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ARTS AND LETTERS
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, The Novel as History
- Norman Mailer
Hannah Arendt - Men in Dark Times
Peter Gay - Weimar Culture
Gordon S. Haight - George Eliot
Gertrude Himmelfarb - Victorian Minds

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
Journey from Peppermint Street
- Meindert DeJong
Lloyd Alexander - The High King
Patricia Clapp - Constance
Esther Hautzig - The Endless Steppe
Milton Meltzer - Langston Hughes

FICTION
Steps
- Jerzy Kosinski
John Barth - Lost in the Funhouse
Frederick Exley - A Fan's Notes
Joyce Carol Oates - Expensive People
Thomas Rogers - The Pursuit of Happiness

HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY
White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
- Winthrop D. Jordan
Noel Pharr Davis - Lawrence and Oppenheimer
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr. -The Indian Heritage of America
Norman Mailer - Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republic and Democratic Conventions of 1968
David M. Potter - The South and the Sectional Conflict

POETRY
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest
- John Berryman
Gwendolyn Brooks - In the Mecca
Galway Kinnell - Body Rags
John Thompson - The Talking Girl
Keith Waldrop - A Windmill Near Calvary

THE SCIENCES
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
- Robert J. Lifton
Rene Dubos - So Human an Animal
Frank E. Manuel - A Portrait of Isaac Newton
Karl Menninger, M.D. - The Crime of Punishment
James D. Watson - The Double Helix

TRANSLATION
Calvino's Cosmicomics
- William Weaver
Joseph Hitrec – Andric’s The Pasha's Concubine and Other Tales
Rolfe Humphries – Lucretius’s The Way Things Are
Ellen Conroy Kennedy – Camus’s Lyrical and Critical Essays
Burton Watson – The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu


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