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1988

winners

Discover honored books by category:

Fiction Nonfiction

WINNER

Paris Trout

Pete Dexter

FINALISTS

Libra

Don DeLillo

Vanished

Mary McGarry Morris

Wheat That Springeth Green

James F. Powers

Breathing Lessons

Anne Tyler

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