Rankings from Bowker's Annual/Publisher's Weekly
| 1990: Fiction | |||
 | 1 | The Plains of Passage | Auel, Jean M. |
| 2 | Four Past Midnight | King, Stephen |
| 3 | The Burden of Proof | Turow, Scott |
| 4 | Memories of Midnight | Sheldon, Sidney |
| 5 | Message from Nam | Steel, Danielle |
| 6 | The Bourne Ultimatum | Ludlum, Robert | |
| 7 | The Stand | King, Stephen |
| 8 | Lady Boss | Collins, Jackie |
| 9 | The Witching Hour | Rice, Anne |
| 10 | September | Pilcher, Rosamunde |
| 11 | Dazzle | Krantz, Judith | |
| 12 | The Bad Place | Koontz, Dean R. | |
| 13 | The Women in His Life | Bradford, Barbara Taylor | |
| 14 | The First Man in Rome | McCullough, Colleen | |
| 15 | Dragon | Cussler, Clive | |
| 1990: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | A Life on the Road | Kuralt, Charles | |
| 2 | The Civil War | Ward, Geoffrey C. with Ric Burns and Ken Burns | |
| 3 | The Frugal Gourmet on Our Immigrant Heritage: Recipes You Should Have Gotten from Your Grandmother | Smith, Jeff | |
| 4 | Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book | Anon. | |
| 5 | Financial Self-Defense: How To Win the Fight for Financial Freedom | Givens, Charles J. | |
| 6 | Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child | John, Bradshaw | |
| 7 | Wealth Without Risk: How To Develop a Personal Fortune Without Going Out on a Limb | Givens, Charles J. | |
| 8 | Bo Knows Bo | Jackson, Bo and Dick Schaap | |
| 9 | An American Life: An Autobiography | Reagan, Ronald | |
| 10 | Megatrends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990s | Naisbitt, John and Patricia Aburdene | |
| 11 | By Way of Deception: The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer | Ostrovsky, Victor | |
| 12 | Get to the Heart: My Story | Mandrell, Barbara | |
| 13 | Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bush | Bush, Mildred Kerr | |
| 14 | Men At Work: The Craft of Baseball | Will, George F. | |
| 15 | The Cat and the Curmudgeon | Amory, Cleveland | |
| 1991: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's "Gone with the Wind," | Ripley, Alexandra |
| 2 | The Sum of All Fears | Clancy, Tom |
| 3 | Needful Things | King, Stephen |
| 4 | No Greater Love | Steel, Danielle | |
| 5 | Heartbeat | Steel, Danielle |
| 6 | The Doomsday Conspiracy | Sheldon, Sidney |
| 7 | The Firm | Grisham, John |
| 8 | Night Over Water | Follett, Ken | |
| 9 | Remember | Bradford, Barbara Taylor | |
| 10 | Loves Music, Loves to Dance | Clark, Mary Higgins |
| 11 | Cold Fire | Koontz, Dean R. | |
| 12 | The Kitchen God's Wife | Tan, Amy |
| 13 | Sleeping Beauty | Michael, Judith | |
| 14 | Star Wars: Heir to the Empire | Zahn, Timothy |
| 15 | WLT: A Radio Romance | Keillor, Garrison | |
| 1991: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Me: Stories of My Life | Hepburn, Katharine | |
| 2 | Nancy Reagan: The Unauthorized Biography | Kelley, Kitty | |
| 3 | Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door | Fulghum, Robert | |
| 4 | Under Fire: An American Story | North, Oliver with William Novak | |
| 5 | Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying | Humphry, Derek | |
| 6 | When You Look Like Your Passport Photo, It's Time to Go Home | Bombeck, Erma | |
| 7 | More Wealth Without Risk | Givens, Charles J. | |
| 8 | Den of Thieves | Stewart, James B. | |
| 9 | Childhood | Cosby, Bill | |
| 10 | Financial Self-Defense | Givens, Charles J. | |
| 11 | The Frugal Gourmet Celebrates Christmas | Smith, Jeff | |
| 12 | Iron John: A Book About Men | Bly, Robert | |
| 13 | The Commanders | Woodward, Bob | |
| 14 | The Best Treatment | Rosenfeld, Isadore | |
| 15 | Do It! Let's Get Off Our Buts | McWilliams, Peter | |
| 1992: Fiction | |||
| 1 | Dolores Claiborne | King, Stephen |
| 2 | The Pelican Brief | Grisham, John |
| 3 | Gerald's Game | King, Stephen | |
| 4 | Mixed Blessings | Steel, Danielle |
| 5 | Jewels | Steel, Danielle | |
| 6 | The Stars Shine Down | Sheldon, Sidney | |
| 7 | Tale of the Body Thief | Rice, Anne |
| 8 | Mexico | Michener, James A. |
| 9 | Waiting to Exhale | McMillan, Terry |
| 10 | All Around the Town | Clark, Mary Higgins |
| 11 | Scruples Two | Krantz, Judith | |
| 12 | Sabara | Cussler, Clive | |
| 13 | Hideaway | Koontz, Dean R. | |
| 14 | The Road to Omaha | Ludlum, Robert | |
| 15 | Star Wars: Dark Force Rising | Zahn, Timothy |
| 1992: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Way Things Ought To Be | Limbaugh, Rush | |
| 2 | It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography | Schwarzkopf, Gen. H. Norman | |
| 3 | How to Satisfy a Woman Every Time | Hayden, Naura | |
| 4 | Every Living Thing | Herriot, James | |
| 5 | A Return to Love | Williamson, Marianne | |
| 6 | Sam Walton: Made in America | Walton, Sam | |
| 7 | Diana: Her True Story | Morton, Andrew | |
| 8 | Truman | McCullough, David | |
| 9 | Silent Passage | Sheehy, Gail | |
| 10 | Sex | Madonna | |
| 11 | The Juiceman's Power of Juicing | Kordich, Ray | |
| 12 | Harvey Penick's Little Red Book | Penick, Harvey | |
| 13 | More Wealth Without Risk | Givens, Charles | |
| 14 | I Can't Believe I Said That | Gifford, Kathie Lee | |
| 15 | Creating Love | Bradshaw, John | |
| 1993: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Bridges of Madison County | Waller, James Robert |
| 2 | The Client | Grisham, John |
| 3 | Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend | Waller, James Robert |
| 4 | Without Remorse | Clancy, Tom |
| 5 | Nightmares and Dreamscapes | King, Stephen |
| 6 | Vanished | Steel, Danielle | |
| 7 | Lasher | Rice, Anne |
| 8 | Pleading Guilty | Turow, Scott |
| 9 | Like Water for Chocolate | Esquivel, Laura |
| 10 | The Scorpio Illusion | Ludlum, Robert | |
| 11 | The Golden Mean | Bantock, Nick |
| 12 | I'll Be Seeing You | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 13 | A Dangerous Fortune | Follett, Ken | |
| 14 | Mr. Murder | Koontz, Dean | |
| 15 | Gai-Jin | Clavell, James | |
| 1993: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | See, I Told You So | Limbaugh, Rush | |
| 2 | Private Parts | Stern, Howard | |
| 3 | Seinlanguage | Seinfeld, Jerry | |
| 4 | Embraced by the Light | Eadie, Betty J. with Curtis Taylor | |
| 5 | Ageless Body, Timeless Mind | Chopra, Deepak | |
| 6 | Stop the Insanity | Powter, Susan | |
| 7 | Women Who Run with the Wolves | Estes, Clarissa Pinkola | |
| 8 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus | Gray, John | |
| 9 | The Hidden Life of Dogs | Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall | |
| 10 | And If You Play Golf, You're My Friend | Penick, Harvey with Bud Shrake | |
| 11 | The Way Things Ought to Be | Limbaugh, Rush | |
| 12 | Beating the Street | Lynch, Peter | |
| 13 | Harvey Penick's Little Red Book | Penick, Harvey | |
| 14 | Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now | Angelou, Maya | |
| 15 | Further Along the Road Less Traveled | Peck, M. Scott | |
| 1994: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Chamber | Grisham, John |
| 2 | Debt of Honor | Clancy, Tom |
| 3 | The Celestine Prophecy | Redfield, James |
| 4 | The Gift | Steel, Danielle |
| 5 | Insomnia | King, Stephen | |
| 6 | Politically Correct Bedtime Stories | Garner, James Finn |
| 7 | Wings | Steel, Danielle |
| 8 | Accident | Steel, Danielle | |
| 9 | The Bridges of Madison County | Waller, James Robert |
| 10 | Disclosure | Crichton, Michael |
| 11 | Nothing Lasts Forever | Sheldon, Sidney |
| 12 | Taltos | Rice, Anne |
| 13 | Dark Rivers of the Heart | Koontz, Dean |
| 14 | The Lottery Winner | Clark, Mary Higgins |
| 15 | Remember Me | Clark, Mary Higgins |
| 16 | The Body Farm | Cornwell, Patricial |
| 17 | K is for Killer | Grafton, Sue |
| 18 | Everything to Gain | Bradford, Barbara Taylor | |
| 19 | Spencerville | DeMille, Nelson | |
| 20 | Wild Horses | Francis, Dick |
| 21 | Inca Gold | Cussler, Clive |
| 22 | Mutant Message Down Under | Morgan, Marlo |
| 23 | Lord of Chaos | Jordan, Robert | |
| 24 | Fatal Cure | Cook, Robin |
| 25 | Family Blessings | Spencer, LaVyrle |
| 1994: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | In the Kitchen with Rosie | Daley, Rosie | |
| 2 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus | Gray, John | |
| 3 | Crossing the Threshold of Hope | Pope, John Paul II. | |
| 4 | Magic Eye I | N.E. Thing Enterprises | |
| 5 | The Book of Virtues | Bennett, William J. | |
| 6 | Magic Eye II | N.E. Thing Enterprises | |
| 7 | Embraced by the Light | Eadie, Betty J. with Curtis Taylor | |
| 8 | Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man | Allen, Tim | |
| 9 | Couplehood | Reiser, Paul | |
| 10 | Magic Eye III | N.E. Thing Enterprises | |
| 11 | Dolly | Parton, Dolly | |
| 12 | James Herriot's Cat Stories | Herriot, James | |
| 13 | Barbara Bush | Bush, Barbara | |
| 14 | Nicole Brown Simpson | Resnick, Faye | |
| 15 | The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. Cookbook | Oxmoor House/Leisure Arts | |
| 16 | The Agenda | Woodward, Bob | |
| 17 | What Your Mother Couldn't Tell You and Your Father Didn't Know | Gray, John | |
| 18 | Reba: My Story | McIntire, Reba | |
| 19 | Standing Firm | Quayle, Dan | |
| 20 | The Weight Watchers Complete Cookbook and Program Basics | Anon. | |
| 21 | Old Songs in a New Cafe | Waller, James Robert | |
| 22 | Baseball | Burns, Ken and Geoffrey C. Ward | |
| 23 | First Things First | Covey, Stephen R. and A. Roger Miller | |
| 24 | The Hot Zone | Preston, Richard | |
| 25 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Berendt, John |
| 1995: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Rainmaker | Grisham, John | |
| 2 | The Lost World | Crichton, Michael |
| 3 | Five Days in Paris | Steel, Danielle | |
| 4 | The Christmas Box | Evans, Richard Paul |
| 5 | Lightning | Steel, Danielle | |
| 6 | The Celestine Prophecy | Redfield, James |
| 7 | Rose Madder | King, Stephen | |
| 8 | Silent Night | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 9 | Politically Correct Holiday Stories | Garner, James Finn | |
| 10 | The Horse Whisperer | Evans, Nicholas |
| 11 | Politically Correct Bedtime Stories | Garner, James Finn |
| 12 | Memnoch the Devil | Rice, Anne | |
| 13 | Beach Music | Conroy, Pat |
| 14 | From Potter's Field | Cornwell, Patricia | |
| 15 | Morning, Noon, and Night | Sheldon, Sidney | |
| 1995: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus | Gray, John | |
| 2 | My American Journey | Colin Powell | |
| 3 | Miss America | Stern, Howard | |
| 4 | The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success | Chopra, Deepak | |
| 5 | The Road Ahead | Gates, Bill | |
| 6 | Charles Kuralt's America | Kuralt, Charles | |
| 7 | Mars and Venus in the Bedroom | Gray, John | |
| 8 | To Renew America | Gingrich, Newt | |
| 9 | My Point...and I Do Have One | DeGeneres, Ellen | |
| 10 | The Moral Compass | Bennett, William J. | |
| 11 | The Book of Virtues | Bennett, William J. | |
| 12 | I Want to Tell You | Simpson, O.J. | |
| 14 | Emotional Intelligence | Goleman, Daniel | |
| 15 | David Letterman's Book of Top 10 Lists | Letterman, David | |
| 1996: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Runaway Jury | Grisham, John |
| 2 | Executive Orders | Clancy, Tom | |
| 3 | Desperation | King, Stephen | |
| 4 | Airframe | Crichton, Michael | |
| 5 | The Regulators | Bachman, Richard | |
| 6 | Malice | Steel, Danielle | |
| 7 | Silent Honor | Steel, Danielle | |
| 8 | Primary Colors | Anonymous |
| 9 | Cause of Death | Cornwell, Patricia |
| 10 | The Tenth Insight | Redfield, James | |
| 11 | The Deep End of the Ocean | Mitchard, Jacquelyn |
| 12 | How Stella Got Her Groove Back | McMillan, Terry |
| 13 | Moonlight Becomes You | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 14 | My Gal Sunday | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 15 | The Celestine Prophecy | Redfield, James |
| 1996: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Make the Connection | Winfrey, Oprah | |
| 2 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus | Gray, John | |
| 3 | The Dilbert Principle | Adams, Scott | |
| 4 | Simple Abundance | Breathnach, Sarah Ban | |
| 5 | The Zone | Sears, Barry | |
| 6 | Bad As I Wanna Be | Rodman, Dennis | |
| 7 | In Contempt | Darden, Christopher | |
| 8 | A Reporter's Life | Cronkite, Walter | |
| 9 | Dogbert's Top Secret Management Handbook | Adams, Scott | |
| 10 | My Sergei: A Love Story | Gordeeva, Ekaterina | |
| 11 | Gift and Mystery | Pope John Paul II | |
| 12 | I'm Not Really Here | Allen, Tim | |
| 13 | Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations | Franken, Al | |
| 14 | James Herriot's Favorite Dog Stories | Herriot, James | |
| 15 | My Story | The Duchess of York | |
| 1997: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Partner | Grisham, John |
| 1 | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | Rowling, JK |
| 2 | Cold Mountain | Frazier, Charles |
| 3 | The Ghost | Steel, Danielle | |
| 4 | The Ranch | Steel, Danielle | |
| 5 | Special Delivery | Steel, Danielle | |
| 6 | Unnatural Exposure | Cornwell, Patricia | |
| 7 | The Best Laid Plans | Sheldon, Sidney | |
| 8 | Pretend You Don't See Her | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 9 | Cat & Mouse | Patterson, James | |
| 10 | Hornet's Nest | Cornwell, Patricia | |
| 11 | The Letter | Evans, Richard Paul | |
| 12 | Flood Tide | Cussler, Clive | |
| 13 | Violin | Rice, Anne | |
| 14 | The Matarese Countdown | Ludlum, Robert | |
| 15 | Plum Island | DeMille, Nelson | |
| 1997: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Angela's Ashes | McCourt, Frank |
| 2 | Simple Abundance | Breathnach, Sarah Ban | |
| 3 | Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil | Berendt, John |
| 4 | The Royals | Kelley, Kitty | |
| 5 | Joy of Cooking | Rombauer, Irma | |
| 6 | Diana: Her True Story | Morton, Andrew | |
| 7 | Into Thin Air | Krakauer, Jon | |
| 8 | Conversations with God, Book I | Walsch, Neale Donald | |
| 9 | Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus | Gray, John | |
| 10 | Eight Weeks to Optimum Health | Weil, Andrew | |
| 11 | Just As I Am | Graham, Billy | |
| 12 | The Man Who Listens to Horses | Roberts, Monty | |
| 13 | The Millionaire Next Door | Stanley, Thomas J. | |
| 14 | The Perfect Storm | Junger, Sebastian | |
| 15 | Kids Are Punny | O'Donnell, Rosie | |
| 1998: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Street Lawyer | Grisham, John |
| 2 | Rainbow Six | Clancy, Tom | |
| 3 | Bag of Bones | King, Stephen | |
| 4 | A Man in Full | Wolfe, Tom | |
| 5 | Mirror Image | Steel, Danielle | |
| 6 | The Long Road Home | Steel, Danielle | |
| 7 | The Klone and I | Steel, Danielle | |
| 8 | Point of Origin | Cornwell, Patricia | |
| 9 | Paradise | Morrison, Toni |
| 10 | All Through the Night | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 11 | I Know This Much Is True | Lamb, Wally |
| 12 | Tell Me Your Dreams | Sheldon, Sidney | |
| 13 | The Vampire Armand | Rice, Anne | |
| 14 | The Loop | Evans, Nicholas | |
| 15 | You Belong to Me | Clark, Mary Higgins | |
| 1998: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom | Orman, Suze | |
| 2 | The Greatest Generation | Brokaw, Tom | |
| 3 | Sugar Busters! | Steward, H. Leighton | |
| 4 | Tuesdays With Morrie | Albom, Mitch | |
| 5 | The Guinness Book of World Records, 1999 | Guinness Media | |
| 6 | Talking to Heaven | Praagh, James Van | |
| 7 | Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self | Breathnach, Sarah Ban | |
| 8 | In the Meantime | Vanzant, Iyanla | |
| 9 | A Pirate Looks At Fifty | Buffett, Jimmy | |
| 10 | If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules | Carter-Scott, Cherie | |
| 11 | Angela's Ashes | McCourt, Frank |
| 12 | For the Love of the Game: My Story | Jordan, Michael | |
| 13 | The Day Diana Died | Andersen, Christopher | |
| 14 | The Century | Jennings, Peter | |
| 15 | Eat Right 4 Your Type | D'Adamo, Peter J. | |
| 1999: Fiction | |||
| 1 | The Testament | Grisham, John |
| 2 | Hannibal | Harris, Thomas |
| 3 | Assassins | Jenkins, Jerry B. | |
| 4 | Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace | Brooks, Terry |
| 5 | Timeline | Crichton, Michael |
| 6 | Hearts in Atlantis | King, Stephen | |
| 7 | Apollyon | Jenkins, Jerry B. | |
| 8 | The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon | King, Stephen | |
| 9 | Irresistible Forces | Steel, Danielle | |
| 10 | Tara Road | Binchy, Maeve |
| 11 | White Oleander | Fitch, Janet |
| 12 | A Walk to Remember | Sparks, Nicholas |
| 13 | Pop Goes the Weasel | Patterson, James | |
| 14 | Black Notice | Cornwell, Patricia | |
| 15 | Granny Dan | Steel, Danielle | |
| 1999: Non-Fiction | |||
| 1 | Tuesdays with Morrie | Albom, Mitch | |
| 2 | The Greatest Generation | Brokaw, Tom | |
| 3 | Guinness World Records 2000 Millennium Edition | Guinness | |
| 4 | 'Tis | McCourt, Frank | |
| 5 | Who Moved My Cheese? | Johnson, Spencer | |
| 6 | The Courage to Be Rich | Orman, Suze | |
| 7 | The Greatest Generation Speaks | Brokaw, Tom | |
| 8 | Sugar Busters! | Steward, H. Leighton | |
| 9 | The Art of Happines | The Dalai Lama | |
| 10 | The Century | Jennings, Peter | |
| 11 | Body for Life | Phillips, Bill | |
| 12 | Life Strategies | McGraw, Phillip C. | |
| 13 | Have a Nice Day! | Foley, Mick | |
| 14 | Suzanne Somers' Get Skinny on Fabulous Food | Somers, Suzanne | |
| 15 | Don't Sweat the Small Stuff in Love | Carlson, Richard and Kristine | |
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