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AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Mornings on Horseback
- David McCullough
Gay Wilson Allen – Waldo Emerson
Dumas Malone – Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello
William S. McFeely – Grant
Milton Rugoff – The Beechers

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Walter Lippmann and the American Century
- Ronald Steel
Joseph P. Lash – Helen and Teacher: The Story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Macy
Robert K. Massie – Peter the Great
Ted Morgan – Maugham
Ernest Samuels – Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Connoisseur

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Westmark
- Lloyd Alexander
Beverly Cleary - Ramona Quimby, Age 8
Deborah Hautzig - Second Star to the Right
Mildred D. Taylor - Let the Circle Be Unbroken
Cynthia Voigt – Homecoming

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Words by Heart
- Ouida Sebestyen
Lloyd Alexander - The Wizard in the Tree
Katherine Paterson - Jacob Have I Loved
Katherine Paterson - The Master Puppeteer

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
A Penguin Year
- Susan Bonners
Jean Fritz – Traitor: The Case of Benedict Arnold
James Howe; Mal Warshaw, photos – The Hospital Book
Patricia Lauber; James Wexler, photos – Seeds: Pop, Stick and Glide
Melvin B. Zisfein; Robert Andrew Parker, Ill. – Flight: A Panorama of Aviation

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
Outside Over There
- Maurice Sendak
Olaf Baker; Stephen Gammell, ill. - Where the Buffaloes Begin
Arnold Lobel; Anita Lobel, ill. - On Market Street
Chris Van Allsburg - Jumanji
Nancy Willard; Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
Noah's Ark
- Peter Spier
Muriel Feelings; Tom Feelings, ill. - Jambo Means Hello: Swahili Alphabet Book
Jane Langton - The Fledgling
Alice and Martin Provensen, ill. - A Peaceable Kingdom: The Shaker Abcedarius
William Sleator; Blair Lent, ill. - The Angry Moon
Rosemary Wells - Stanley and Rhoda

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Rabbit is Rich
- John Updike
Mark Helprin - Ellis Island and Other Stories
John Irving - The Hotel New Hampshire
Robert Stone - A Flag for Sunrise
William Wharton – Dad

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
So Long, See You Tomorrow
- William Maxwell
E.L. Doctorow - Loon Lake
Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
Walker Percy - The Second Coming
Anne Tyler - Morgan's Passing

FIRST NOVEL
Dale Loves Sophie to Death
- Robb Forman Dew
Celia Gittelson - Saving Grace
Bette Bao Lord - Spring Moon
Leonard Michaels - The Men's Club
Ted Mooney - Easy Travel to Other Planets

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Soul of a New Machine
- Tracy Kidder
Guy Davenport – The Geography of the Imagination
James Fallows – National Defense
Janet Malcolm – Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Andrea Lee – Russian Journal

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
Naming Names
- Victor S. Navasky
Norman Cousins – Anatomy of an Illness As Perceived by the Patient
Edward Hoagland – African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
Landon Y. Jones, Jr. – Great Expectations: America and the Baby Boom Generation
Barbara Novak – Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
People of the Sacred Mountain: A History of the Northern Cheyenne Chiefs and Warrior Societies, 1830-1879
- Father Peter John Powell
Ray Huang – 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
Donald Neff – Warriors at Suez: Eisenhower Takes America into the Middle East
Russell F. Weigley – Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945
C. Vann Woodward, ed. – Mary Chestnut's Civil War

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
The Generation of 1914
- Robert Wohl
Malcolm Cowley – The Dream of the Golden Mountains
Robert Dallek – Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945
Carl N. Degler – At Odds: Women and the Family in America from the Revolution to the Present
Charles Rembar – The Law of the Land: The Evolution of Our Legal System

POETRY
Life Supports: New and Collected Poems
- William Bronk
A.R. Ammons – A Coast of Trees
John Ashbery – Shadow Train
Douglas Crase – The Revisionist
Daniel Hoffman – Brotherly Love
SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
- Donald C. Johanson & Maitland A. Edey
Gene Bylinsky – Life in Darwin's Universe: Evolution and the Cosmos
Eric Chaisson – Cosmic Dawn: The Origins of Matter and Life
Steven J. Gould – The Mismeasure of Man
Steven M. Stanley – The New Evolutionary Timetable: Fossils, Genes and the Origin of Species

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
Taking the Quantum Leap: The New Physics for Nonscientists
- Fred Alan Wolf
Freeman Dyson – Disturbing the Universe
Howard E. Gruber – Darwin on Man: A Psychological study of Scientific Creativity
Bernd Heinrich – Bumblebee Economics
Guy Murchie – The Seven Mysteries of Life: An Exploration in Science and Philosophy

TRANSLATION
Higuchi Ichiyo's In the Shade of Spring Leaves
- Robert Lyons Danly
The Ten Thousand Leaves: A Translation of The Man'Yoshu, Japan's Premier Anthology of Classical Poetry
- Ian Hideo Levy
W.S. DiPiero – Leopardi’s Pensieri
Louis Iribarne – Milosz’s The Issa Valley
Miller Williams – Sonnets of Giuseppe Belli


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