American Fiction, 1960-1975
(some British)

1960

  • Advise and Consent by Allen Drury, Pulitzer Prize
  • Note: Pulitzer Prizes are won the year after publication.
  • Brian Aldiss, Galaxies Like Grains of Sand
  • Poul Anderson, The High Crusade 
  • Louis Auchincloss, The House of Five Talents
  • John Barth, The Sot-Weed Factor 
  • Kay Boyle, Generation without a Farewell
  • Algis Budrys, Rogue Moon (Hugo Award)
  • Taylor Caldwell, The Listener
  • Mary Ellen Chase, The Lovely Ambition
  • Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
  • Marcia Davenport, Constant Image
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. FuturityVulcan’s Hammer
  • P. D. Eastman, Are You My Mother? (children’s)
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Dr. Seuss’s ABCsGreen Eggs & Ham; One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (children’s)
  • John O’Hara, Sermons and Soda Water
  • Harry Harrison, Deathworld 1; Deathworld 2 & 3 (1964 and 1968)
  • John Hersey, The Child Buyer (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • John Knowles, A Separate Peace
  • D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover (unexpurgated version pub. by Penguin of the 1928 novel)
  • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
  • Olivia Manning, The Great Fortune
  • Gavin Maxwell, The Ring of Bright Water
  • Judith Merril, The Tomorrow People
  • Wright Morris, Ceremony in Lone Tree
  • Andre Norton, Storm Over Warlock
  • Scott O’Dell, Island of the Blue Dolphins (children’s novel)
  • John O’Hara, Ourselves to KnowSermons and Soda Water
  • Frederik Pohl, Drunkard’s Walk
  • Robert Sheckley, The Status Civilization
  • C.P. Snow, The Affair
  • Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Elizabeth Spencer, The Light in the Plaza and other Italian Tales
  • Francis Steegmuller, The Christening Party
  • Theodore Sturgeon, Venus Plus X
  • John Updike, Rabbit, Run
  • Mildred Walker, The Body of a Young Man
  • Irving Wallace, The Chapman report
  • Keith Wheeler, Peaceable Lane
  • Colin Wilson, Ritual in the Dark

1961

  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Pulitzer Prize
  • Brian Aldiss, The Primal Urge
  • James Blish, The Star Dwellers; Titan’s Daughter
  • Lucy M. Boston, A Stranger at Green Knowe
  • Sheila Burnford, The Incredible Journey (children’s)
  • Taylor Caldwell, A Prologue to Love
  • Hortense Calisher, False Entry
  • John Dickson Carr, The Witch of the Low Tide
  • Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse
  • Edwin O’Connor, The Edge of Sadness
  • Roald Dahl, James and The Giant Peach (children’s)
  • August Derleth, The Reminiscences of Solar Pons 
  • Al Dewlen, Twilight of Honor
  • George P. Elliott, Among the Dangs
  • Ian Fleming, Thunderball (from the James Bond Series)
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, The Sneetches & Other Stories 
  • Graham Greene, A Burnt-out Case
  • Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Joseph Heller, Catch-22
  • Cecil Jenkins, Message from Sirius
  • Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (children’s)
  • Alistair MacLean, The Black Shrike
  • Bernard Malamud, A New Life
  • William Manchester, The Long Gainer
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, No One Writes to the Colonel
  • William Maxwell, The Chateau
  • Larry McMurtry, Horseman, Pass By (Thalia: Texas Trilogy 1)
  • V.S. Naipul, A House for Mr. Biswas
  • Andre Norton, Catseye
  • Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
  • Kin Platt, The Blue Man
  • Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows (children’s)
  • Harold Robbins, The Carpetbaggers
  • J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
  • Isaac B. Singer, The Spinoza of Market Street and other Stories
  • C.P. Snow, Science and Government
  • Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Elizabeth George Speare, The Bronze Bow (children’s; Newbery Medal)
  • John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
  • Irving Stone, The Agony and The Ecstasy
  • Theodore Sturgeon, Some of your Blood; Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea
  • Leon Uris, Mila 18
  • Edward Lewis Wallant, The Pawnbroker
  • Evelyn Waugh, Unconditional Surrender
  • Morris West, Daughter of Silence
  • Joan Williams, The Morning and the Evening
  • Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (National Book Award)

1962

  • The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O’Connor, Pulitzer
  • James Baldwin, Another Country
  • J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World
  • James Blish, A Life for the StarsThe Night Shapes
  • Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • Marcia Brown, Once a Mouse . . .(children’s; Caldecott Medal)
  • Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler, Fail-Safe
  • Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
  • John Brunner, Secret Agent of Terra; The Super Barbarians
  • Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
  • William S. Burroughs, The Ticket That Exploded
  • Agatha Christie, The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
  • James Clavell, King Rat
  • Philip K. Dick,The Man in the High Castle
  • William Faulkner, The Reivers
  • Ian Fleming, The Spy Who Loved Me (from the James Bond Series)
  • C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Hotspot (from the Horatio Hornblower Series)
  • Richard Hughes, The Fox in the Attic
  • Aldous Huxley, Island
  • Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle
  • James Jones, The Thin Red Line
  • Ezra Jack Keats, The Snowy Day (children’s; Caldecott Medal)
  • Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
  • Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey, Seven Days in May
  • Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (Newbery Medal, Lewis Carrol Shelf Award)
  • Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
  • Alistair MacLean, The Golden Rendezvous and The Satan Bug
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, In Evil Hour
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire
  • Katherine Ann Porter, Ship of Fools
  • Dawn Powell, The Golden Spur
  • F.D. Reeve, Great Soviet Short Stories
  • Mary Renault, The Bull from the Sea
  • Philip Roth, Letting Go
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn, A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch; Cancer Ward
  • John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America
  • Rex Stout, Gambit
  • Rex Stout, Homicide Trinity
  • John Upton Terrell, Journey into Darkness
  • John Updike, Pigeon Feathers and other Stories
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
  • Bernard Waber, The House on East 88thStreet (children’s) 
  • Irving Wallace, The Prize
  • Donald E. Westlake, The Hunter
  • Herman Wouk, Youngblood Hawke

1963

  • The Reivers by William Faulkner, Pulitzer (posthumously)
  • J. G. Ballard, The 4-Dimensional Nightmare
  • Pierre Boulle, Planet of the Apes
  • Pearl S. Buck, The Living Reed
  • Edgar Rice Burroughs, Savage Pellucidar (Short Story) (Hugo Award)
  • Hester Burton, Time of Trial (Carnegie Medal)
  • Taylor Caldwell, The Late Clara Beame and Grandmother and the Priests
  • John le Carre, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Agatha Christie, The Clocks
  • Arthur C. Clarke, Dolphin Island (children’s novel)
  • Philip K. Dick, The Game-Players of Titan
  • T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1909-1962
  • Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service; You Only Live Twice
  • John Fowles, The Collector
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Hop on Pop (children’s)
  • Edward Gorey, The Gashlycrumb Tinies
  • Robert Heinlein, Glory Road (Hugo Award)
  • Norton Juster, The Dot and the Line
  • Alistair MacLean, Ice Station Zebra
  • Bernard Malamud, Idiots First
  • Mary McCarthy, The Group
  • Larry McMurtry, Leaving Cheyenne (Thalia: Texas Trilogy 2)
  • James Michener, Caravans
  • Farley Mowat, Never Cry Wolf
  • Emily Cheney Neville, It’s Like This, Cat (children’s)
  • Andre Norton, Witch World (Hugo Award)
  • John O’Hara, Elizabeth Appleton
  • Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
  • Rick Raphael, Code Three (short story; Hugo Award)
  • John Rechy, City of Night
  • William Saroyan, Not Dying; and Boys and Girls Together
  • Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (children’s; Caldecott Medal)
  • Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
  • Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg, Candy
  • Rex Stout, The Mother Hunt
  • Harvey Swados, The Will
  • Walter Tevis, The Man Who Fell to Earth
  • Jim Thompson, The Grifters
  • John Updike, The Centaur (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
  • Charles Webb, The Graduate (Novella)

1964

  • No Pulitzer Prize awarded.
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Book of Three (From The Chronicles of Prydain)
  • Louis Auchincloss, The Rector of Justin
  • Poul Anderson, No Truce with Kings (novella) (Hugo Award)
  • J. G. Ballard, The Terminal Beach (Short Story Collection)
  • Stephen Becker, A Covenant with Death
  • Saul Bellow, Herzog
  • Thomas Berger, Little Big Man
  • James Blish, Doctor Mirabilis (re Franciscan friar, Roger Bacon)
  • Leigh Brackett, People of the Talisman
  • Ray Bradbury, The Machineries of Joy (Short Story Collection)
  • Jeff Brown, Flat Stanley(children’s)
  • John Brunner, The Whole Man (Hugo Award)
  • William S. Burroughs, Nova Express
  • Agatha Christie, A Caribbean Mystery
  • Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (children’s) 
  • Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
  • Louise Fitzhugh, Harriet The Spy (children’s novel)
  • Ian Fleming, You Only Live Twice (from the James Bond Series)
  • Dick Francis, Nerve
  • Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House
  • John Hawkes, Second Skin
  • Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (Fiction Memoir)
  • Irene Hunt, Across Five Aprils (Newbery Honor)
  • Storm Jameson, The Blind Heart
  • Bel Kaufman, Up the Down Staircase
  • Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Richard Kim, The Martyred
  • Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, Convention
  • H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels (Novel Collection)
  • John D. MacDonald, The Quick Red Fox
  • Wallace Markfield, To an Early Grave
  • Jean Merrill, The Pushcart War (children’s novel) 
  • Robert Murphy, The Pond(young adult)
  • Vladimir Nabokov, The Defense
  • Brian O’Nolan, The Dalkey Archive
  • Jeremy Potter, Hazard Chase
  • Thomas Pynchon, V
  • Ruth Rendell, From Doon with Death
  • William Saroyan, One Day in the Afternoon of the World
  • Herbert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • Isaac B. Singer, Short Friday
  • Shel Silverstein, The Giving Tree (children’s)
  • Mary Stewart, This Rough Magic
  • Rex Stout, A Right to DieTrio for Blunt Instruments (Novella Collection) 
  • Leon Uris, Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin
  • Jack Vance, Star King (From the Demon Prince Series)
  • Gore Vidal, Julian
  • Irving Wallace, The Man
  • David Westheimer, Von Ryan’s Express
  • Roger Zelazny, A Rose for Ecclesiastes (Short Story) (Hugo Award)

1965

  • The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau, Pulitzer
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Black Cauldron
  • James Blish, Mission to the Heart Stars 
  • John Brunner, The Martian SphinxThe Squares of the City
  • Kenneth Bulmer, Land Beyond the Map
  • Taylor Caldwell, A Pillar of Iron and Wicked Angel
  • Terry Carr, World’s Best Science Fiction: 1965 (Anthology of Short Stories)
  • John le Carre, The Looking Glass War
  • John Stewart Carter, Full Fathom Five
  • Philip K. Dick, Dr. BloodmoneyThe Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
  • Thomas M. Disch, The Genocides
  • Philip José Farmer, The Maker of Universes
  • Ian Fleming, The Man with the Golden Gun (From the James Bond Series)
  • Jesse Hill Ford, The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Fox in Socks (children’s)
  • Harry Harrison, Bill the Galactic Hero
  • Frank Herbert, The Dune Series
  • John Hersey, White Lotus
  • S. E. Hinton, Rumble Fish
  • Jerzy Kosinski, The Painted Bird
  • Margaret Lane, A Night at Sea
  • Madeleine L’Engle, The Arm of the Starfish
  • John D. MacDonald, A Deadly Shade of Gold
  • Norman Mailer, An American Dream 
  • Peter Matthiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord
  • James Merrill, The (Diblos) Notebook
  • James Michener,The Source 
  • Robin Moore, The Green Berets
  • Flannery O’Connor, Everything that Rises must Converge
  • Katherine Anne Porter, The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter
  • E.M Nathanson, The Dirty Dozen
  • Harry Petrakis, Pericles on 31stStreet
  • H. Beam Piper, Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen
  • Clifford D. Simak, All Flesh is Grass
  • Muriel Spark, The Mandelbaum Gate
  • Irving Stone, Those Who Love (John and Abigail Adams)
  • Rex Stout, The Doorbell Rang
  • Jack Vance, Space Opera
  • Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
  • Morris West, The Ambassador
  • John Williams, Stoner
  • Herman Wouk, Don’t Stop the Carnival
  • Roger Zelanzy, This Immortal
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley, Star of Danger

1966

  • The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne PorterPulitzer
  • Lloyd Alexander, The Castle of Llyr (From The Chronicles of Prydain)
  • Louis Auchincloss, The Embezzler (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • J. G. Ballard, The Crystal World
  • James Blish, Welcome to Mars
  • Paul Bowles, Up Above the World
  • Ray Bradbury, S is for Space
  • Pearl S. Buck, The Time is Noon
  • Taylor Caldwell, No One Hears But Him
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard, Conan the Adventurer
  • Terry Carr, World’s Best Science Fiction: 1966 (Anthology of Short Stories)
  • Agatha Christie, Third Girl
  • James Clavell, Tai-Pan
  • Robert Crichton, The Secret of Saint Vittoria
  • Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
  • R.F. Delderfield, A Horseman Riding By
  • Philip K. Dick, Now Wait for Last YearThe Crack in Space
  • Allen Drury, Capable of Honor
  • Irving Faust, The Steagle
  • Ian Fleming, Octopussy and The Living Daylights (from the James Bond Series)
  • William H. Gass, Omensetter’s Luck
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Come Over to My House (children’s)
  • Jon and Rummer Godden, Two Under the Indian Sun
  • Graham Greene, The Comedians
  • Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!
  • Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
  • Frank Herbert, The Green Brain
  • Ursula K. LeGuin, Planet of Exile
  • John D. MacDonald, One Fearful Yellow Eye
  • Alistair MacLean, When Eight Bells Toll 
  • Helen MacInnes, The Double Image
  • Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
  • David Markson, The Ballad of Dingus Magee
  • Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show (Thalia: Texas Trilogy 3; Duane Moore series)
  • Larry Niven, World of Ptavvs
  • Edwin O’Connor, All in the Family
  • Walker Percy, The Last Gentleman
  • Thomas Pynchon, The Crying Lot of 49
  • Mary Renault, The Mask of Apollo
  • Harold Robbins, The Adventurers
  • William Saroyan, Short Drive, Sweet Chariot
  • Paul Scott, The Jewel in the Crown
  • James H. Schmitz, The Witches of Karres (Hugo Award)
  • Wilfred Sheed, Office Politics
  • Rex Stout, Death of a Doxy
  • Jacqueline Susann, Valley of The Dolls
  • Jack Vance, The Eyes of the Overworld
  • Rebecca West, The Birds Fall Down

1967

  • The Fixer by Bernard MalamudPulitzer
  • Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer (4th in the Chronicles of Prydain series)
  • J. G. Ballard, The Disaster Area
  • Richard Bautigan, Trout Fishing in America
  • James Blish, Star Trek (novelization of the TV episodes); Warriors of Day
  • Pearl S. Buck, The Three Daughters of Madame Liang
  • Taylor Caldwell, Dialogues with the Devil
  • L. Sprague de Camp & Robert E. Howard, Conan the UsurperConan the Warrior
  • John Cheever, Bullet Park
  • Agatha Christie, Endless Night
  • Margaret Craven,I heard the owl call my name.
  • William Decker, To Be A Man
  • Samuel R. Delany, The Einstein Intersection (Nebula Award)
  • Scott O’Dell, The Black Pearl (Newberry Medal)
  • Philip K. Dick, Counter-Clock World
  • Harlan Ellison, Dangerous VisionsI have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (short story; Hugo Award)
  • C. S. Forester, Hornblower and the Crisis (from the Horatio Hornblower Series)
  • Sarah Gainham, Night Falls on the City
  • S. E. Hinton, The Outsiders
  • Elia Kazan, The Arrangement
  • E. L. Konigsburg, The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Newbery Medal)
  • Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby
  • Alistair MacLean, Where Eagles Dare
  • William Manchester, The City of Anger
  • Daniel P. Mannix, The Fox and the Hound
  • Catherine Marshall, Christy
  • Bill Martin, Jr., Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (children’s)
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • Catherine Marshall, Christy
  • Anne McCaffrey, Dragonriders of Pern
  • V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men
  • George Clayton Johnson and William F. Nolan, Logan’s Run
  • Joyce Carol Oates, A Garden of Earthly Delights
  • Ingri & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire, Norse Gods and Giants (children’s)
  • Chaim Potok, The Chosen
  • Philip Roth, When She Was Good
  • Robert Shaw, The Man in the Glass Booth
  • Robert Silverberg, Thorns
  • Norman Spinrad, Bug Jack Barron
  • Mary Stewart, The Gabriel Hounds
  • Adela Rogers St. Johns, Tell No Man
  • William Styron, The Confessions of Nat Turner
  • Henry Sutton, The Exhibitionist
  • Leon Uris, Topaz
  • Irving Wallace, The Plot
  • Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • Donald A. Wollheim, World’s Best Science Fiction: 1967 (Short Story Anthology)
  • Roger Zelanzy, Lord of Light (Hugo Award)

1968

  • The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron, Pulitzer
  • Lloyd Alexander, The High King (Newberry Medal)
  • Kingsley Amis, Colonel Sun
  • Penelope Ashe, Naked Came the Strange
  • John Barth, Lost in the Funhouse
  • Peter Beagle, The Last Unicorn
  • James Blish, Black EasterStar Trek 2The Vanished Jet: A Story of Intrigue
  • Richard Brautigan,In Watermelon Sugar
  • Martin Caidin, The God Machine
  • Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Two Men
  • John le Carre, A Small Town in Germany
  • Taylor Caldwell, Testimony of Two Men
  • Agatha Christie, By the Pricking of My Thumbs
  • Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Gwen Davis, The Pretenders
  • Samuel R. Delany, Nova
  • Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
  • Allen Drury, Preserve and Protect
  • Frederick Exley, A Fan’s Notes
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, The Foot Book (children’s)
  • Arthur Hailey, Airport
  • Esther Hautzig, The Endless Steppe (National Book Award for Children’s Books)
  • Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Robert E. Howard, Conan the Wanderer
  • John Irving, Setting Free the Bears
  • Alexander Key, Escape to Witch Mountain
  • Fletcher Knebel, Vanished
  • Dean Koontz, Star Quest
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
  • John D. MacDonald, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
  • Helen MacInnes, The Salzburg Connection
  • Alistair MacLean, Force Ten from Navarone
  • Anne McCaffrey, Dragonflight
  • N. Scott Momaday, House Made of Dawn
  • Anton Myrer, Once an Eagle
  • Larry Niven, A Gift from Earth
  • Joyce Carol Oates, Expensive People
  • Alexei Panshin,Rite of Passage 
  • Charles Portis, True Grit
  • Harold Robbins, The Inheritors
  • Thomas Rogers, The Pursuit of Happiness
  • William Saroyan, I Used to Believe I Had Forever, Now I’m Not So Sure
  • Paul Scott, The Day of the Scorpion
  • Robert Silverberg, The Masks of Time (Nebula Award)
  • Clifford D. Simak, The Goblin Reservation
  • Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle
  • Jacqueline Susann, The Love Machine
  • John Updike, Couples
  • Jack Vance, City of Chasch
  • Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge
  • Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
  • Morris L. West, The Tower of Babel
  • Tom Wolfe’s, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
  • Donald A. Wollheim,  World’s Best Science Fiction: 1968 (Short Story Anthology)
  • Paul Zindel, The Pigman

1969

  • House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday, Pulitzer
  • Piers Anthony, Macroscope
  • William H. Armstrong, Sounder
  • Isaac Asimov, Nightfall and Other Stories (Short Story Collection)
  • James Blish, Star Trek 3-12 (1969-1977)
  • Ray Bradbury, I Sing the Body Electric (Short Story Collection)
  • Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
  • Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar
  • Michael Crichton, The Andromeda Strain
  • Philip K. Dick, Galactic Pot-HealerUbik
  • John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman
  • Paul Gallico, The Poseidon Adventure
  • Gerald Green, To Brooklyn with Love
  • Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (Hugo & Nebula Awards)
  • Alistair MacLean, Puppet on a Chain
  • Bernard Malamud, Pictures of Fidelman
  • Anne McCaffrey, Decision at DoonaThe Ship Who Sang
  • Michael Moorcock, The Black Corridor
  • Robin Moore, The French Connection
  • Vladimir Nabokov,Ada: A Family Chronicle
  • Joyce Carol Oates, Them (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • Patrick O’Brian, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
  • Chaim Potok, The Promise
  • Mario Puzo, The Godfather
  • Mary Renault, Fire from Heaven (Alexander the Great)
  • Philip Roth, Portney’s Complaint
  • Bernice Rubens, The Elected Member
  • William Saroyan, Letters from 74 rue Taitbout
  • Robert Silverberg, Up the Line
  • Jean Stafford, The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford
  • Christopher Stasheff, The Warlock in Spite of Himself
  • Theodore Taylor, The Cay (Jay Addams Children’s Book Award)
  • Jack Vance, The DirdirEmphyrio
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
  • Richard Wilbur, Walking to Sleep (poetry)
  • Roger Zelanzy, Creatures of Light and DarknessIsle of the Dead

1970

  • The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, Pulitzer
  • Poul Anderson, Tau Zero
  • Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull
  • J. G. Ballard, The Atrocity Exhibition
  • Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler’s Planet
  • James Blish, Spock Must Die!
  • Judy Blume, Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret.
  • Betsy Byars, Summer of the Swans (Newberry Medal)
  • Taylor Caldwell, Great Lion of God
  • Agatha Christie, Passenger to Frankfurt
  • Roald Dahl, Fantastic Mr. Fox (children’s)
  • Phillip K. Dick, A Maze of Death
  • Jack Finney, Time and Again
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Mr. Brown Can Moo (children’s)
  • Ernest Hemingway, Islands in the Stream
  • Irene Hunt, No Promises in the Wind
  • Ronald Laing, Knots
  • John D. MacDonald, The Long Lavender Look
  • William Manchester, Shadow of the Monsoon
  • Larry McMurtry, Moving On (Houston series)
  • Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye
  • Larry Niven, Ringworld
  • Bill Peet, The Wump World (children’s)
  • Joanna Russ, And Chaos Died
  • Erich Segal, Love Story
  • Maurice Sendak, In the Night Kitchen (children’s; Caldecott Medal)
  • Sidney Sheldon, The Naked Face(Edgar Allen Poe Award)
  • Robert Silverberg, Tower of Glass; The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One, 1929-1964
  • C.P. Snow, Last Things
  • Muriel Spark, The Driver’s Seat
  • Harry Clement Stubbs, Star Light
  • William Tucker, The Year of the Quiet Sun (John W. Campbell Award)
  • Leon Uris, QB VII
  • E. B. White,The Trumpet of the Swan
  • Roger Zelanzy, Nine Princes in Amber

1971

  • No Pulitzer awarded.
  • Beatrice Sparks, Go Ask Alex
  • William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist
  • James Blish, And All the Stars a Stage; The Day after Judgment
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley, The World Wreckers
  • Richard Brautigan, Revenge of the Lawn (Short Story)
  • Charles Bukowski, Post Office
  • Agatha Christie, Nemesis; The Golden Ball and Other Stories
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Lin Carter, Conan the Buccaneer
  • E. L Doctorow, The Book of Daniel
  • Philip José Farmer, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (Lotus Award)
  • Frederick Forsyth, The Day of the Jackel
  • Ernest J. Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
  • John Gardner, Grendel
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, The Lorax (children’s)
  • S. E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now
  • Ken Kesey, Sometimes a Great Notion
  • Ursula K. LeGuin, The Lathe of Heaven (Locus Award)
  • Doris Lessing,Briefing for a Descent into Hell (Booker Prize)
  • John D. MacDonald, A Tan and Sandy Silence
  • Alistair MacLean, Bear Island
  • Anne McCaffrey, Dragonquest
  • James Michener, The Drifters
  • Walker Percy, Love in the Ruins (National Award for Fiction)
  • Philip Roth, Our Gang
  • Paul Scott, The Towers of Silence
  • Hubert Selby Jr., The Room
  • Robert Silverberg, A Time of Changes (Nebula Award)
  • Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose
  • Irving Stone,The Passions of the Mind (Freud)
  • Gay Telese, Honor Thy Father
  • Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
  • Tom Tyron, The Other
  • John Updike, Rabbit Redux
  • Donald A. Wollheim, World’s Best Science Fiction: 1971 (Short Story Anthology)
  • Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
  • Roger Zelanzy, Jack of Shadows (Hugo & Locus Awards)

1972

  • Angle of Repose by William Stegner, Pulitzer
  • Richard Adams, Watership Down
  • James Blish, Midsummer Century
  • Marion Zimmer Bradley, Darkover Landfall
  • John Brunner, The Sheep Look Up (Nebula Award, Locus Award)
  • Janet Burroway and John Vernon Lord, The Giant Jam Sandwich (children’s)
  • Taylor Caldwell, Captains and the Kings
  • Catherine Crook de Camp, 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction
  • Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
  • Agatha Christie, Elephants Can Remember
  • Arthur C. Clarke, The Wind from the Sun
  • Michael Crichton, BinaryThe Terminal Man
  • Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
  • Philip K. Dick, We Can Build You
  • Thomas M. Disch, 334 (Nebula Award)
  • Frederick Forsyth, The Odessa File
  • Alan Dean Foster, The Tar-Aiym Krang
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now (children’s)
  • David Gerrold, When Harlie Was One
  • Frank Herbert, The Godmakers
  • John Irving, The Water Method Man
  • Ira Levin, The Stepford Wives
  • Robert Ludlum,The Osterman Weekend
  • John D. MacDonald, The Scarlet Ruse
  • Barry N. Malzberg, Beyond Apollo (John W. Campbell Award)
  • Larry McMurtry, All My Friends Are Going to Be Strangers (Houston series)
  • Patrick O’Brian, Post Captain
  • Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die
  • Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
  • Philip Roth, The Breast (Kepesh novel)
  • William Saroyan, Places Where I Did Time
  • Robert Silverberg, Dying Inside (John W. Campbell Award)
  • Norman Spinrad, The Iron Dream
  • Judith Viorst,Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  • Irving Wallace, The Word
  • Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter

1973

  • The Optimist’s Daughter by Eudora Welty, Pulitzer
  • John Bellairs, The House with a Clock in Its Walls
  • James Blish, The Quincunx of Time
  • Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle
  • John Brunner, The Stone That Never Came Down
  • Taylor Caldwell, To Look and Pass
  • Jerome Charyn, The tar baby
  • Agatha Christie, Postern of Fate
  • Arthur C. Clarke, Rendezvous with Rama (Nebula Award)
  • Alan Dean Foster, Bloodhype
  • Theodor Geisel, The Cat in The HatThe Shape of Me and Other Things (children’s)
  • David Gerrold, The Man Who Folded Himself
  • William Goldman, The Princes Bride
  • Graham Greene, The Honorary Consul
  • Frank Herbert, Hellstrom’s Hive
  • Dean Koontz, Demon Seed
  • Madeleine L’Engle, A Wind in the Door
  • Robert Ludlum,The Matlock Paper
  • John D. MacDonald, The Turquoise Lament
  • Alistair MacLean, The Way to Dusty Death
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Child of God
  • Toni Morrison, Sula
  • Larry Niven, Protector (Hugo & Lotus Awards)
  • Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
  • Patrick O’Brian, HMS Surprise
  • Robert B. Parker, The Godwulf Manuscript
  • Harry Petrakis, In the Land of Morning
  • Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
  • Philip Roth, The Great American Novel
  • William Saroyan, Days of Life and Death and Escape to the Moon
  • Rex Stout, Please Pass the Guilt
  • Jacqueline Susann, Once Is Not Enough
  • Jack Vance, The Anome
  • Gore Vidal, Burr
  • Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (Audie Award for Best Male Narrator)
  • Roger Zelanzy, To Die in Italbar

1974

  • No Pulitzer given.
  • Stan and Jan Berenstain,The Berenstain Bears’ New Baby (children’s)
  • Robert Bloch, American Gothic [H.H. Holmes, seriel killer]
  • Taylor Caldwell, Glory and the Lightning
  • Robert Cormier, The Chocolate War
  • Agatha Christie, Poirot’s Early Cases
  • Paula Danziger,The Cat Ate My Gymsuit
  • August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft,The Watchers Out of Time and Others
  • Philip K. Dick, Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said (John W. Campbell Award)
  • Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur(first novel of the Avignon Quintet)
  • Frederick Forsyth, The Dogs of War
  • Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Collected Ghost Stories
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Great Day for Up!There’s a Wocket in My Pocket; Wacky Wednesday (children’s)
  • John Irving, The 158-Pound Marriage
  • Alistair MacLean, Breakheart Pass
  • Nicholas Meyer, The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
  • James Michener, Centennial
  • Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (Nebula, Hugo, and Locus Awards)
  • Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great (Newberry Medal) 
  • Joseph Heller, Something Happened
  • Stephen King, Carrie
  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  • Doris Lessing, Memoirs of a Survivor
  • Robert Ludlum, The Cry of the Halidon
  • Robert B. Parker, God Save the ChildFran Ross, Oreo
  • Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, The Mote in God’s Eye
  • Philip Roth, My Life As a Man
  • Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels
  • William Sleater, House of Stairs
  • Robert Stone, Dog Soldiers (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • Irving Wallace, The Fan Club

1975

  • The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, Pulitzer
  • Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang
  • Natalie Babbit, Tuck Everlasting (children’s)
  • J. G. Ballard, High-Rise
  • Donald Barthelme, The Dead Father
  • Saul Bellow,Humboldt’s Gift
  • John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider
  • Charles Bukowski, Factotum
  • Taylor Caldwell (with Jess Stearn), The Romance of Atlantis
  • Agatha Christie, Curtain
  • James Clavell, Shōgun
  • Roald Dahl, Danny, the Champion of the World (children’s)
  • Samuel R. Delany, Dhalgren (Gaylactic Spectrum Award)
  • E. L. Doctorow, Ragtime
  • William Gaddis, J. R. (National Book Award for Fiction)
  • Theodor Seuss Geisel, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think (children’s)
  • Arthur Hailey, The Moneychangers
  • Thomas Harris, Black Sunday
  • Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed
  • Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust (Booker Prize)
  • Stephen King, Salem’s Lot
  • Alistair MacLean, Circus
  • Maxwell Maltz, The Time is Now
  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch
  • Richard Matheson, Bid Time Return (World Fantasy Award)
  • Larry McMurtry, Terms of Endearment (Houston series)
  • Elizabeth Peters, Crocodile on the Sandbank
  • Joanna Russ, The Female Man (James Tiptree Jr. Award)
  • Judith Rossner, Looking for Mr. Goodbar
  • Paul Scott, The Division of the Spoils(last of Raj Quartet novel cycle)
  • Cordwainer Smith, Norstrilia (Locus Award)
  • Irving Stone, The Greek Treasure: A Biographical Novel of Henry and Sophia Schliemann
  • Manly Wade Wellman, Sherlock Holmes’s War of the Worlds
  • Roger Zelanzy, Sign of the Unicorn

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