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1998

winners

Discover honored books by category:

Fiction Nonfiction Poetry Young People's Literature

WINNER

Charming Billy

Alice McDermott

FINALISTS

Kaaterskill Falls

Allegra Goodman

The Healing

Gayl Jones

Damascus Gate

Robert Stone

A Man in Full

Tom Wolfe

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