• The March - E.L. Doctorow
• Veronica - Mary Gaitskill
• Trance - Christopher Sorrentino
• Holy Skirts - Renè Steinke

• Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion - Alan Burdick
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius - Leo Damrosch
• 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers - Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
• Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves - Adam Hochschild

• Where Shall I Wander - John Ashbery
• Star Dust: Poems - Frank Bidart
• Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 - Brendan Galvin
• The Moment’s Equation - Vern Rutsala

• Where I Want to Be - Adele Griffin
• Inexcusable - Chris Lynch
• Autobiography of My Dead Brother - Walter Dean Myers
• Each Little Bird That Sings - Deborah Wiles

• Madeleine is Sleeping - Sarah Shun-lien Bynum
• Florida - Christine Schutt
• Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories - Joan Silber
• Our Kind - Kate Walbert

• Washington's Crossing - David Hackett Fischer
• Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett - Jennifer Gonnerman
• Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare - Stephen Greenblatt
• The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States — Authorized Edition - The 9/11 Commission

• Shoah Train - William Heyen
• Collected Poems - Donald Justice
• The Rest of Love - Carl Phillips
• Goest - Cole Swensen

• Honey, Baby, Sweetheart - Deb Caletti
• Harlem Stomp!: A Cultural History of the Harlem Renaissance - Laban Carrick Hill
• The Legend of Buddy Bush - Shelia P. Moses
• Luna: A Novel - Julie Anne Peters

• Drop City - T.C. Boyle
• The Known World - Edward P. Jones
• A Ship Made of Paper - Scott Spencer
• Evidence of Things Unseen - Marianne Wiggins

• Gulag: A History - Anne Applebaum
• The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American Summer Home - George Howe Colt
• Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin - John D'Emilio
• The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America - Erik Larson

• Sparrow - Carol Muske-Dukes
• The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems - Charles Simic
• The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems 1940-2001 - Louis Simpson
• Jelly Roll: A Blues - Kevin Young

• Breakout - Paul Fleischman
• An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 - Jim Murphy
• The River Between Us - Richard Peck
• Locomotion - Jacqueline Woodson

FICTION
Winner:  Three Junes - Julia Glass
Finalists:

• Big If - Mark Costello
• You Are Not a Stranger Here - Adam Haslett
• Gorgeous Lies - Martha McPhee
• The Heaven of Mercury - Brad Watson

NONFICTION
Winner:  Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson - Robert A. Caro
Finalists:

• When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales of Environmental Deception and the Battle Against Pollution - Devra Davis
• The Last American Man - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science - Atul Gawande
• Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes - Steve Olson

POETRY
Winner:  In the Next Galaxy - Ruth Stone
Finalists:

• Sleeping with the Dictionary - Harryette Mullen
• The Unswept Room - Sharon Olds
• The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body - Alberto Ríos
• Shadow of Heaven - Ellen Bryant Voigt

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:  The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer
Finalists:

• 19 Varieties of Gazelle:  Poems of the Middle East - Naomi Shihab Nye
• Hush - Jacqueline Woodson
• This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie - Elizabeth Partridge
• Feed - M.T. Anderson

FICTION
Winner:  The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
Finalists :

• Among the Missing - Dan Chaon
• Look at Me  - Jennifer Egan
• The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse - Louise Erdrich
• Highwire Moon - Susan Straight

NONFICTION
Winner:  The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression - Andrew Solomon
Finalists:

• American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood - Marie Arana
• The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care -  Nina Bernstein
• My Story As Told By Water - David James Duncan
• Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland - Jan T. Gross

POETRY
Winner:  Poems Seven: New and Complete Poetry - Alan Dugan
Finalists:

• Rooms Are Never Finished - Agha Shahid Ali
• Mercurochrome - Wanda Coleman
• Brutal Imagination - Cornelius Eady
• They Can't Take That Away From Me - Gail Mazur

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Winner:  True Believer - Virginia Euwer Wolff
Finalists:

• The Tiger Rising - Kate DiCamillo
• We Were There Too! Young People In U.S. History - Phillip Hoose
• A Step From Heaven - An Na
• Carver: A Life in Poems - Marylin Nelson

FICTION
Winner:  In America - Susan Sontag
Finalists :

• The Feast of Love - Charles Baxter
• The Diagnosis - Charles Lightman
• Blonde - Joyce Carol Oates
• Blue Angel - Francine Prose

NONFICTION
In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex - Nathaniel Philbrick

POETRY
Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988-2000 - Lucille Clifton

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Homeless Bird - Gloria Whelan

FICTION
Winner:  Waiting - Ha Jin
Finalists :

• House of Sand and Fog – Andre Dubus III
• Plainsong – Kent Haruf
• Hummingbird House – Patricia Henley
• Who do you Love : Stories – Jean Thompson

NONFICTION
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II  - John W. Dower

POETRY
Vice: New & Selected Poems - Ai

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
When Zachary Beaver Came to Town - Kimberly Willis Holt

FICTION
Winner:  Charming Billy - Alice McDermott
Finalists :

• Kaaterskill Falls - Allegra Goodman
• The Healing - Gayl Jones
• Damascus Gate - Robert Stone
• A Man in Full - Tom Wolfe

NONFICTION
Slaves in the Family - Edward Ball

POETRY
This Time: New and Selected Poems - Gerald Stern

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Holes - Louis Sachar

FICTION
Cold Mountain - Charles Frazier

NONFICTION
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson - Joseph J. Ellis

POETRY
Effort at Speech: New & Selected Poems - William Meredith

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Dancing on the Edge - Han Nolan

FICTION
Ship Fever and Other Stories - Andrea Barrett

NONFICTION
An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War that Came Between Us - James Carroll

POETRY
Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems 1991-1995 - Hayden Carruth

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE
Parrot in the Oven: Mi Vida - Victor Martinez

FICTION
Sabbath's Theater - Philip Roth

NONFICTION
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism - Tina Rosenberg

POETRY
Passing Through: The Later Poems - Stanley Kunitz

FICTION
A Frolic of His Own - William Gaddis

NONFICTION
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter - Sherwin B. Nuland

POETRY
A Worshipful Company of Fletchers - James Tate

FICTION
The Shipping News- E. Annie Proulx

NONFICTION
United States: Essays 1952-1992 - Gore Vidal

POETRY
Garbage - A. R. Ammons

FICTION
All the Pretty Horses - Cormac McCarthy

NONFICTION
Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story - Paul Monette

POETRY
New & Selected Poems - Mary Oliver

FICTION
Mating - Norman Rush

NONFICTION
Freedom - Orlando Patterson

POETRY
What Work Is - Philip Levine

FICTION
Middle Passage - Charles Johnson

NONFICTION
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow

FICTION
Spartina - John Casey

NONFICTION
From Beirut to Jerusalem - Thomas L. Friedman

FICTION
Paris Trout - Pete Dexter

NONFICTION
A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam - Neil Sheehan

FICTION
Paco's Story - Larry Heinemann

NONFICTION
The Making of the Atom Bomb - Richard Rhodes

FICTION
World's Fair - E. L. Doctorow

NONFICTION
Arctic Dreams - Barry Lopez

FICTION
White Noise - Don DeLillo

FIRST WORK OF FICTION
Easy in the Islands - Bob Shacochis

NONFICTION
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families - J. Anthony Lukas

FICTION
Victory over Japan: A Book of Stories - Ellen Gilchrist

FIRST WORK OF FICTION
Stones for Ibarra - Harriet Doerr

NONFICTION
Andrew Jackson & the Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845 - Robert V. Remini

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Color Purple - Alice Walker

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty - Eudora Welty

FIRST NOVEL
The Women of Brewster Place - Gloria Naylor

ORIGINAL PAPERBACK
The Red Magician - Lisa Goldstein

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller - Judith Thurman

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Time - James R. Mellow

CHILDREN'S FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Homesick: My Own Story - Jean Fritz

CHILDREN'S FICTION (PAPERBACK)
A Place Apart - Paula Fox
Marked by Fire - Joyce Carol Thomas

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
Chimney Sweeps - James Cross Giblin

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
Miss Rumphius - Barbara Cooney
Doctor De Soto - William Steig

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
A House is a House for Me - Mary Ann Hoberman; Betty Fraser, ill

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea - Fox Butterfield

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
National Defense - James Fallows

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression - Alan Brinkley

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
Utopian Thought in the Western World - Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel

POETRY
Selected Poems - Galway Kinnell
Country Music: Selected Early Poems - Charles Wright

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
"Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein - Abraham Pais

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Mathematical Experience - Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh

TRANSLATION
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal - Richard Howard

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Rabbit is Rich - John Updike

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
So Long, See You Tomorrow - William Maxwell

FIRST NOVEL
Dale Loves Sophie to Death - Robb Forman Dew

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Mornings on Horseback - David McCullough

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Walter Lippmann and the American Century - Ronald Steel

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Westmark - Lloyd Alexander

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Words by Heart - Ouida Sebestyen

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
A Penguin Year - Susan Bonners

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
Outside Over There - Maurice Sendak

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
Noah's Ark - Peter Spier

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
Naming Names - Victor S. Navasky

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879 - Father Peter John Powell

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
The Generation of 1914 - Robert Wohl

POETRY
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems - William Bronk

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind - Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists - Fred Alan Wolf

TRANSLATION
Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves - Robert Lyons Danly
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry - Ian Hideo Levy

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Plains Song - Wright Morris

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Stories of John Cheever - John Cheever

FIRST NOVEL
Sister Wolf - Ann Arensberg

GENERAL FICTION (HARDCOVER)
China Men - Maxine Hong Kingston

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Walt Whitman - Justin Kaplan

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Samuel Beckett - Deirdre Bair

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Night Swimmers - Betsy Byars

CHILDREN'S BOOK, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Ramona and Her Mother - Beverly Cleary

CHILDREN'S BOOK, NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
Mali -- Oh, Boy! Babies - Alison Cragin Herzig & Jane Lawrence

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Last Cowboy - Jane Kramer

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
Christianity, Social Tolerance and Homosexuality - John Boswell

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
Been in the Storm so Long: The Aftermath of Slavery - Leon F. Litwak

POETRY
The Need to Hold Still - Lisel Mueller

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections on Natural History - Stephen Jay Gould

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Medusa and the Snail - Lewis Thomas

TRANSLATION
The Letters of Gustave Flaubert - Francis Steegmuller
Arno Schmidt's Evening Edged in Gold - John E. Woods

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Sophie's Choice - William Styron

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The World According to Garp - John Irving

FIRST NOVEL
Birdy - William Wharton

MYSTERY (HARDCOVER)
The Green Ripper - John D. MacDonald

MYSTERY (PAPERBACK)
Stained Glass - William F. Buckley, Jr.

SCIENCE FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Jem - Frederik Pohl

SCIENCE FICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Book of the Dun Cow - Walter Wangerin, Jr.

WESTERN
Bendigo Shafter - Louis L'Amour

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Lauren Bacall by Myself - Lauren Bacall

AUTOBIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 - Malcolm Cowley

BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris

BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius - A. Scott Berg

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal - Joan W. Blos

CHILDREN'S BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
A Swiftly Tilting Planet - Madeleine L'Engle

CURRENT INTEREST (HARDCOVER)
Julia Child and More Company - Julia Child

CURRENT INTEREST (PAPERBACK)
The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Right Stuff - Tom Wolfe

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
The Complete Directory - Elder Witt, ed.

GENERAL REFERENCE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
The Complete Directory of Prime Time Network TV Shows: 1946-Present - Tim Brooks & Earle Marsh

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
The White House - Henry A. Kissinger

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century - Barbara W. Tuchman

POETRY
Ashes - Philip Levine

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (HARDCOVER)
The Gnostic Gospels - Elaine Pagels

RELIGION/INSPIRATION (PAPERBACK)
A Severe Mercy - Sheldon Vanauken

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics - Gary Zukav

TRANSLATION
Cesare Pavese's Hard Labor - William Arrowsmith
Osip E. Mandelstam's Complete Critical Prose and Letters - Jane Gary Harris & Constance Link

FICTION
Going After Cacciato - Tim O'Brien

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Robert Kennedy and His Times - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Great Gilly Hopkins - Katherine Paterson

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
The Snow Leopard - Peter Matthiessen

HISTORY
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763 - Richard Beale Davis

POETRY
Mirabell: Book of Numbers - James Merrill

TRANSLATION
Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry - Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia

FICTION
Blood Ties - Mary Lee Settle

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Samuel Johnson - W. Jackson Bate

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The View From the Oak - Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
Winners & Losers - Gloria Emerson

HISTORY
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914 - David McCullough

POETRY
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov - Howard Nemerov

TRANSLATION
Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth - Howard Nemerov

FICTION
The Spectator Bird - Wallace Stegner

BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Norman Thomas: The Last Idealist - W. A. Swanberg

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Master Puppeteer - Katherine Paterson

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales - Bruno Bettelheim

HISTORY
World of Our Fathers - Irving Howe

POETRY
Collected Poems, 1930-1976 - Richard Eberhart

TRANSLATION
Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance - Li-Li Ch'en

FICTION
Jr - William Gaddis

ARTS AND LETTERS
The Great War and Modern Memory - Paul Fussell

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Bert Breen's Barn - Walter D. Edmonds

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
Passage to Ararat - Michael J. Arlen

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 - David Brion Davis

POETRY
Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror - John Ashbery

FICTION
Dog Soldiers - Robert Stone
The Hair of Harold Roux - Thomas Williams

ARTS AND LETTERS
Marcel Proust  - Roger Shattuck
The Lives of a Cell: Notes on a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas

BIOGRAPHY
The Life of Emily Dickinson - Richard B. Sewall

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
 M. C. Higgins the Great - Virginia Hamilton

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw - Theodore Rosengarten

HISTORY
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson - Bernard Bailyn

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Anarchy, State and Utopia - Robert Nozick

POETRY
Presentation Piece - Marilyn Hacker

THE SCIENCES
Interpretation of Schizophrenia - Silvano Arieti
The Life of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher - Lewis Thomas

TRANSLATION
Miguel D. Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith - Anthony Kerrigan

FICTION
Gravity's Rainbow  - Thomas Pynchon
A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories - Isaac Bashevis Singer

ART AND LETTERS
Deeper into the Movies - Pauline Kael

BIOGRAPHY
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian - John Clive
Malcolm Lowry: A Biography - Douglas Day

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Court of the Stone Children - Eleanor Cameron

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
The Briar Patch - Murray Kempton

HISTORY
Macaulay: The Shaping of the Historian - John Clive

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Edmund Husserl: Philosopher of Infinite Tasks - Maurice Natanson

POETRY
The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 - Allen Ginsberg
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 - Adrienne Rich

THE SCIENCES
Life: The Unfinished Experiment - S. E. Luria

TRANSLATION
The Confessions of Lady Nijo - Karen Brazell
Octavio Paz's Alternating Current - Helen R. Lane
Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste - Jackson Matthews

FICTION
Chimera - John Barth
Augustus - John Williams

ARTS AND LETTERS
Diderot - Arthur M. Wilson

BIOGRAPHY
George Washington, Vol. IV: Anguish and Farewell, 1793-1799 - James Thomas Flexner

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Farthest Shore - Ursula K. LeGuin

CONTEMPORATY AFFAIRS
Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam - Frances FitzGerald

HISTORY
The Children of Pride Isaiah Trunk - Robert Manson Myers
Judenrat - Isaiah Trunk

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
A Religious History of the American People - S. E. Ahlstrom

POETRY
Collected Poems, 1951-1971 - A. R. Ammons

THE SCIENCES
The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-Prey Relations - George B. Schaller

TRANSLATION
The Aeneid of Virgil - Allen Mandelbaum

FICTION
The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor - Flannery O'Connor

ARTS AND LETTERS
The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven - Charles Rosen

BIOGRAPHY
Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt's Private Papers - Joseph P. Lash

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine or The Hithering Thithering Djinn - Donald Barthelme

CONTEMPORARY AFFAIRS
The Last Whole Earth Catalogue - Stewart Brand, ed

HISTORY
Ordeal of the Union, Vols. VII & VIII: The Organized War, 1863-1864 and The Organized War to Victory - Allan Nevins

PHILSOPHY AND RELIGION
Righteous Empire: The Protestant Experience in America - Martin E. Marty

POETRY
Selected Poems Frank O'Hara -- The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara - Howard Moss

THE SCIENCES
The Blue Whale - George L. Small

TRANSLATION
Jacques Monod's Chance and Necessity - Austryn Wainhouse

FICTION
Mr. Sammler's Planet - Saul Bellow

ARTS AND LETTERS
Cocteau: A Biography - Francis Steegmuller

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian - Lloyd Alexander

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom - James MacGregor Burns

POETRY
To See, To Take - Mona Van Duyn

THE SCIENCES
Science in the British Colonies of America - Raymond Phineas Sterns

TRANSLATION
Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards - Frank Jones
Yasunari Kawabata's The Sound of The Mountain - Edward G. Seidensticker

FICTION
Them - Joyce Carol Oates

ARTS AND LETTERS
An Unfinished Woman: A Memoir - Lillian Hellman

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
A Day of Pleasure: Stories of a Boy Growing up in Warsaw - Isaac Bashevis Singer

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Huey Long - T. Harry Williams

POETRY
The Complete Poems - Elizabeth Bishop

PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Gandhi's Truth: On the Origins of Militant Nonviolence - Erik H. Erikson

TRANSLATION
Celine's Castle to Castle - Ralph Manheim

FICTION
Steps - Jerzy Konsinski

ARTS AND LETTERS
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History - Norman Mailer

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Journey from Peppermint Street - Meindert DeJong

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 - Winthrop D. Jordan

POETRY
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest - John Berryman

THE SCIENCES
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima - Robert J. Lifton

TRANSLATION
Calvino's Cosmicomics - William Weaver

FICTION
The Eighth Day - Thornton Wilder

ARTS AND LETTERS
Selected Essays - William Troy

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
Memoirs: 1925-1950 - George F. Kennan

POETRY
The Light Around the Body - Robert Bly

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
Death at an Early Age - Jonathan Kozol

TRANSLATION
Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers - Howard & Edna Hong

FICTION
The Fixer - Bernard Malamud

ARTS AND LETTERS
Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography - Justin Kaplan

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
The Enlightenment, Vol. I: An Interpretation the Rise of Modern Paganism - Peter Gay

POETRY
Nights and Days - James Merrill

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
La Vida - Oscar Lewis

TRANSLATION
Julio Cortazar's Hopscotch Willard Trask -- Casanova's History of My Life - Gregory Rabassa

FICTION
The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter - Katherine Anne Porter

ARTS AND LETTERS
Paris Journal, 1944-1965 - Janet Flanner

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
A Thousand Days - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr

POETRY
Buckdancer's Choice: Poems - James Dickey

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
No award given

FICTION
Herzog - Saul Bellow

ARTS AND LETTERS
Oysters of Lockmariaquer  - Eleanor Clark

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
The Life of Lenin - Louis Fischer

POETRY
The Far Field - Theodore Roethke

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION
God and Golem, Inc: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion - Norbert Wiener

FICTION
The Centaur - John Updike

ARTS AND LETTERS (NONFICTION)
John Keats: The Making of a Poet  - Aileen Ward

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY (NONFICTION)
The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community - William H. McNeill

SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION (NONFICTION)
Man-made America - Christopher Tunnard & Boris Pushkarev

POETRY
Selected Poems - John Crowe Ransom

FICTION
Morte D'Urban - J. F. Powers

NONFICTION
Henry James, Vol. II: The Conquest of London, Henry James, Vol. III: The Middle Years - Leon Edel

POETRY
Traveling Through the Dark - William Stafford

FICTION
The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

NONFICTION
The City in History: Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects - Lewis Mumford

POETRY
Poems - Alan Dugan

FICTION
The Waters of Kronos - Conrad Richter

NONFICTION
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - William L. Shirer

POETRY
The Woman at the Washington Zoo - Randall Jarrell

FICTION
Goodbye, Columbus - Philip Roth

NONFICTION
James Joyce - Richard Ellmann

POETRY
Life Studies - Robert Lowell

FICTION
The Magic Barrel - Bernard Malamud

NONFICTION
Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame De Stael - J. Christopher Herold

POETRY
Words for the Wind - Theodore Roethke

FICTION
The Wapshot Chronicle - John Cheever

NONFICTION
The Lion and the Throne - Catherine Drinker Bowen

POETRY
Promises: Poems, 1954-1956 - Robert Penn Warren

FICTION
The Field of Vision - Wright Morris

NONFICTION
Russia Leaves the War - George F. Kennan

POETRY
Things of the World - Richard Wilbur

FICTION
Ten North Frederick - John O'Hara

NONFICTION
An American in Italy - Herbert Kubly

POETRY
The Shield of Achilles - W.H. Auden

FICTION
A Fable - William Faulkner

NONFICTION
The Measure of Man - Joseph Wood Krutch

POETRY
The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens - Wallace Stevens

FICTION
The Adventures of Augie March - Saul Bellow

NONFICTION
The Stillness at Appomattox - Bruce Catton

POETRY
Collected Poems - Conrad Aiken

FICTION
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison

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The Course of an Empire - Bernard A. De Voto

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Collected Poems, 1917-1952 - Archibald MacLeish

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From Here to Eternity - James Jones

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The Sea Around Us - Rachel Carson

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Collected Poems - Marianne Moore

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The Collected Stories of William Faulkner - William Faulkner

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Herman Melville - Newton Arvin

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The Auroras of Autumn - Wallace Stevens

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The Man With The Golden Arm - Nelson Algren

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Ralph Waldo Emerson - Ralph L. Rusk

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Paterson: Book III and Selected Poems - William Carlos Williams