Non-fiction
- Carl Bernstein & Bob Woodward – All the President's Men
- Vincent Bugliosi - Helter Skelter
- Shelby Foote – The Civil War: A Narrative – Vol 3: Red River to Appomattox
- Jonathan Raban - Soft City
- Piers Paul Read - Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
- Lewis Thomas – The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher
- Joseph Wambaugh - The Onion Field
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