Title	Author	Shortlisted
The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Rites of Passage	William Golding	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
How Far Can You Go?	David Lodge	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
The Fountains of Paradise	Arthur C. Clarke	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Sophie's Choice	William Styron	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The World According to Garp	John Irving	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Lauren Bacall by Myself	Lauren Bacall	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Right Stuff	Tom Wolfe	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court	Elder Witt	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The White House Years	Henry A. Kissinger	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Gnostic Gospels	Elaine Pagels	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
O Grande Mentecapto	Fernando Sabino	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
Julia Child and More Company	Julia Child	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Ghost Writer	Philip Roth	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Earthly Powers	Anthony Burgess	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
A Month in the Country	J. L. Carr	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Clear Light of Day	Anita Desai	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Beggar Maid	Alice Munro	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
No Country for Young Men	Julia O'Faolain	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Pascali's Island	Barry Unsworth	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Titan	John Varley	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Jem	Frederik Pohl	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Harpist in the Wind	Patricia A. McKillip	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
On Wings of Song	Thomas M. Disch	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Just Above My Head	James Baldwin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Endless Love	Scott Spencer	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Collected Stories	Paul Bowles	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Violet Clay	Gail Godwin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Too Far to Go	John Updike	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Miss MacIntosh, My Darling	Marguerite Young	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can	Barbara Gordon	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Front and Center	John Houseman	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Obituaries	William Saroyan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Design for Independent Living: The Environment and Physically Disabled People	Barbara Winslow	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Your Second Life: Vitality and Growth in Middle and Later Years from the Experiences of the Sage Program	Gay Gaer Luce	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise	Nathan Pritikin	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Privacy: How to Protect What's Left of It	Robert Ellis Smith	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
America Revised	Frances FitzGerald	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Powers That Be	David Halberstam	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
A Nervous Splendor: Vienna, 1888–1889	Frederic Morton	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA	Thomas Powers	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Encyclopedia of China Today	Frederic M. Kaplan, Julian M. Sopin, and Stephen Andors	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Arts in America: A Bibliography	Bernard Karpel	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Encyclopedia of American Religions	J. Gordon Melton	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Index to Children's Songs	Carolyn Sue Peterson and Ann D. Fenton	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945	Robert Dallek	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Decline of Bismarck's European Order: Franco-Russian Relations, 1875–1890	George F. Kennan	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Utopian Thought in the Western World	Frank E. Manuel	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Munich: The Price of Peace	Telford Taylor	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation	Peter L. Berger	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Introduction to the Old Testament as Scripture	Brevard S. Childs	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Love Is Stronger Than Death	Peter Kreeft	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach	Jack B. Rogers	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Birdy	William Wharton	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted