American Book Awards あめりかんぶっくあわーど
Edition 20 (1999)
Winners
19 peopleA novel of love, memory, and loss that follows a man whose life is marked by alcoholism and regret.
A linked collection of stories about one Native family, moving between memory, ceremony, and reservation life.
A music history that links rhythm and blues to Black consciousness and the politics of race in America.
A children's book about two Native boys taken to boarding school and the pull of home, language, and tradition.
A short story collection that brings Native survival, anger, and wit to the foreground.
A historical novel about the 1937 massacre in the Dominican Republic, told through memory, love, and survival.
A collection of salmon stories, essays, and poems that honors North Pacific Indigenous traditions and ecology.
Two Sicilian novellas shaped by folktale, place, and the tension between tradition and change.
A set of linked vignettes about the men of Brewster Place and the forces that shape Black masculinity.
A novel or linked narrative set against landscape and memory, attentive to place and human longing.
An education study showing how Yup'ik examples can reshape school culture from within.
A satirical novel about self-help, charisma, and the excesses of late-twentieth-century American culture.
A short story collection about migration, crisis, and dark humor in the aftermath of war.
A literary history of U.S. Hispanic writing over twenty-five years, focused on change, identity, and canon-making.
A memoir of mixed heritage and family conflict that turns a difficult childhood into American autobiography.
A cultural history of hip-hop and its role in shaping Black Generation X.
A literary mystery set on the Oklahoma border that blends crime, history, and the aftermath of cultural violence.
An anthology of Buddha poems that moves from Beat writing to hip-hop and treats poetry as spiritual practice.
A children's book about two Native boys taken to boarding school and the pull of home, language, and tradition.