Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Demolished Man	Alfred Bester	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Course of Empire	Bernard De Voto	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Many Mansions	Isabel Bolton	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Winds of Morning	H. L. Davis	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Gathering Darkness	Thomas Gallagher	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Jefferson Selleck	Carl Jonas	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Landsman	Peter Martin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Shower of Summer Days	May Sarton	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Catherine Wheel	Jean Stafford	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
East of Eden	John Steinbeck	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Build-Up	William Carlos Williams	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted