National Book Award for Nonfiction 1986

Nominations

Winner	Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape	Barry Lopez
	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War	John W. Dower
	The Paper: The Life and Times of the New York Herald Tribune	Richard Kluger
	The Young Hemingway	Michael S. Reynolds
	Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter	Theodore Rosengarten