Title	Author	Shortlisted
Lord of Light	Roger Zelazny	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
The Eighth Day	Thornton Wilder	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Selected Essays	William Troy	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Memoirs: 1925–1950	George F. Kennan	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Death at an Early Age	Jonathan Kozol	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
O Tronco	Bernardo Elis	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
The Einstein Intersection	Samuel R. Delany	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Chthon	Piers Anthony	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Butterfly Kid	Chester Anderson	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Thorns	Robert Silverberg	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Why Are We in Vietnam?	Norman Mailer	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Garden of Earthly Delights	Joyce Carol Oates	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Chosen	Chaim Potok	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Confessions of Nat Turner	William Styron	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Primer of Ignorance	R. P. Blackmur	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Stop-Time	Frank Conroy	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Music, the Arts and Ideas	Leonard B. Meyer	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The New Poets	M. L. Rosenthal	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Beardsley: A Biography	Stanley Weintraub	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Woodrow Wilson: The Academic Years	Henry Bragdon	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Cold War as History	Louis J. Halle	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
To Move a Nation: The Politics of Foreign Policy in the Administration of John F. Kennedy	Roger Hilsman	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Lost New York	Nathan Silver	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Biology of Ultimate Concern	Theodosius Dobzhansky	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The New Industrial State	John Kenneth Galbraith	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling	Suzanne K. Langer	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Myth of the Machine: Technics and Human Development	Lewis Mumford	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted