Title	Author	Shortlisted
They'd Rather Be Right	Mark Clifton	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
A Fable	William Faulkner	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Measure of Man	Joseph Wood Krutch	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Dollmaker	Harriette Arnow	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The View from Pompey's Head	Hamilton Basso	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Night of the Hunter	Davis Grubb	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Pictures from an Institution	Randall Jarrell	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Last Hunt	Milton Lott	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Lord Grizzly	Frederick Manfred	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Bad Seed	William March	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Huge Season	Wright Morris	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Courts of Memory	Frank Rooney	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Sweet Thursday	John Steinbeck	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted