Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Big Time	Fritz Leiber	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
The Wapshot Chronicle	John Cheever	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Lion and the Throne	Catherine Drinker Bowen	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
A Death in the Family	James Agee	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
By Love Possessed	James Gould Cozzens	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Something About a Soldier	Mark Harris	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Velvet Horn	Andrew Nelson Lytle	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Assistant	Bernard Malamud	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Love Among the Cannibals	Wright Morris	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Pnin	Vladimir Nabokov	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Atlas Shrugged	Ayn Rand	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Return of Lady Brace	Nancy Wilson Ross	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Birth of a Grandfather	May Sarton	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted