Fiction 1989

Clive Barker – The Great and Secret Show

E. L. Doctorow - Billy Bathgate

John Grisham – A Time to Kill

John le Carré – The Russia House

Tom Clancy – Clear and Present Danger

Hanan al-Shaykh – Women of Sand and Myrrh

Martin Amis – London Fields

Piers Anthony – Total Recall

Larry Bond – Red Phoenix

Anthony Burgess - Any Old Iron

Nick Cave – And the Ass Saw the Angel

Mary Higgins Clark – While My Pretty One Sleeps

Hugh Cook – The Wicked and the Witless

Bernard Cornwell - Sharpe's Revenge and Sea Lord

Bryce Courtenay – The Power of One

Robert Crais - Stalking the Angel

Lindsey Davis – The Silver Pigs

Katherine Dunn – Geek Love

Umberto Eco – Foucault's Pendulum

George Alec Effinger – A Fire in the Sun

Ben Elton – Stark

Ken Follett – The Pillars of the Earth

Frederick Forsyth – The Negotiator

Gabriel García Márquez – The General in His Labyrinth

John Gardner - Licence to Kill and Win, Lose or Die

Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – The Conan Chronicles

John Irving – A Prayer for Owen Meany

Kazuo Ishiguro – The Remains of the Day

Hilary Mantel - Fludd

James A. Michener – Six Days in Havana

Bharati Mukherjee – Jasmine

Larry Niven – The Legacy of Heorot

Robert B. Parker – Playmates

Giuseppe Pontiggia – La grande sera

Terry Pratchett - Guards! Guards! and Pyramids

Paul Quarrington – Whale Music

Mordecai Richler – Solomon Gursky Was Here

José Saramago – The History of the Siege of Lisbon

Sidney Sheldon – The Sands of Time

Dan Simmons – Hyperion

Danielle Steel - Daddy and Star

Bruce Sterling – Crystal Express

Alexander Stuart – The War Zone

Amy Tan – The Joy Luck Club

Shashi Tharoor – The Great Indian Novel

Rose Tremain – Restoration

Andrew Vachss – Hard Candy

Tom Wakefield – Lot's Wife

Alice Walker – The Temple of My Familiar

Roger Zelazny - Frost & Fire and Knight of Shadows

New York Times Bestseller list 1989

Midnight by Dean R. Koontz

Star by Danielle Steel

The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie

While My Pretty Once Sleeps by Mary Higgins Clark

The Russia House by John le Carré

Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith

Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy

The Dark Half by Stephen King

Daddy by Danielle Steel

1989 Tony Awards (theater)

Play: The Heidi Chronicles by Wendy Wasserstein

Leading Actor Play: Phillip Bosco Lend Me a Tenor

Leading Actress Play: Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine

Featured Actor Play: Boyd Gaines The Heidi Chronicles

Featured Actress Play: Christine Baranski Rumors

Direction Play: Jerry Zaks Lend Me a Tenor

Comedy 1989

Best Comedy Recording: It's Always Something - Gilda Radner

Literary News 1989

Largest Art robbery in the history (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston)

Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini places a US$3 million bounty for the death of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.

Nobel Prize for Literature: Camilo José Cela

Nebula Award: Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, The Healer's War

Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Anne Tyler - Breathing Lessons

Non Fiction 1989

Stephen R. Covey - The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon - Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

John Keegan - The Face of Battle

Peter Mayle - A Year in Provence

Ann Moir and David Jessel – Brain Sex

New Revised Standard Version of the Bible

Gilda Radner - It's Always Something

Dan Topolski and Patrick Robinson - True Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny

Jeremy Wilson - Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorized Biography of T.E. Lawrence