| Arts 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 |
| Fiction | Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon |
| A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories, Isaac Bashevis Singer |
| 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, 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' Alternating Current, Helen R. Lane |
| Paul Valery's Monsieur Teste, Jackson Mathews |
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