New Books
- Richard Bach – Jonathan Livingston Seagull
- Nina Bawden – The Birds on the Trees
- Thomas Berger – Vital Parts
- Pierre Berton – The National Dream
- Judy Blume – Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
- Jim Bouton – Ball Four
- Melvyn Bragg - A Place in England
- Wallace Breem – Eagle in the Snow
- Jimmy Breslin – The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight
- Taylor Caldwell – Great Lion of God
- John Dickson Carr – The Ghosts' High Noon
- Agatha Christie – Passenger to Frankfurt
- Roald Dahl – Fantastic Mr Fox
- Robertson Davies – Fifth Business
- L. Sprague de Camp
- The Reluctant Shaman and Other Fantastic Tales
- Warlocks and Warriors (ed.)
- Samuel R. Delany – The Fall of the Towers (Trilogy)
- James Dickey – Deliverance
- José Donoso – The Obscene Bird of Night (El obsceno pájaro de la noche)
- Lawrence Durrell – Nunquam
- J. G. Farrell – Troubles
- Shirley Hazzard – The Bay of Noon
- Anne Hébert – Kamouraska
- Ernest Hemingway – Islands in the Stream
- Susan Hill – I'm the King of the Castle
- Pamela Hansford Johnson – The Honours Board
- Anna Kavan – Julia and the Bazooka
- Jaan Kross – Between Three Plagues (part 1)
- Ira Levin – This Perfect Day
- H. P. Lovecraft – The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
- John D. MacDonald – The Long Lavender Look
- Eric Malpass – Oh My Darling Daughter
- Ruth Manning-Sanders – A Book of Devils and Demons
- Yukio Mishima – The Decay of the Angel last book in The Sea of Fertility series
- Brian Moore – Fergus
- Toni Morrison – The Bluest Eye
- Larry Niven – Ringworld
- John Jay Osborn, Jr. – The Paper Chase
- Robert W. Peterson – Only the Ball was White
- Mary Renault – Fire from Heaven
- Kurban Said – Ali and Nino
- Erich Segal – Love Story
- Sidney Sheldon – The Naked Face
- Clark Ashton Smith – Other Dimensions
- Muriel Spark – The Driver's Seat
- Mary Stewart – The Crystal Cave
- Leon Uris – QB VII
- Jack Vance – The Pnume
- Gore Vidal - Two Sisters
- E. B. White – The Trumpet Of The Swan
- Patrick White – The Vivisector
- Roger Zelazny – Nine Princes in Amber
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