Books 1974

TitleAuthorShortlisted
The Sacred and Profane Love MachineIris Murdoch
Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Rendezvous with RamaArthur C. Clarke
Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Deeper into MoviesPauline Kael
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
[d]John Leonard Clive
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite TasksMaurice Natanson
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Life: The Unfinished ExperimentS. E. Luria
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Briar Patch: The People of the State of New York versus Lumumba Shakur, et al.Murray Kempton
National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
As MeninasLygia Fagundes Teles
Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
The ConservationistNadine Gordimer
Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Time Enough for LoveRobert A. Heinlein
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
ProtectorLarry Niven
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The People of the WindPoul Anderson
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Man Who Folded HimselfDavid Gerrold
Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil WarDaniel Aaron
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Forewords and AfterwordsW. H. Auden
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
MandelstamClarence Brown
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Golden Codgers: Biographical SpeculationsRichard Ellmann
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
A Decade of MusicB. H. Haggin
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Pentimento: A Book of PortraitsLillian Hellman
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Walking the Dead Diamond RiverEdward Hoagland
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Elie NadelmanLincoln Kirstein
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Explaining Music: Essays and ExplorationsLeonard B. Meyer
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The InspectorSaul Steinberg
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Americans and the California Dream, 1850–1915Kevin Starr
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Malcolm Lowry: A BiographyDouglas Day
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Sir Harry Vane: His Life and TimesJ. H. Adamson
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and The Conquest of SolitudeRobert V. Bruce
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938Stephen F. Cohen
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Prophetic Voice, Vol. IILester G. Crocker
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Buried Alive: The Biography of Janis JoplinMyra Friedman
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Lawyer's Lawyer: The Life of John W. DavisWilliam H. Harbaugh
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Devil and John Foster DullesTownsend Hoopes
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
O'Neill Volume II: Son and ArtistLouis Sheaffer
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Catherine BeecherKathryn Kish Sklar
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
StalinAdam Ulam
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Generative Man: Psychoanalytic PerspectivesDon Browning
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Seduction of the Spirit: The Use and Misuse of People's ReligionHarvey Cox
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Anatomy of Human DestructivenessErich Fromm
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Jean-Paul SartreMarjorie Grene
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Critique of Domination: The Origins and Development of Critical TheoryTrent Schroyer
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in AmericaLaurence Veysey
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
History and Will: Philosophical Perspectives of Mao Tse-Tung's ThoughtFrederic Wakeman
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Studies in the History of Philosophy and Religion, Vol. 1Harry Austryn Wolfson
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Puritanism in America: New Culture in a New WorldLarzer Ziff
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
EinsteinJeremy Bernstein
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Genetic Diversity and Human EqualityTheodosius Dobzhansky
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Genetic Fix: The Next Technological RevolutionAmitai Etzioni
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Are Quanta Real?: A Galilean DialogueJ. M. Jauch
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Desert: The American SouthwestRuth Kirk and Louis Kirk
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. IISuzanne K. Langer
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Autumn of the EagleGeorge Laycock
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society IslandsRobert I. Levy
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Behavior: The Control of PerceptionWilliam T. Powers
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Deaths of ManEdwin S. Shneidman
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Truth About Kent State: A Challenge to the American ConsciencePeter Davies
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Economics and the Public PurposeJohn Kenneth Galbraith
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
In Search of Ali Mahmoud: An American Woman in EgyptVivian Gornick
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Indispensable Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in AmericaWalter Karp
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Home from the War: Vietnam Veterans—Neither Victims nor ExecutionersRobert Jay Lifton
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Kind and Usual Punishment: The Prison BusinessJessica Mitford
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Sixties Going on SeventiesNora Sayre
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Imperial PresidencyArthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Saturday Night Special and Other GunsRobert Sherrill
National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
HolidayStanley Middleton
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Ending UpKingsley Amis
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Bottle Factory OutingBeryl Bainbridge
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
In Their WisdomC. P. Snow
Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted