A Century of Books X
By the Decade: 1990-1990

Most titles will be found in the fiction section under the author’s last name. When that is not the case, the call number is noted.

1990:
Near Changes: Poems, Mona Van Duyn  811.54 VAN

The Piano Lesson, August Wilson  812.54 WIL

Possession: A Romance, A.S. Byatt

Postmortem, Patricia Daniels Cornwell

Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton

Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley

The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction, Tim O’Brien

1991:
Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government, P.J. O’Rourke  320.9730207 ORO

An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems, 1988-1991,
Adrienne Cecile Rich  811.54 RIC

Lost in Yonkers, Neil Simon  812.54 SIM

Circle of Friends, Maeve Binchy

Outlander, Diana Gabaldon

The Firm, John Grisham

Native Tongue, Carl Hiaasen

A Thousand Acres, Jane Smiley

1992:
Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America,
Garry Wills  973.7092 WIL

She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb

Bootlegger’s Daughter, Margaret Maron

Waiting to Exhale, Terry McMillan

The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje

Strip Jack, Ian Rankin

Red Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson

The Bridges of Madison County, Robert James Waller

Doomsday Book, Connie Willis

1993:
Track of the Cat, Nevada Barr

The Black Ice, Michael Connelly

A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines

Hotel Pastis: A Novel of Provence, Peter Mayle

The Shipping News, Annie Proulx

The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields

1994:
Three Tall Women: A Play in Two Acts, Edward Albee  812.54 ALB

Colored People: A Memoir, Henry Louis Gates  B Gates

The Alienist, Caleb Carr

Breath, Eyes, Memory, Edwidge Danticat

One True Thing, Anna Quindlen

Night Prey, John Sandford

The Gift, Danielle Steel

1995:
God: A Biography, Jack Miles  231 MIL

Independence Day, Richard Ford

Come to Grief, Dick Francis

Finding Moon, Tony Hillerman

Night Sins, Tami Hoag

Left Behind: A Novel of the Earth’s Last Days, Tim F. LaHaye

Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Gregory Maguire

Kiss the Girls, James Patterson

Coming Home, Rosamunde Pilcher

1996:
Moonlight Becomes You, Mary Higgins Clark

The Chatham School Affair, Thomas H. Cook

Shock Wave, Clive Cussler

Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding

Desperation, Stephen King

How Stella Got Her Groove Back, Terry McMillan

1997:
Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson, Mitch Albom 378.12092 ALB

Rent, Jonathan Larson  OVERSIZE 782.14 LAR

Black Zodiac, Charles Wright  811.54 WRI

Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir, Dominick Dunne

Lucky You, Carl Hiaasen

Survival of the Fittest, Jonathan Kellerman

Small Vices, Robert B. Parker

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, J.K. Rowling

1998:
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, Philip Gourevitch  364.151 GOU

Sunset Limited, James Lee Burke

The Hours, Michael Cunningham

A Widow for One Year, John Irving

The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver

Where Serpents Lie, T. Jefferson Parker

Black and Blue, Anna Quindlen

A Man in Full, Tom Wolfe

1999:
Blizzard of One: Poems, Mark Strand  811.54 STR

Traitor’s Sun: A Novel of Darkover, Marion Zimmer Bradley

Garden of Evil: A Britt Montero Mystery, Edna Buchanan

We’ll Meet Again, Mary Higgins Clark

Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee (first American edition)

White Oleander, Janet Fitch

O Jerusalem: A Mary Russell Novel, Laurie R. King

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories, Jhumpa Lahiri

Hard Time: A V.I. Warshawski Novel, Sara Paretsky

St. Charles Public Library
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