Her Smoke Rose Up Forever
Collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by author James Tiptree, Jr. It was released in 1990 by Arkham House
1990s
The Secret History
First novel by the American author Donna Tartt, published by Alfred A. Knopf in September 1992. Set in New England, the campus novel tells the story of a closely knit group of six classics students at Hampden College, a small, elite liberal arts college located in Vermont based upon Bennington College, where Tartt was a student between 1982 and 1986.The Secret History is an inverted detective story narrated by one of the six students, Richard Papen, who reflects years later upon the situation that led to the murder of their friend Edmund “Bunny” Corcoran wherein the events leading up to the murder are revealed sequentially
The Stone Diaries
1993 novel by Carol Shields.
Explaining Hitler
1998 book by historian-journalist Ron Rosenbaum, in which the author discusses his struggles with the “exceptionalist” character of Adolf Hitler’s personality and impact on the world or, worse , his struggle with the possibility that Hitler is not an exception at all, but on the natural continuum of human destructive possibility.
American Pastoral
Philip Roth novel published in 1997 concerning Seymour “Swede” Levov, a successful Jewish American businessman and former high school star athlete from Newark, New Jersey
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Fantasy novel written by British author J. K. Rowling
The God of Small Things
Family drama novel written by Indian writer Arundhati Roy
Kiss the Girls
Psychological thriller novel by American writer James Patterson, the second to star his recurring main character Alex Cross, an African-American psychologist and policeman
The Golden Compass
Young-adult fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, published in 1995 by Scholastic UK. Set in a parallel universe, it follows the journey of Lyra Belacqua to the Arctic in search of her missing friend, Roger Parslow, and her imprisoned uncle, Lord Asriel, who has been conducting experiments with a mysterious substance known as “Dust”.Northern Lights is the first book of the trilogy, His Dark Materials . Alfred A. Knopf published the first US edition April 1996, under the name The Golden Compass, under which title it was adapted as a 2007 feature film and as a companion video game
The Things They Carried
Collection of linked short stories by American novelist Tim O’Brien, about a platoon of American soldiers fighting on the ground in the Vietnam War