Title	Author	Shortlisted
Rabbit is Rich	John Updike	National Book Award for Fiction winner Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner
Schindler's Ark	Thomas Keneally	Booker Prize for Fiction winner
Young Shoulders	John Wain	Costa Book Award for Novel winner
Downbelow Station	C. J. Cherryh	Hugo Award for Best Novel winner
So Long, See You Tomorrow	William Maxwell	National Book Award for Fiction winner
Mornings on Horseback	David McCullough	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
The Soul of a New Machine	Tracy Kidder	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830–1879	Peter J. Powell	National Book Award for Nonfiction winner
Em Liberdade	Sylviano Santiago	Prêmio Jabuti Romance Literário winner
A Flag for Sunrise	Robert Stone	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Silence Among the Weapons	John Arden	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
An Ice-Cream War	William Boyd	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Constance or Solitary Practices	Lawrence Durrell	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The 27th Kingdom	Alice Thomas Ellis	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
Sour Sweet	Timothy Mo	Booker Prize for Fiction shortlisted
The Claw of the Conciliator	Gene Wolfe	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
The Many-Colored Land	Julian May	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Project Pope	Clifford D. Simak	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Little, Big	John Crowley	Hugo Award for Best Novel shortlisted
Ellis Island and Other Stories	Mark Helprin	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Hotel New Hampshire	John Irving	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Dad	William Wharton	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Loon Lake	E. L. Doctorow	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Transit of Venus	Shirley Hazzard	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
The Second Coming	Walker Percy	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Morgan's Passing	Anne Tyler	National Book Award for Fiction shortlisted
Waldo Emerson: A Biography	Gay Wilson Allen	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello	Dumas Malone	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Grant: A Biography	William S. McFeely	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Beechers	Milton Rugoff	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays	Guy Davenport	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
National Defense	James Fallows	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession	Janet Malcolm	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Russian Journal	Andrea Lee	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline	Ray Huang	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East	Donald Neff	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944–1945	Russell F. Weigley	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Mary Chestnut's Civil War	C. Vann Woodward	National Book Award for Nonfiction shortlisted
Housekeeping	Marilynne Robinson	Pulitzer Prize for Fiction shortlisted