National Book Award for Nonfiction 1965

Nominations

Winner	The Life of Lenin	Louis Fischer
Winner	God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion	Norbert Wiener
Winner	The Oysters of Locmariaquer	Eleanor Clark
	Because I Was Flesh	Edward Dahlberg
	Shadow and Act	Ralph Ellison
	O Strange New World: American Culture, the Formative Years	Howard Mumford Jones
	Pedro Martinez: A Mexican Peasant and His Family	Oscar Lewis
	Age of the Democratic Revolution: A Political History of Europe and America, 1760–1800	R. R. Palmer
	Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment	Willie Lee Nichols Rose
	Henry Adams: The Major Phase	Ernest Samuels
	The Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy	Richard J. Whalen
	With God in Russia	Walter Ciszek
	Heredity and the Nature of Man	Theodosius Dobzhansky
	The Language of Nature: An Essay on the Philosophy of Science	David Hawkins
	The Problem of God, Yesterday and Today	John Courtney Murray
	We Are Not Alone: The Search for Intelligent Life on Other Worlds	Walter S. Sullivan
	The Life of the Drama	Eric Bentley
	The Theater of Revolt: An Approach to Modern Drama	Robert Brustein