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Many thanks are owed to the authors whose work is the inspiration for our success.
1998 Sleepers
The books that came out of nowhere
to become something special:
Sugar Busters
H. Leighton Steward;
Morrison C. Bethea, MD;
Sam S. Andrews, MD; &
Luis A. Balart, MD
Ballantine (214,569)
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Helen Fielding
Viking (69,665)
A Walk in the Woods
Bill Bryson
Broadway (61,354)
Blind Man’s Bluff
Sherry Sontag &
Christopher Drew with
Annette Lawrence Drew
Public Affairs (60,895)
The Professor and the Madman
Simon Winchester
HarperCollins (37,364)
We Interrupt This Broadcast
Joe Garner
Sourcebooks (35,464)
Welcome to the World,
Baby Girl
Fannie Flagg
Random House (32,969)
Ship of Gold in the
Deep Blue Sea
By Gary Kinder
Grove Atlantic (20,114)
Harry Potter and the
Sorcerer’s Stone
By JK Rowling
Scholastic (15,407)
An Instance of the Fingerpost
By Iain Pears
Riverhead (12,979)
1998 Keepers
The year’s most notable books:
1998 Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: American Pastoral
Philip Roth
Houghton Mifflin
History: Summer of the Gods:
The Scopes Trial and
America’s Continuing Debate
Over Science and Religion
Edward J. Larson
Basic Books
Biography: Personal History
Katharine Graham
Knopf
Poetry: Black Zodiac
Charles Wright
Farrar Straus Giroux
General Nonfiction: Guns,
Germs, and Steel:
The Fates of Human Societies
Jared M. Diamond
WW Norton
1998 National Book Awards
Fiction: Charming Billy
Alice McDermott
Farrar Straus Giroux
Nonfiction: Slaves in the Family
Edward Ball
Farrar Straus Giroux
Young People’s Literature: Holes
Louis Sachar
Farrar Straus Giroux
Poetry: This Time
Gerald Stern
WW Norton
Booker Prize
Amsterdam
Ian McEwan
Doubleday
1998 National Book Critics
Circle Awards
Fiction: The Love of a
Good Woman
Alice Munro
Knopf
General Nonfiction: We Wish To
Inform You That Tomorrow We
Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
Farrar Straus Giroux
Biography: A Beautiful Mind
Sylvia Nasar
Simon & Schuster
Criticism: Visions of Jazz
Gary Giddins
Oxford University Press
Poetry: The Bird Catcher
Marie Ponsot
Knopf
1998 Nobel Prize for
Literature
José Saramago
1998 Tanning Prize
AR Ammons
1998 Edgar Allan Poe Award
Cimarron Rose
James Lee Burke
Hyperion
1998 Hugo Award
Forever Peace
Joe Haldeman
Ace
1998 Barnes & Noble
Discover Great New
Writers Award
Rose’s Garden
Carrie Brown
Algonquin
1998 Barnes & Noble
Maiden Voyage Award
Rewind
Terry England
Avon
CHILDREN’S BOOK AWARDS
Caldecott Medal
Illustrator: Mary Azarian
Snowflake Bentley
Houghton Mifflin
Newbery Medal
Holes
Louis Sachar
Farrar Straus Giroux
Coretta Scott King Awards
Author: Angela Johnson
Heaven
Simon & Schuster
Illustrator: Michele Wood
I See the Rhythm
Children’s Book Press