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BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Samuel Johnson
- W. Jackson Bate
James Atlas - Delmore Schwartz
Will D. Campbell - Brother to a Dragonfly
Will Durant & Ariel Durant - A Dual Autobiography
Frank E. Vandiver - Black Jack

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The View From the Oak
- Judith Kohl & Herbert Kohl
Betty Sue Cummings - Hew Against the Grain
Ilse Koehn - Michling, Second Degree
David McCord - One at a Time
William Steig - Caleb & Kate

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
Winners & Losers
- Gloria Emerson
Kai T. Erikson - Everything in Its Path
Michael Harrington - The Vast Majority
Louise Kapp Howe - Pink Collar Workers
Julian Jaynes - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

FICTION
Blood Ties
- Mary Lee Settle
Robert Coover - The Public Burning
Peter De Vries - Madder Music
James Alan McPherson - Elbow Room
John Sayles - Union Dues

HISTORY
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal 1870-1914
- David McCullough
Henry Steele Commager - The Empire of Reason
Robert J. Donovan - Conflict and Crisis
Joseph Kastner - A Species of Eternity
Fritz Stern - Gold and Iron

POETRY
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov
- Howard Nemerov
Marvin Bell - Stars Which See, Stars Which Do Not See
Michael S. Harper - Images of Kin
Barbara Howes - A Private Signal
Charles Simic - Charon's Cosmology

TRANSLATION
Uwe George's In the Deserts of This Earth
- Howard Nemerov
Richard Winston & Clara Winston - Uwe George’s In the Deserts of this Earth
Robert M. Adams - Machiavelli’s The Prince
David Lapeza – Voinovich’s The Ivankiad
Burton Watson – Ryokan’s Zen Monk-Poet of Japan
William Weaver - Elsa Morante’s History: A Novel



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