1969 in Literature - New Prose Fiction

New Prose Fiction

• Paul Gallico- The Poseidon Adventure
• Jorge Amado – Tenda dos Milagres (Tent of Miracles)
• Kingsley Amis – The Green Man
• Poul Anderson – Satan's World
• William H. Armstrong – Sounder
• Penelope Ashe – Naked Came the Stranger
• Margaret Atwood – The Edible Woman
• Ray Bradbury – I Sing the Body Electric
• Melvyn Bragg – The Hired Man
• William S. Burroughs – The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
• Eric Carle – The Very Hungry Caterpillar
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline – Rigadoon
• Agatha Christie – Hallowe'en Party
• Merton H. Coleman – That Godless Woman
• March Cost – The Veiled Sultan
• Michael Crichton – The Andromeda Strain
• John Cheever – Bullet Park
• A. J. Cronin – A Pocketful of Rye
• L. Sprague de Camp – The Golden Wind
• Marion Eames – Y Stafell Ddirgel (The Secret Room)
• John Fowles – The French Lieutenant's Woman
• George MacDonald Fraser – Flashman
• Graham Greene – Travels with My Aunt
• Sam Greenlee – The Spook Who Sat By the Door
• Günter Grass – Local Anaesthetic (Örtlich betäubt)
• Frank Herbert – Dune Messiah
• Robert E. Howard, L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter – Conan of Cimmeria
• David H. Keller – The Folsom Flint and Other Curious Tales
• Ursula Le Guin – The Left Hand of Darkness
• Elmore Leonard – The Big Bounce
• Doris Lessing – The Four-Gated City
• H. P. Lovecraft and Others – Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
• John D. MacDonald – Dress Her in Indigo
• Yukio Mishima – Runaway Horses
• Michael Moorcock – Behold the Man
• C. L. Moore – Jirel of Joiry
• Vladimir Nabokov – Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
• V. S. Naipaul – A House for Mr Biswas
• Don Pendleton – War Against The Mafia
• Chaim Potok – The Promise
• Manuel Puig – Little Painted Mouths
• Mario Puzo – The Godfather
• Ellery Queen – The Campus Murders
• Pauline Réage – Retour à Roissy
• Mordecai Richler – The Street
• Harold Robbins – The Inheritors
• Philip Roth – Portnoy's Complaint
• Irwin Shaw – Rich Man, Poor Man
• Raymond Spence – Nothing Black But a Cadillac
• Rex Stout – Death of a Dude
• Edward Streeter – Ham Martin, Class of '17
• Jacqueline Susann – The Love Machine
• Theodore Taylor – The Cay
• Colin Thiele – Blue Fin
• Jack Vance
  • The Dirdir
  • Emphyrio
  • Servants of the Wankh
• Mario Vargas Llosa – Conversation in the Cathedral
• Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse-Five
• Irving Wallace – The Seven Minutes
• Roger Zelazny
  • Creatures of Light and Darkness
  • Damnation Alley
  • Isle of the Dead