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Books of the 1990s

Literary fiction and crime fiction shared a golden age. Pullman began His Dark Materials; Ondaatje and Atwood; the Booker Prize became global news. 163 titles in the catalogue from this decade.

The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien · 1990 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Possession A.S. Byatt · 1990 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
The Buddha of Suburbia Hanif Kureishi · 1990 Essential Read Get it on Amazon →
Flow Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi · 1990 Essential Read See details →
Maus Art Spiegelman · 1991 Editor's Choice See details →
Sophie's World Jostein Gaarder · 1991 Editor's Choice See details →
The Famished Road Ben Okri · 1991 Essential Read See details →
The Secret History Donna Tartt · 1992 Essential Read See details →
The Children of Men P.D. James · 1992 Essential Read See details →
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje · 1992 Essential Read See details →
Jesus' Son Denis Johnson · 1992 Essential Read See details →
Never Mind Edward St Aubyn · 1992 Essential Read See details →
Birdsong Sebastian Faulks · 1993 Essential Read See details →
Trainspotting Irvine Welsh · 1993 Essential Read See details →
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields · 1993 Essential Read See details →
The Shipping News Annie Proulx · 1993 Essential Read See details →
Paradise Abdulrazak Gurnah · 1994 Essential Read See details →
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami · 1994 Essential Read See details →
In the Time of the Butterflies Julia Alvarez · 1994 Essential Read See details →
Breath Eyes Memory Edwidge Danticat · 1994 Essential Read See details →
Northern Lights Philip Pullman · 1995 Essential Read See details →
High Fidelity Nick Hornby · 1995 Essential Read See details →
The Reader Bernhard Schlink · 1995 Essential Read See details →
Blindness Jose Saramago · 1995 Essential Read See details →
A Game of Thrones George R.R. Martin · 1996 Essential Read See details →
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood · 1996 Essential Read See details →
Bridget Jones Diary Helen Fielding · 1996 Essential Read See details →
The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy · 1997 Essential Read See details →
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J.K. Rowling · 1997 Essential Read See details →
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Power of Now Eckhart Tolle · 1997 Editor's Choice See details →
American Pastoral Philip Roth · 1997 Essential Read See details →
Enduring Love Ian McEwan · 1997 Essential Read See details →
Brokeback Mountain Annie Proulx · 1997 Essential Read See details →
The Subtle Knife Philip Pullman · 1997 Essential Read See details →
A Walk in the Woods Bill Bryson · 1998 Editor's Choice See details →
My Name Is Red Orhan Pamuk · 1998 Essential Read See details →
About a Boy Nick Hornby · 1998 Essential Read See details →
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver · 1998 Essential Read See details →
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri · 1999 Editor's Choice See details →
Waiting Ha Jin · 1999 Essential Read See details →
Good Omens Neil Gaiman · 1990 Recommended See details →
Friday Night Lights H.G. Bissinger · 1990 Recommended See details →
The Eye of the World Robert Jordan · 1990 Recommended See details →
Cognitive psychology Michael W. Eysenck · 1990 Recommended See details →
The creative mind Margaret A. Boden · 1990 Recommended See details →
The most dangerous game Richard Connell · 1990 Recommended See details →
Exercise physiology Scott K. Powers · 1990 Recommended See details →
Maniac Magee Jerry Spinelli · 1990 Recommended See details →
Outlander Diana Gabaldon · 1991 Recommended See details →
Regeneration Pat Barker · 1991 Recommended See details →
Rising Sun Michael Crichton · 1991 Recommended See details →
The rituals of dinner Margaret Visser · 1991 Recommended See details →
Bully for Brontosaurus Stephen Jay Gould · 1991 Recommended See details →
Neither here nor there Bill Bryson · 1991 Recommended See details →
Homicide David Simon · 1991 Recommended See details →
Sofies verden Jostein Gaarder · 1991 Recommended See details →
The museum experience revisited John H. Falk · 1992 Recommended See details →
Jiu guo Mo Yan · 1992 Recommended See details →
Lunch Denise Fleming · 1992 Recommended See details →
Small Gods Terry Pratchett · 1992 Recommended See details →
Gerald's Game Stephen King · 1992 Recommended See details →
Mothers and other clowns Magdalene Redekop · 1992 Recommended See details →
The Diversity of Life Edward Osborne Wilson · 1992 Recommended See details →
Your college experience John N. Gardner · 1992 Recommended See details →
Fever Pitch Nick Hornby · 1992 Recommended See details →
Monster Blood Robert Lawrence Stine · 1992 Recommended See details →
Letters from Rifka Karen Hesse · 1992 Recommended See details →
Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler · 1993 Recommended See details →
The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski · 1993 Recommended See details →
Understanding Comics Scott McCloud · 1993 Recommended See details →
A History of God Karen Armstrong · 1993 Recommended See details →
The Giver Lois Lowry · 1993 Recommended See details →
Lituma en los Andes Mario Vargas Llosa · 1993 Recommended See details →
Eight Little Piggies Stephen Jay Gould · 1993 Recommended See details →
How computers work Ron White · 1993 Recommended See details →
On becoming babywise Gary Ezzo · 1993 Recommended See details →
Bodies that matter Judith Butler · 1993 Recommended See details →
The Seduction of the Mediterranean Robert Aldrich · 1993 Recommended See details →
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil John Berendt · 1994 Recommended See details →
Captain Corelli's Mandolin Louis de Bernières · 1994 Recommended See details →
Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela · 1994 Recommended See details →
A cognitive psychology of mass communication Richard Jackson Harris · 1994 Recommended See details →
Guess How Much I Love You Sam McBratney · 1994 Recommended See details →
The lost boy David J. Pelzer · 1994 Recommended See details →
The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett · 1994 Recommended See details →
Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb · 1995 Recommended See details →
Notes from a Small Island Bill Bryson · 1995 Recommended See details →
Bloodchild and other stories Octavia E. Butler · 1995 Recommended See details →
Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira José Saramago · 1995 Recommended See details →
Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake Barbara Park · 1995 Recommended See details →
The Last Straw Jeff Kinney · 1995 Recommended See details →
The X-Files Kevin J. Anderson · 1995 Recommended See details →
The Demon-Haunted World Carl Sagan · 1995 Recommended See details →
Battlefield of the Mind Joyce Meyer · 1995 Recommended See details →
Emotional Intelligence Daniel Goleman · 1995 Recommended See details →
Deal Breaker Harlan Coben · 1995 Recommended See details →
Football in Sun and Shadow Eduardo Galeano · 1995 Recommended See details →
Edith Wharton abroad Edith Wharton · 1995 Recommended See details →
Dead by Sunset Ann Rule · 1995 Recommended See details →
Mindhunter John E. Douglas · 1995 Recommended See details →
The rapist's wife Kathryn Casey · 1995 Recommended See details →
Sabriel Garth Nix · 1995 Recommended See details →
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell · 1996 Recommended See details →
Bridget Jones's Diary Helen Fielding · 1996 Recommended See details →
Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt · 1996 Recommended See details →
Into the Wild Jon Krakauer · 1996 Recommended See details →
Principles of Macroeconomics N. Gregory Mankiw · 1996 Recommended See details →
Ghosts of Fear Street - The Boy Who Ate Fear Street Robert Lawrence Stine · 1996 Recommended See details →
Servant of the Bones Anne Rice · 1996 Recommended See details →
Desperation Stephen King · 1996 Recommended See details →
A second chicken soup for the woman's soul Jack Canfield · 1996 Recommended See details →
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari Robin S. Sharma · 1996 Recommended See details →
Drop Shot Harlan Coben · 1996 Recommended See details →
Fade Away Harlan Coben · 1996 Recommended See details →
Golf for dummies Gary McCord · 1996 Recommended See details →
Introduction to sports biomechanics Roger Bartlett · 1996 Recommended See details →
The Visitor Katherine Applegate · 1996 Recommended See details →
The Monster of Florence Magdalen Nabb · 1996 Recommended See details →
The Innovator's Dilemma Clayton Christensen · 1997 Recommended See details →
Into Thin Air Jon Krakauer · 1997 Recommended See details →
Afrodita Isabel Allende · 1997 Recommended See details →
GTO Tohru Fujisawa · 1997 Recommended See details →
Billions and billions Carl Sagan · 1997 Recommended See details →
How the Mind Works Steven Pinker · 1997 Recommended See details →
Back Spin Harlan Coben · 1997 Recommended See details →
Weight training for dummies Liz Neporent · 1997 Recommended See details →
With Chatwin Susannah Clapp · 1997 Recommended See details →
The corner David Simon · 1997 Recommended See details →
Understanding Violence Elizabeth Kandel Englander · 1997 Recommended See details →
The Hours Michael Cunningham · 1998 Recommended See details →
Stalingrad Antony Beevor · 1998 Recommended See details →
A Clash of Kings George R. R. Martin · 1998 Recommended See details →
Among the Barons Margaret Peterson Haddix · 1998 Recommended See details →
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets J. K. Rowling · 1998 Recommended See details →
The year of eating dangerously Tom Parker-Bowles · 1998 Recommended See details →
Skipping Christmas John Grisham · 1998 Recommended See details →
The City of Ember (The First Book of Ember) Jeanne DuPrau · 1998 Recommended See details →
Prince Niccolò Machiavelli · 1998 Recommended See details →
Brown Girl in the Ring Nalo Hopkinson · 1998 Recommended See details →
Media & culture Richard Campbell · 1998 Recommended See details →
The 48 Laws of Power Robert Greene · 1998 Recommended See details →
Field of thirteen Dick Francis · 1998 Recommended See details →
One False Move Harlan Coben · 1998 Recommended See details →
Tom Clancy's Net Force Tom Clancy · 1998 Recommended See details →
Whistle! Daisuke Higuchi · 1998 Recommended See details →
Sir Vidia's shadow Paul Theroux · 1998 Recommended See details →
Sight for Sore Eyes, A Ruth Rendell · 1998 Recommended See details →
Stardust Neil Gaiman · 1999 Recommended See details →
The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky · 1999 Recommended See details →
No Logo Naomi Klein · 1999 Recommended See details →
Come to the Table Doris Christopher · 1999 Recommended See details →
Food, Morals and Meaning John Coveney · 1999 Recommended See details →
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs Irvine Welsh · 1999 Recommended See details →
I Have Landed Stephen Jay Gould · 1999 Recommended See details →
Nonviolent Communication Marshall B. Rosenberg · 1999 Recommended See details →
Words and rules Steven Pinker · 1999 Recommended See details →
Who Will Cry When You Die? Robin S. Sharma · 1999 Recommended See details →
The Final Detail Harlan Coben · 1999 Recommended See details →
In the forests of the night Amelia Atwater-Rhodes · 1999 Recommended See details →
Destination James Ellroy · 1999 Recommended See details →
Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer · 1999 Recommended See details →
Witch & wizard James Patterson · 1999 Recommended See details →

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