1997
- Barney's Version
- The God of Small Things
- The Soul Selects Her Own Society
- Blue Mars
- Blood of the Dragon
- Bicycle Repairman
- Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
- No Award
- Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer
- Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris
- Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
- Alive Together: New and Selected Poems
- Women in Their Beds
- The Moon and the Sun
- The Flowers of Aulit Prison
- Sister Emily’s Lightship
- Abandon in Place
- Ocean of Words