Title	Author	Shortlisted
Staying On	Paul Scott	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Injury Time	Beryl Bainbridge	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang	Kate Wilhelm	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
O Fruto do Vosso Ventre	Herberto Sales	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
The Spectator Bird	Wallace Stegner	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist	W. A. Swanberg	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made	Irving Howe	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales	Bruno Bettelheim	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Peter Smart's Confessions	Paul Bailey	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Great Granny Webster	Caroline Blackwood	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Shadows on Our Skin	Jennifer Johnston	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Road to Lichfield	Penelope Lively	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Quartet in Autumn	Barbara Pym	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Mindbridge	Joe Haldeman	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Children of Dune	Frank Herbert	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Man Plus	Frederik Pohl	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Shadrach in the Furnace	Robert Silverberg	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?	Raymond Carver	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Balloonist	MacDonald Harris	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Orsinian Tales	Ursula K. Le Guin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
A Fine Romance	Cynthia Propper Seton	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty	Peter Collier	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume VI 1955–1966	Anaïs Nin	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Lives of Roger Casement	B. L. Reid	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Letters of E. B. White	E. B. White	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment in America	Lawrence Goodwyn	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Woman's Body, Woman's Right: The History of Birth Control in America	Linda Gordon	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality	Richard Kluger	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
America as Art	Joshua C. Taylor	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise	Dorothy Dinnerstein	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Dostoyevsky: A Writer in His Time	Joseph Frank	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Kicked a Building Lately?	Ada Louise Huxtable	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Awakening from the American Dream	Rufus E. Miles, Jr.	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted