National Book Award for Fiction 1980

Nominations

Winner	The World According to Garp	John Irving
Winner	Sophie's Choice	William Styron
	Just Above My Head	James Baldwin
	The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer
	The Ghost Writer	Philip Roth
	Endless Love	Scott Spencer
	Collected Stories	Paul Bowles
	Violet Clay	Gail Godwin
	Too Far to Go	John Updike
	Miss MacIntosh, My Darling	Marguerite Young