Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Late George Apley	John P. Marquand	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
The World Was My Garden: Travels of a Plant Explorer	David Fairchild	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
With Malice Toward Some	Margaret Halsey	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Listen! The Wind	Anne Morrow Lindbergh	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner