Non-fiction
- Pierre Berton – The Last Spike
- Carlos Castaneda – A Separate Reality: Further Conversations with Don Juan
- Robert Coles
- Migrants, Sharecroppers, Mountaineers, vol 2 of Children of Crisis – Pulitzer Prize, 1973
- The South Goes North, vol 3 of Children of Crisis – Pulitzer Prize, 1973
- Brian J. Ford – Nonscience
- Robert Foster – The Complete Guide to Middle-earth
- Joan Garrity – The Sensuous Woman
- Graham Greene – A Sort of Life
- Xaviera Hollander – The Happy Hooker: My Own Story
- H. P. Lovecraft – Selected Letters III (1929–1931)
- Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel – Hess: A Biography
- Alison Plowden – Young Elizabeth
- B. F. Skinner – Beyond Freedom and Dignity
- Pierre Vallières – White Niggers of America (translation)
- Tom Wolfe - The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
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