Title	Author	Shortlisted
Elbow Room	James Alan McPherson	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
The Sea, the Sea	Iris Murdoch	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Picture Palace	Paul Theroux	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Gateway	Frederik Pohl	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
A Hora da Estrela	Clarice Lispector	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Blood Tie	Mary Lee Settle	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Samuel Johnson	Walter Jackson Bate	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870–1914	David McCullough	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Winners and Losers	Gloria Emerson	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Jake's Thing	Kingsley Amis	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Rumours of Rain	André Brink	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Bookshop	Penelope Fitzgerald	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
God on the Rocks	Jane Gardam	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
A Five-Year Sentence	Bernice Rubens	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Forbidden Tower	Marion Zimmer Bradley	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Lucifer's Hammer	Larry Niven	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Time Storm	Gordon R. Dickson	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Dying of the Light	George R. R. Martin	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Public Burning	Robert Coover	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Madder Music	Peter De Vries	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Union Dues	John Sayles	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet	James Atlas	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Brother to a Dragonfly	Will D. Campbell	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
A Dual Autobiography	Will Durant	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing	Frank Vandiver	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized	Henry Steele Commager	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Conflict and Crisis: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1945–48	Robert J. Donovan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
A Species of Eternity	Joseph Kastner	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Gold and Iron	Fritz Stern	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Everything in Its Path: Destruction of Community in the Buffalo Creek Flood	Kai T. Erikson	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Vast Majority	Michael Harrington	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Pink Collar Workers	Louise Kapp Howe	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind	Julian Jaynes	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted