American Book Awards
1990 - 1999
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American Book Awards 1980 - 1989
1999 |
ABA Award | The Farming of Bones | Edwidge Danticat |
| ABA Award | Right Here, Right Now | Trey Ellis | |
| ABA Award | The Floating Borderlands | Lauro Flores | |
| ABA Award | What Book!? | Gary Gach | |
| ABA Award | Hip Hop America | Nelson George | |
| ABA Award | The Last Paradise | James Houston | |
| ABA Award | Ghost Dancing | Anna Linzer | |
| ABA Award | Transforming the Culture of Schools | Jerry Lipka | |
| ABA Award | Charming Billy | Alice McDermott | |
| ABA Award | The Freshower Cylinders | Speer Morgan | |
| ABA Award | The Men of Brewster Place | Gloria Naylor | |
| ABA Award | Salvation and Other Disasters | Josip Novakovich | |
| ABA Award | First Fish, First People | Judith Roche and Meg McHutchinson | |
| ABA Award | Sometimes the Soul | Gioia Timpanelli | |
| ABA Award | Survivor's Medicine | E. Donald Two-Rivers | |
| ABA Award | Nobody's Son | Luis Alberto Urrea | |
| ABA Award | Just My Soul Responding | Brian Ward | |
| Children's Literature | Home to Medicine Mountain | Chiori Santiagio and Judith Lowry | |
1998 |
ABA Award | On Native Ground | Jim Barnes |
| ABA Award | Bitter Grounds | Sandra Benitez | |
| ABA Award | Dog Road Woman | Allison Adelle Hedge Coke | |
| ABA Award | Blues Legacies and Black Feminism | Angela Davis | |
| ABA Award | Underworld | Don DeLillo | |
| ABA Award | The Birth of Bebop | Scott DeVeaux | |
| ABA Award | Comfort Woman | Nora Okja Keller | |
| ABA Award | The Undertaking | Thomas Lynch | |
| ABA Award | All Saints | Brenda Marie Osbey | |
| ABA Award | Love Like Gumbo | Nancy Rawles | |
| ABA Award | Safari West | John Williams | |
1997 |
ABA Award | Et tu…Raza | Alurista |
| ABA Award | The Post-Rapture Diner | Dorothy Barresi | |
| ABA Award | Black Intellectuals | William Banks | |
| ABA Award | Gospel Choirs | Derrick Bell | |
| ABA Award | Maker of Saints | Thulani Davis | |
| ABA Award | Derby Dugan's Depression Funnies | Tom DeHaven | |
| ABA Award | Imagine the Angels of Bread | Martin Espada | |
| ABA Award | Dreams of the Centaur | Monserrat Fontes | |
| ABA Award | The New World Border | Guillermo Gomez-Pena | |
| ABA Award | Race Traitor | Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey | |
| ABA Award | Women of the Beat Generation | Brenda Knight | |
| ABA Award | Among the White Moon Faces | Shirley Geok-lin Lim | |
| ABA Award | Contours of the Heart | Sunaina Maira and Rajini Srikanth | |
| ABA Award | Nightland | Louis Owens | |
1996 |
ABA Award | Reservation Blues | Sherman Alexie |
| ABA Award | The Physician of London | Stephanie Cowell | |
| ABA Award | Arranged Marriage | Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni | |
| ABA Award | Longing | Maria Espinosa | |
| ABA Award | The Tunnel | William Gass | |
| ABA Award | The Unbearable Heart | Kimiko Hahn | |
| ABA Award | Girl Hurt | E. J. Miller Laino | |
| ABA Award | Native Speaker | Chang-rae Lee | |
| ABA Award | Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong | James W. Loewen | |
| ABA Award | One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America | Glenn C. Loury | |
| ABA Award | Woman in Amber: Healing the Trauma of War and Exile | Agate Nesaule | |
| ABA Award | Palestine | Joe Sacco | |
| ABA Award | Sounding Off! Music as Subversion/Resistance/Revolution, | Ron Sakolsky and Fred Wei-han Ho, editors | |
| ABA Award | Archipelago | Arthur Sze | |
| ABA Award | Astoria | Robert Viscusi | |
1995 |
ABA Award | Life Sentences: Writers, Artists, and AIDS | Thomas Avena |
| ABA Award | Brotherman: The Odyssey of Black Men in America | Herb Boyd and Robert L. Allen | |
| ABA Award | Face of an Angel | Denise Chavez | |
| ABA Award | Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South | John Egerton | |
| ABA Award | The Light People | Gordon Henry, Jr. | |
| ABA Award | The Winged Seed: A Remembrance | Li-Young Lee | |
| ABA Award | I Am Becoming the Woman I've Wanted | Sandra Haldeman Martz | |
| ABA Award | Green Fires: Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest | Marnie Mueller | |
| ABA Award | Banished Children of Eve | Peter Quinn | |
| ABA Award | Rocking the Babies | Linda Raymond | |
| ABA Award | Spidertown | Abraham Rodriguez, Jr. | |
| ABA Award | Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America | Tricia Rose | |
| ABA Award | Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas | John Ross | |
| ABA Award | Crossing Ocean Parkway: Readings by an Italian American Daughter | Marianna De Marco Torgovnick | |
1994 |
ABA Award | Aloud! Voices from the Nuyorican Poets' Café | edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman |
| ABA Award | Flood! A Novel in Pictures | Eric Drooker | |
| ABA Award | Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness | Paul Gilroy | |
| ABA Award | Daughters of Feminists | Rose Glickman | |
| ABA Award | Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter | Janet Campbell Hale | |
| ABA Award | Legends from Camp | Lawson Inada | |
| ABA Award | In Search of Bernabé | Graciela Limón | |
| ABA Award | Economic Empowerment Through the Church | Gregory J. Reed | |
| ABA Award | Benedetta in Guysterland | Giose Rimanelli | |
| ABA Award | A Different Mirror: A Muliticultural History of America | Ronald Takaki | |
| ABA Award | Scenes from the Movie GIANT | Tino Villanueva | |
| ABA Award | WOOD-HOOPOE Willie | Virginia Kroll, illustrated by Katherine Roundtree | |
| ABA Award | Volunteered Slavery: My Authentic Negro Experience | Jill Nelson | |
1993 |
ABA Award | Snake Poems: An Aztec Invocation | Francisco X. Abarc¢u |
| ABA Award | The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley | Jack Beatty | |
| ABA Award | Paris Connections: African-American Artists in Paris | Asake Bomani and Belvie Rooks | |
| ABA Award | Elevating the Game: Black Men and Basketball | Nelson George | |
| ABA Award | The Unquiet Earth | Denise Giardina | |
| ABA Award | Claiming Breath | Diane Glancy | |
| ABA Award | Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education | Gerald Graff | |
| ABA Award | We Gave Away a Fortune: Stories of People Who Have Devoted Themselves and Their Wealth to Peace, Justice and the Environment | Christopher Mogil and Anne Slepian, with Peter Woodrow | |
| ABA Award | Neets'aii Gwiindaii: Living in the Chandalar Country | Katherine Peter | |
| ABA Award | The History of Home | Leroy Quintana | |
| ABA Award | The Eye in the Ceiling: Selected Poems | Eugene Redmond | |
| ABA Award | Twice Blessed, | Ninotchka Rosca | |
| ABA Award | Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism: Volume I:Prophetic Thought in Post- Modern Times; Volume II: Prophetic Reflections: Notes on Race and Power in America | Cornel West | |
1992 |
ABA Award | Jessie and Jesus | Raymond Andrews |
| ABA Award | Cousin Claire | Raymond Andrews | |
| ABA Award | Cebu | Peter Bacho | |
| ABA Award | Black Thunder: An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama | William B. Branch | |
| ABA Award | Madam C.J. Walker | A'Lelia Perry Bundles | |
| ABA Award | Undocumented Love | José Antonio Burciaga | |
| ABA Award | Belonging to the Universe | Fritjof Capra and David Steindl-Rast with Thomas Capra | |
| ABA Award | Hansberry's Drama: Commitment Amid Complexity | Steven Carter | |
| ABA Award | In the Realm of a Dying Emperor | Norma Field | |
| ABA Award | The Unknown Internment: An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II | Stephen Fox | |
| ABA Award | Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature | Donna J. Haraway | |
| ABA Award | A Dena'ina Legacy, K'tl'egh'i Sukdu: The Collected Writings of Peter Kalifornsky | edited by James Kari and Alan Boraas | |
| ABA Award | The Last Fine Time | Verlyn Klinkenborg | |
| ABA Award | Calendar of Dust | Benjamin Alire Sáenz | |
| ABA Award | Beyond Deserving | Sandra Scofield | |
| ABA Award | Maus: A Survivor's Tale, I: My Father Bleeds History; II: And Here My Troubles Began | Art Speigelman | |
| ABA Award | To the American Indian: Reminscences of a Yurok Woman | Lucy Thompson (Che- ne-wah Weitch-ah-wah) | |
| ABA Award | The Journey | Sheila Hamanaka | |
| ABA Award | Voices of the Self: A Study of Language | Keith Gilyard | |
1991 |
ABA Award | Homesick: New & Selected Stories | Lucia Berlin |
| ABA Award | Terra Firma | Thomas Centolella | |
| ABA Award | Lakota Woman | Mary Crow Dog with Richard Erdoes | |
| ABA Award | Haa Tuwunaagu Yis, for Healing Our Spirit: Tlingit Oratory | edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer | |
| ABA Award | Dogeaters | Jessica Hagedorn | |
| ABA Award | In Mad Love and War | Joy Harjo | |
| ABA Award | Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics | bell hooks | |
| ABA Award | Looking for Home: Women Writing About Exile | edited by Deborah Keenan and Roseann Lloyd | |
| ABA Award | Harvest Song | Meridel Le Sueur | |
| ABA Award | Heroism in the New Black Poetry | D.H. Melhem | |
| ABA Award | Overtime: Punchin' Out with the Mill Hunk Herald | The Mill Hunk Herald | |
| ABA Award | The Art and Imagination of Langston Hughes | R. Baxter Miller | |
| ABA Award | Southern Front | Alejandro Murguia | |
| ABA Award | Soldados: Chicanos in Vietnam | edited by Charley Trujillo | |
| ABA Award | Through the Arc of the Rain Forest | Karen Tei Tamashita | |
| ABA Award | Phildelphia Fire | John Edgar Wideman | |
| ABA Award | Black Robes, White Justice | Bruce Wright | |
1990 |
ABA Award | Spider Woman's Granddaughters: Traditional Tales and Contemporary Writing by Native American Women | Paula Gunn Allen |
| ABA Award | Black Athena, Afroasiatic Roots of Classical Civilizations: Volume 1, The Fabrication of Ancient Greece, 1785-1985 | Martin Bernal | |
| ABA Award | Invocation L.A.: Urban Multicultural Poetry | Michelle T. Clinton, Sesshu Foster, and Naomi Quinonez | |
| ABA Award | Miles: The Autobiography | Miles Davis with Quincy Troupe | |
| ABA Award | Hearts of Sorrow: Vietnamese-American Lives | James M. Freeman | |
| ABA Award | Women on War (Essential Voices for the Nuclear Age) | Daniela Gioseffi | |
| ABA Award | Vivar a Hosto | Jose Emilio Gonzalez | |
| ABA Award | Italian Days | Barbara Grizzuti Harrison | |
| ABA Award | Symbolic Immmortality: The Tlingit Potlatch of the 19th Century | Sergei Kan | |
| ABA Award | People Who Led to My Plays | Adrienne Kennedy | |
| ABA Award | The Forbidden Stitch: An Asian American Women's anthology | edited by Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Mayumi Tsutakawa, and Margarita Donnelly | |
| ABA Award | Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China | Hualing Nieh | |
| ABA Award | Every Goodbye Ain't Gone: Family Portraits and Personal Escapades | Itabari Njeri | |
| ABA Award | The Light at the End of the Bog | John Norton | |
| ABA Award | Romans and Blacks | Lloyd A. Thompson | |
| ABA Award | The Harlem Fox, J. Raymond James and Tammany, 1920-1970 | John C. Walter | |
| ABA Award | Hand into Stone | Elizabeth Woody |
