| Title | Role | Award | Year | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Executioner's Song | Author | National Book Award for Fiction | 1981 | shortlisted |
| The Executioner's Song | Author | National Book Award for Fiction | 1980 | shortlisted |
| The Executioner's Song | Author | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 1980 | winner |
| The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History | Author | National Book Award for Nonfiction | 1969 | winner |
| Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968 | Author | National Book Award for Nonfiction | 1969 | shortlisted |
| Why Are We in Vietnam? | Author | National Book Award for Fiction | 1968 | shortlisted |