Title	Author	Shortlisted
Midnight's Children	Salman Rushdie	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Silver's City	Maurice Leitch	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
The Snow Queen	Joan D. Vinge	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
Plains Song: For Female Voices	Wright Morris	National Book Award for Fiction winner
The Stories of John Cheever	John Cheever	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Walt Whitman: A Life	Justin Kaplan	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
China Men	Maxine Hong Kingston	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality	John Boswell	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Endiabrados	Dionélio Machado	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
So Long, See You Tomorrow	William Maxwell	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Good Behaviour	Molly Keane	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Sirian Experiments	Doris Lessing	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Comfort of Strangers	Ian McEwan	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Rhine Journey	Ann Schlee	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Loitering with Intent	Muriel Spark	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The White Hotel	D. M. Thomas	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Lord Valentine's Castle	Robert Silverberg	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Ringworld Engineers	Larry Niven	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Beyond the Blue Event Horizon	Frederik Pohl	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Wizard	John Varley	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Transit of Venus	Shirley Hazzard	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Second Coming	Walker Percy	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty	Eudora Welty	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Year of the French	Thomas Flanagan	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Executioner's Song	Norman Mailer	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Endless Love	Scott Spencer	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
War and Remembrance	Herman Wouk	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Peter the Great: His Life and World	Robert K. Massie	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times	James R. Mellow	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Orwell: The Transformation	Peter Štanský	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Dream of the Golden Mountains: Remembering the 1930s	Malcolm Cowley	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
From a Limestone Ledge	John Graves	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Naming Names	Victor S. Navasky	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
American Dreams: Lost and Found	Studs Terkel	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith	James H. Billington	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Age of Reform, 1250–1550: An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe	Steven Ozment	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture	Carl E. Schorske	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Shaping of America: A People's History of the Young Republic	Page Smith	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Godric	Frederick Buechner	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted