1999

• Comrades, Brothers, Fathers, Heroes, Brothers, Sons, Pals, by Stephen E. Ambrose (Simon & Schuster).
• Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss, nonfiction by Frederick Barthelme and Steven Barthelme (Houghton Mifflin).
• trip, text by Frederick Barthelme, photographs by Susan Lipper (powerHouse).
• Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays in Art and Activism, by Rick Bass (Milkweed).
• Of Home and Family: Art in Nineteenth Century Mississippi, by Patti Carr Black (Mississippi Museum of Art).
• The Southern Writers Quiz Book, by Patti Carr Black (University Press of Mississippi).
• The Peddler’s Grandson: Growing Up Jewish in Mississippi, by Edward Cohen (University Press of Mississippi).
• Outside Chance, by Louisa Dixon (Genesis Press).
• Watch Me Fly: What I Learned on the Way to Becoming the Woman I Was Meant to Be, by Myrlie Evers-Williams and Melinda Blau (Little, Brown).
• The Testament, by John Grisham (Doubleday).
• Them Bones, by Carolyn Haines (Bantam).
• Familiar Valentine, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• Familiar Christmas, by Caroline Burnes (Carolyn Haines) (Harlequin).
• A Fool and His Honey, by Charlaine Harris (St. Martin’s).
• Hannibal, by Thomas Harris (Delacorte Press).
• The Quiet Game, by Greg Iles (Dutton).
• A Calculus of Angels, a novel by J. Gregory Keyes (Del Rey).
• The Ties That Bind: Timeless Values for African American Families, by Joyce A. Ladner (John Wiley & Sons).
• My Cat Spit McGee, by Willie Morris (Random House).
• Frontier Children, by Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith (University of Oklahoma Press).
• The Supreme Court under Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921, by Walter F. Pratt, Jr. (University of South Carolina Press).
• Pilgrims: Sinners, Saints, and Prophets, by Marty Stuart (Rutledge Hill Press).
• Little Cliff and the Porch People, by Clifton L. Taulbert (Dial Books for Young Readers).
• Enemy Within, by Phillip Thompson (Salvo Press).
• Clifford's Blues, a novel by John Alfred Williams (Coffeehouse).
• Embryo, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
• Donor, by Charles Wilson (St. Martin's).
  For additional titles and more information on the above titles, go to the Book News title list for 1999.

August 2: Willie Morris dies of a heart attack in Jackson, Mississippi.