby, Nick · About a Boy *
• Howatch, Susan · The Wonder Worker
• Huth, Angela · Wives of the fishermen *
• Jacobs, Harvey · American Goliath
• Janes, J. Robert · Salamander (M)
• Jennings, Maureen · Except the Dying (M)
• Kadare, Ismail · The Three-arched Bridge
• Kaplan, James · Two Guys from Verona
• Kingsolver, Barbara · The Poisonwood Bible
• Levy, JoAnn · Daughter of Joy
• Manley, Frank · The Cockfighter
• McCaig, Donald · Jacob’s Ladder
• McCann, Colum · This Side of Brightness
• McDermott, Alice · Charming Billy
• Moore, Brian · The Magician’s Wife *
• Morton, Brian · Starting Out in the Evening *
• Munro, Alice · The Love of a Good Woman (SS)
• Oz, Amos · Panther in the Basement
• Ozeki, Ruth L. · My Year of Meats
• Peters, Ralph · The Devil’s Garden
• Powers, Richard · Gain
• Price, Richard · Freedomland †
• Ragan, Naomi · The Ghost of Hannah Mendes
• Reich, Christopher · Numbered Account * †
• Reiken, Frederick · The Odd Sea
• Robinson, Roxana · This is My Daughter
• Senna, Danzy · Caucasia
• Seymour, Gerald · The Killing Ground *
• Silverberg, Robert · The Alien Years (SF)
• Stone, Robert · Damascus Gate
• Trevanian · Incident at Twenty-Mile
• Tyler, Anne · A Patchwork Planet * †
• Urquhart, Jane · The Underpainter
• Vanderhaeghe, Guy · The Englishman’s Boy
• Willett, Sabin · The Betrayal †
• Willis, Connie · To Say Nothing of the Dog (SF)
• Wilson, A.N. · Dream Children
• Wilson, F. Paul · Legacies
• Wolfe, Tom · A Man in Full
• Zabor, Rafi · The Bear Comes Home
• Zimler, Richard · The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon