Home > 1993 in literature

1 Events

• Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
• November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.

2 New Books

• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years - Sue Townsend
• Barnyard Dance - Sandra Boynton
• The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
• The Client - John Grisham
• Complicity - Iain Banks
• The EmigrantsThe Emigrants or Utvandrarna is a 1971 film which tells the story of a Swedish couple who emigrate to 19th century America. It stars Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Eddie Axberg, Sven-Olof Bern, Aina Alfredsson, Allan Edwall, Monica Zetterlund and Pierre Lind - W.G. Sebald
• The GiverThe Giver ( 1993) by Lois Lowry is a novel set in a possible future society which first seems to be a utopia and gradually appears more and more dystopian. Written in simple yet evocative language, the novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth y - Lois LowryLois Lowry (born March 20, 1937) is a children's author who has written many popular books. One of her books, The Giver is controversial and has been banned in some schools. Books by Lowry The Giver winner of the 1994 Newbery Medal Number the Stars winner
• Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
• The Hope - Herman WoukHerman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is an bestselling American author, with a number of notable novels to his credit, including The Caine Mutiny The Winds of War and War and Remembrance''. He was born in New York City, into a Jewish family that had immigrated
• In the Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif
• Lasher - Anne RiceAnne Rice (born Howard Allen O'Brien on October 4, 1941), the second daughter of an Irish Catholic family, is an author of horror/fantasy stories, often about vampires, mummies and witches. Her works have been a major influence on the Goth youth subcultur
• Like Water for ChocolateLike Water for Chocolate was a successful book by Laura Esquivel, a Mexican author, in 1992. A movie based on the novel was released in 1993. Originally published as Como agua para chocolate in Spanish. In a style that is epic in scope yet intensely perso - Laura Esquivel
• Losing Eddie - Deborah Joy Corey
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - John Gray
• Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
• Moving Mars - Greg Bear
• The Night Manager - John le Carré
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
• Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale - Miranda Seymour
• Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
• Le Rocher de Tanios - Amin Maalouf
• The Scorpio Illusion - Robert Ludlum
• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Tariq Ali
• Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
• Too Big To Fail - Walter Stewart
• Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
• The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) - Esther Delisle
• Vanished - Danielle Steel
• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions - Martin Amis
• Without Remorse - Tom Clancy