New York: Summit Books, 1991. First edition - Suspenseful novel about a small group of South Africans who plot to assasinate the president of their country, but in addition to the suspense this is a thoughtful meditation on the ethics of violence. Glossary. A massive book at 834 pp.

Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1994. First edition - Novel set in New York City in the 1970s - cover praise from Philip Lopate and Paul Auster (who calls Brownstein a 'singular and haunting writer.' 338 pp.

New York: St. Martin's, 1988. dj. Hardcover first edition - Author's first book - story of 3 women coming of age during WW II in England. ISBN: 0-312-018193.

New York: St Martin's, 2002. SIGNED first edition - Author's first novel, the story of three generations of an African-American family, by a Euro-American, starting in rural South Carolina and ending in Oakland, California. Winner of the Joseph Henry Jackson Award and nominated for the Pushcart Editor's Prize. SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Jewell Parker Rhodes who called this 'astonishingly fine'.

New York: Avon, 2000. dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Suspense novel set in the Southwest. SIGNED on the title page.

New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (2008.). SIGNED first edition - A Wild Cards Novel, set in an alternate 2008, a world which came into existence after an alien virus accidently released in 1946 rewrote human DNA. Written and edited by Martin and Snodgrass, and with contributions by Carrie Vaughn, Caroline Spector, John Jos. Miller, Ian Tregillis, Stephen Leigh, Victor Milan, Kevin Andrew Murphy and Walter Simons,. SIGNED on the title page by BOTH George R. R. Martin and Melinda Snodgrass. 400 pp. ISBN: 0-765317818.

New York: Riverhead Books, 1998. First edition - Prize-winning first collection of short stories by this author; winner of the Willa Cather award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for first fiction, as well as a New York Times Notable Book of they year. The title story was selected by E. Annie Proulx for 'Best American Short Stories, 1997.' Kaye Gibbons called Spence "a reader's dream. Her stories charm the soul and engage the mind... both gentle and firm, quiet and packed with glorious candor." 196 pp.

Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. First edition - An extensively researched and sensitive portrait of Sarah, daughter of Chief Winnemucca in north western Nevada, and the granddaughter of Chief Truckee. A pioneering educator, interpretor, author of what is believed to be the first book by a Native American woman, she worked tirelessly on behalf of her people. Illustrated with photographs.A title in the American Indian Lives series. Map,notes, bibliography. xi, 356 pp.