| Index | Author | Title | Date | # Pages | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 968 | -- Ilf | The Twelve Chairs | 9jan88 | 393 | Novel |
| 969 | Ken Follett | Paper Money | 16jan88 | 245 | Novel |
| 970 | Jack London | Martin Eden | 8feb88 | 341 | Novel |
| 971 | Anne Rice | Interview With the Vampire | 26mar88 | 345 | Novel |
| 972 | Ed Regis | Who Got Einstein's Office | 7apr88 | 290 | Non-Fiction |
| 973 | Seymour Papert | Mindstorms | 27apr88 | 207 | A.I. |
| 974 | Douglas Adams | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency | 7may88 | 306 | Novel/Science Fiction |
| 975 | Donald Westlake | Good Behavior | 11may88 | 276 | Novel/Dortmunder |
| 976 | Loren D. Estleman | Midnight Man | 21may88 | 263 | Novel/Mystery |
| 977 | Robert A. Heinlein | Job | 25may88 | 439 | Novel/Science Fiction |
| 978 | Thomas M. Disch | On Wings of Song | 11jun88 | 357 | Novel/Science Fiction |
| 979 | Elmore Leonard | Bandits | 14jun88 | 369 | Novel/Crime |
| 980 | Rebecca Goldstein | The Mind-Body Problem | 20jun88 | 290 | Novel |
| 981 | Ravi Batra | The Great Depression of 1990 | 1jul88 | 215 | Economics |
| 982 | Bob Greene | Be True to Your School | 3jul88 | 341 | Autobiography/Journal |
| 983 | Clyde Edgerton | Walking Across Egypt | 4jul88 | 225 | Novel |
| 984 | P. G. Wodehouse | Lord Emsworth and Others | 23jul88 | 212 | Short Stories |
| 985 | P. G. Wodehouse | Uncle Fred in the Springtime | 3aug88 | 219 | Novel/PGW |
| 986 | Stephen King | Misery | 7aug88 | 307 | Novel/Horror |
| 987 | Peter S. Beagle | The Folk of the Air | 28aug88 | 374 | Novel/Fantasy |
| 988 | Vladimir Nabokov | Lolita | 8sep88 | 277 | Novel |
| 989 | Neil Gaiman | Don't Panic | 15sep88 | 182 | Non-Fiction |
| 990 | C. S. Forester | Mr. Midshipman Hornblower | 5oct88 | 268 | Novel |
| 991 | C. S. Forester | Lieutenant Hornblower | 7oct88 | 304 | Novel |
| 992 | C. S. Forester | Hornblower and the Hotspur | 12oct88 | 342 | Novel |
| 993 | C. S. Forester | Hornblower and the Atropos | 16oct88 | 310 | Novel |
| 994 | C. S. Forester | Long Before Forty | 18oct88 | 167 | Autobiography |
| 995 | Robert K. Massie | Peter the Great | 21oct88 | 877 | Biography/History |
| 996 | Anne Rice | The Vampire Lestat | 31oct88 | 481 | Novel |
| 997 | C. S. Forester | Beat to Quarters | 5nov88 | 215 | Novel |
| 998 | P. G. Wodehouse | The Inimitable Jeeves | 13nov88 | 218 | Novel/PGW |
| 999 | C. S. Forester | Ship of the Line | 20nov88 | 248 | Novel |
| 1000 | Cecil Adams | More of the Straight Dope | 15dec88 | 466 | Trivia |