See also: 1992 in literature, other events of 1993, 1994 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Professor Stephen Hawking's book, A Brief History of Time, becomes the longest running book on the bestseller list of The Sunday Times.
• November 17 - Annie Proulx wins the National Book Award for her novel The Shipping News.

New books

• - Sue Townsend
• Barnyard Dance - Sandra Boynton
• The Christmas Box - Richard Paul Evans
• The Client - John Grisham
• Complicity - Iain Banks
• The Emigrants - W.G. Sebald
• The Giver - Lois Lowry
• Honour Among Thieves - Jeffrey Archer
• The Hope - Herman Wouk
• In the Eye of the Sun - Ahdaf Soueif
• Lasher - Anne Rice
• Like Water for Chocolate - Laura Esquivel
• Losing Eddie - Deborah Joy Corey
• Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus - John Gray
• Men at Arms - Terry Pratchett
• Moving Mars - Greg Bear
• The Night Manager - John le Carré
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes - Stephen King
• - Miranda Seymour
• Pleading Guilty - Scott Turow
• Le Rocher de Tanios - Amin Maalouf
• The Scorpio Illusion - Robert Ludlum
• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree - Tariq Ali
• Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend - Robert James Waller
• Too Big To Fail - Walter Stewart
• Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh
• (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) - Esther Delisle
• Vanished - Danielle Steel
• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions - Martin Amis
• The Wicca Spellbook - Gerina Dunwich
• Without Remorse - Tom Clancy

Deaths

• January 22 - Abe Kobo, writer

Awards

• Booker Prize: Roddy Doyle, Paddy Clark Ha Ha Ha
• See 1993 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
• Nebula Award: Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Cynthia Rylant, Missing May
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Toni Morrison
• Prix Goncourt: Amin Maalouf, Le Rocher de Tanios
• Prix Décembre: René de Obaldia . Exobiographie
• Prix Médicis French: Emmanuèle Bernheim , Sa femme
• Prix Médicis International: Paul Auster, Leviathan
• Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Robert Olen Butler , A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris
• Whitbread Best Book Award : Joan Brady , Theory of War