1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner
![Billy Bathgate](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580871371-691-image-3.jpg)
Billy Bathgate
E. L. Doctorow
I was living in even greater circles of gangsterdom than I had dreamed, latitudes and longitudes of gangsterdom’ It’s 1930’s New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of …
1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Shortlist
![Ordinary Love & Good Will](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580973516-3080-image-3.jpg)
Ordinary Love & Good Will
Jane Smiley
![Spartina](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580848072-59001-image-3.jpg)
Spartina
John Casey
![The Joy Luck Club](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580855654-59626-image-3.jpg)
The Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan
![The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580853989-59489-image-3.jpg)