Title	Author	Shortlisted
Offshore	Penelope Fitzgerald	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
The Old Jest	Jennifer Johnston	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Dreamsnake	Vonda N. McIntyre	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Going After Cacciato	Tim O'Brien	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Robert Kennedy and His Times	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Snow Leopard	Peter Matthiessen	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Partidas Dobradas	Mário Donato	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Confederates	Thomas Keneally	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
A Bend in the River	V. S. Naipaul	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Joseph	Julian Rathbone	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Praxis	Fay Weldon	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The White Dragon	Anne McCaffrey	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Faded Sun: Kesrith	C. J. Cherryh	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Blind Voices	Tom Reamy	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The World According to Garp	John Irving	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Lying Low	Diane Johnson	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Family	David Plante	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Remembering Poets	Donald Hall	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur	William Manchester	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats	William M. Murphy	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf	Phyllis Rose	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Stable Peace	Kenneth E. Boulding	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind	Ivan Doig	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
New York Jew	Alfred Kazin	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries	Meyer Schapiro	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted