American Book Awards
1980 - 1989
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American Book Awards 1990 - 1999
1989 |
ABA Award | Eva Luna | Isabel Allende | |
| ABA Award | Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. | Frank Chin | ||
| ABA Award | Homemade Love | J. California Cooper | ||
| ABA Award | Columbia Literary History of the United States | edited by Emory Elliott | ||
| ABA Award | The Exiles of Erin: 19th Century Irish American Fiction | Charles Fanning | ||
| ABA Award | Memory of Fire | Eduardo Galeano | ||
| ABA Award | The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of Afro-American Literary Criticism | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | ||
| ABA Award | The Right Thing to Do | Josephine Gattuso Hendin | ||
| ABA Award | Repairing America | William Hohri | ||
| ABA Award | Wode Shuofa (My Way of Speaking) | Carolyn Lau | ||
| ABA Award | A Burst of Light | Audre Lorde | ||
| ABA Award | Way | Leslie Scalapino | ||
| ABA Award | Stone's Throw | Jennifer Stone | ||
| ABA Award | Floating the River in Melancholy | Shuntaro Tanikawa | ||
| ABA Award | From the Pyramids to the Projects: Poems of Genocide and Resistance | Askia Muhammed Toure | ||
| ABA Award | The Ultraviolet Sky | Alma Luz Villanueve | ||
1988 |
ABA Award | Martin and Meditations on the South Valley | Jimmy Santiago Baca | |
| ABA Award | The Long Shadow of Little Rock | Daisy Bates | ||
| ABA Award | Russia and the Negro: Blacks in Russian History and Thought | Allison Blakely | ||
| ABA Award | The Reckoning | David Halberstam | ||
| ABA Award | Songs of Gold Mountain | Marlon Horn | ||
| ABA Award | The Boys of Bensonhurst | Salvatore La Puma | ||
| ABA Award | Expounding the Doubtful Points | Wing Tek Lum | ||
| ABA Award | Beloved | Toni Morrison | ||
| ABA Award | The Collected Poems of Charles Olson | Charles Olson | ||
| ABA Award | Thirsting for Peace in a Raging Century: Poems 1961-1985 | Edward Sanders | ||
| ABA Award | Tight Spaces | Kesho Scott, Cherry Muhanji & Egyirba High | ||
| ABA Award | Down and In | Ronald Sukenick | ||
| ABA Award | Griever: An American Monkey King in China | Gerald Vizenor | ||
| ABA Award | The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow | Opal Whiteley | ||
1987 |
ABA Award | SIN | Ai | |
| ABA Award | Liberazione della Dona: Feminism in Italy | Lucia Chiavola Birnbaum | ||
| ABA Award | Confessions of Madame Psyche | Dorothy Bryant | ||
| ABA Award | The Mixquiahuala Letters | Ana Castillo | ||
| ABA Award | Ready From Within | Septima Clark | ||
| ABA Award | Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker | Gary Giddins | ||
| ABA Award | Face Games | Juan Felipe Herrera | ||
| ABA Award | The Essential Etheridge Knight | Etheridge Knight | ||
| ABA Award | Practicing Angels, A Contemporary Anthology of San Francisco Bay Area Poetry | edited by Michael Mayo | ||
| ABA Award | Portrait of a Little Boy in Darkness | Daniel McGuire | ||
| ABA Award | Mama | Terry McMillan | ||
| ABA Award | American Splendor | Harvey Pekar | ||
| ABA Award | Selected Poems, 1958-1984 | John Wieners | ||
| ABA Award | Fools Crow | James Welch | ||
| ABA Award | Circumnavigations | Cyn Zarco | ||
1986 |
ABA Award | Time's Now | Miguel Algarin | |
| ABA Award | The Dream Book: An Anthology of Writing by Italian American Women | edited by Helen Barolini | ||
| ABA Award | A Daughter of the Nobility | Natasha Borovsky | ||
| ABA Award | Smiles on Washington Square | Raymond Federman | ||
| ABA Award | Seeing Through the Sun | Linda Hogan | ||
| ABA Award | My Emily Dickinson | Susan Howe | ||
| ABA Award | I Hear You Knockin' | Jeff Hannusch (a.k.a. Almost Slim) | ||
| ABA Award | This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color | edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua | ||
| ABA Award | Yokohama, California | Toshio Mori | ||
| ABA Award | The Sun Is Not Merciful | Anna Lee Walters | ||
| ABA Award | Irish Musicians/American Friends | Terence Winch | ||
1985 |
ABA Award | The House on Mango Street | Sandra Cisneros | |
| ABA Award | Ground Work: Before the War | Robert Duncan | ||
| ABA Award | Love Medicine | Louise Erdich | ||
| ABA Award | Justice at War | Peter Irons | ||
| ABA Award | Solo in the Box Car, Third Floor E | Angela Jackson | ||
| ABA Award | Say Ray | Ron Jones | ||
| ABA Award | Queen of the Ebony Aisles | Colleen J. McElroy | ||
| ABA Award | Poets Behind Barbed Wire | edited and translated by Jiro Nakano and Kay Nakano | ||
| ABA Award | Round Valley Songs | William Oandasan | ||
| ABA Award | Amelia Earhart (AE) | Maureen Owen | ||
| ABA Award | Homegirls and Handgrenades | Sonia Sanchez | ||
| ABA Award | At Seventy: A Journal | May Sarton | ||
| ABA Award | Living Up the Street | Gary Soto | ||
| ABA Award | Genth's Photographs of San Francisco's Old Chinatown | Kohn Kuo Wei Tchen | ||
1984 |
ABA Award | Confirmation: An Anthology of African-American Women | Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka | |
| ABA Award | The Heat Bird | Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | ||
| ABA Award | Days Without Weather | Cecil Brown | ||
| ABA Award | Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Poets | Joseph Bruchac | ||
| ABA Award | A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches | Jesus Colon | ||
| ABA Award | O Albany | William Kennedy | ||
| ABA Award | The Mama Poems | Maurice Kenny | ||
| ABA Award | Naked in Deccan | Vankatesh Kulkarni | ||
| ABA Award | Praisesong for the Window | Paule Marshall | ||
| ABA Award | Pie-Biter | illustrated by Ruthanne Lum McCunn and You-shan Tang, translated by Ellen Lai-shan Yeung | ||
| ABA Award | Echoes Inside the Labyrinth | Thomas McGrath | ||
| ABA Award | Citizen 13660 | Mine Okubo | ||
| ABA Award | The Captive Soul of the Messiah: New Tales About Red Nachman | Howard Schwartz | ||
| ABA Award | Axe Handles | Gary Snyder | ||
1983 |
ABA Award | Not By the Sword | Nash Candelaria | |
| ABA Award | Black Women Novelists | Barbara Christian | ||
| ABA Award | Queen of Wands | Judy Grahn | ||
| ABA Award | Lost Highway | Peter Guralnick | ||
| ABA Award | Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions | Jessica Hagedorn | ||
| ABA Award | Californians | James D. Houston | ||
| ABA Award | Obasan | Joy Kogawa | ||
| ABA Award | Chinese Folk Poetry | Cecilia Liang | ||
| ABA Award | An Duanaire | Sean O'Tuama and Thomas Kinsella | ||
| ABA Award | The Legend of Food Mountain | Harriet Rohmer | ||
| ABA Award | !Click Song | John A. Williams | ||
| ABA Award | Thirty An' Seen a Lot | Evangelina Vigil | ||
1982 |
ABA Award | The Book of Jamaica | Russell Banks | |
| ABA Award | Emplumada | Lorna Dee Cervantes | ||
| ABA Award | Chickencoop Chinaman and Year of the Dragon | Frank Chin | ||
| ABA Award | Enclave | Tato Laviera | ||
| ABA Award | Collected Poems | E.L. Mayo | ||
| ABA Award | Songs for the Harvester of Dreams | Duane Niatum | ||
| ABA Award | This Passover or Next I Will Never Be in Jerusalem | Hilton Obenzinger | ||
| ABA Award | Sangre | Leroy Quintana | ||
| ABA Award | Pre-Faces & Other Writings | Jerome Rothenberg | ||
| ABA Award | Shino Suite | Ronald Tanaka | ||
| ABA Award | Marked by Fire | Joyce Carol Thomas | ||
| ABA Award | Bodies & Soul | Al Young | ||
| ABA Award | Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island 1910- 1949 | edited by Him Mark Lai, Genny Lim, and Judy Yung | ||
1981 |
ABA Award | Turn Again to Me & Other Poems | Helen Adams | |
| ABA Award | On Call | Miguel Alarin | ||
| ABA Award | The Shameless Hussy | alta | ||
| ABA Award | The Salt Eaters | Toni Cade Bambara | ||
| ABA Award | Back Then Tomorrow | Peter Blue Cloud | ||
| ABA Award | The Choice | Rose Drachler | ||
| ABA Award | The Liberties | Susan Howe | ||
| ABA Award | In Time | Robert Kelly | ||
| ABA Award | Songs for Jadina | Alan Lau | ||
| ABA Award | Traveling Light | Lionel Mitchell | ||
| ABA Award | Felita | Nicholasa Mohr | ||
| ABA Award | A Scent of Apples | Ben Santos | ||
1980 |
ABA Award | Tortuga | Rudolfo Anaya | |
| ABA Award | Random Possession | Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | ||
| ABA Award | Mouth on Paper | Jayne Cortez | ||
| ABA Award | Hello, La Jolla | Ed Dorn | ||
| ABA Award | All I'm Asking for is My Body | Milton Murayama | ||
| ABA Award | Ceremony | Leslie Silko | ||
| ABA Award | Snake-Back Solos | Quincy Troupe | ||
| ABA Award | Future Preconditional | Douglas Woolf | ||
