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BIOGRAPHY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Robert Kennedy and His Times
- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr
Donald Hall - Remembering Poets
William Manchester - American Caesar: Douglas Macarthur
William M. Murphy - Prodigal Father: The Life of John Butler Yeats
Phyllis Rose - Woman of Letters: A Life of Virginia Woolf

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
The Great Gilly Hopkins
- Katherine Paterson
Lloyd Alexander - The First Two Lives of Lukas-Kasha
Vera Cleaver - Queen of Hearts
Sid Fleischman - Humbug Mountain
Paula Fox - The Little Swinehead and Other Tales

CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT
The Snow Leopard
- Peter Matthiessen
Kenneth E. Boulding - Stable Peace
Ivan Doig - This House of Sky: Landscapes of the Western Wind
Alfred Kazin - New York Jew
Meyer Schapiro - Modern Art

FICTION
Going After Cacciato
- Tim O'Brien
John Cheever - The Stories of John Cheever
John Irving - The World According to Garp
Diane Johnson - Lying Low
David Plante - The Family

HISTORY
Intellectual Life in the Colonial South, 1585-1763
- Richard Beale Davis
Reinhard Bendix - Kings or People
Gordon A. Craig - Germany, 1866-1945
John H. White, Jr. - The American Railroad Passenger Car
Garry Wills - Inventing America

POETRY
Mirabell: Book of Numbers
- James Merrill
Robert Hayden - American Journal
Sandra McPherson - The Year of Our Birth
Philip Schultz - Like Wings
May Swenson - New & Selected Things Taking Place

TRANSLATION
Cesar Vallejo's The Complete Posthumous Poetry
- Clayton Eshleman & Jose Rubin Barcia
Jonathan Chaves - Yuan Hung-Tao’s Pilgrim of the Clouds
June Guicharnaud - Pierre-Jakes Helias’s The Horse of Pride
Richard Howard - Barthes’s A Lover's Discourse
Reynolds Price - A Palpable God: Thirty Stories Translated from The Bible



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