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AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (HARDCOVER)
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
- Judith Thurman
Russell Baker – Growing Up
Robert A. Caro – The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert J. Donovan – Tumultuous Years: The Presidency of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1953
Lewis Mumford – Sketches from Life: The Early Years

AUTOBIOGRAPHY/BIOGRAPHY (PAPERBACK)
Nathaniel Hawthorne in His Times
- James R. Mellow
Dumas Malone – Jefferson in His Time, Vol. VI: The Sage of Monticello
Paul Mariani – William Carlos Williams: A New World Naked
William S. McFeely – Grant
Jean Strouse – Alice James: A Biography

CHILDREN'S FICTION (HARDCOVER)
Homesick: My Own Story
- Jean Fritz
Lloyd Alexander – The Kestrel
Edward Fenton – The Refugee Summer
Virginia Hamilton – Sweet Whispers, Brother Rush
Zibby Oneal – A Formal Feeling

CHILDREN'S FICTION (PAPERBACK)
A Place Apart
- Paula Fox
Marked by Fire
- Joyce Carol Thomas
Judy Blume – Tiger Eyes
Sue Ellen Bridgers – Notes for another Life
Lois Lowry – Anastasia Again!

CHILDREN'S BOOKS, NON-FICTION
Chimney Sweeps
- James Cross Giblin
Linda Grant De Pauw – Seafaring Women
Patricia Lauber – Journey to the Planets
John Nance – Lobo of the Tasaday
Judith St. George – The Brooklyn Bridge

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (HARDCOVER)
Miss Rumphius
- Barbara Cooney
Doctor De Soto
- William Steig
Marcia Brown – Shadow
Karla Kuskin; Marc Simont, ill. – The Philharmonic Gets Dressed
Cynthia Rylant; Diane Goode, ill. – When I Was Young in the Mountains

CHILDREN'S PICTURE BOOKS (PAPERBACK)
A House is a House for Me
- Mary Ann Hoberman; Betty Fraser, ill
Steven Kellogg – Pinkerton, Behave!
Peter Koeppen – Robert Frost's A Swinger of Birches
Edward Marshall – Space Case
Ellen Shire – The Bungling Ballerinas

FICTION (HARDCOVER)
The Color Purple
- Alice Walker
Gail Godwin – A Mother and Two Daughters
Bobbie Ann Mason – Shiloh and Other Stories
Paul Theroux – The Mosquito Coast
Anne Tyler – Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

FICTION (PAPERBACK)
Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- Eudora Welty
David Bradley – The Chaneysville Incident
Mary Gordon – The Company of Women
Marilynne Robinson – Housekeeping
Robert Stone – A Flag for Sunrise

FIRST NOVEL
The Women of Brewster Place
- Gloria Naylor
Read Her Acceptance Speech
Gail Albert - Matters of Chance
John M. Del Vecchio - The 13th Valley
Susanna Moore - My Old Sweetheart
David Small - Almost Famous

GENERAL NONFICTION (HARDCOVER)
China: Alive in the Bitter Sea
- Fox Butterfield
George F. Kennan – The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age
David McClintock – Indecent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street
Jonathan Schell – The Fate of the Earth
Susan Sheehan – Is There No Place on Earth for Me?

GENERAL NONFICTION (PAPERBACK)
National Defense
- James Fallows
Edwin R. Bayley – Joe McCarthy and the Press
Paul Fussell – Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
Al Santoli – Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War
Joanna L. Stratton – Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier

HISTORY (HARDCOVER)
Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
- Alan Brinkley
Gordon A. Craig – The Germans
Robert Darnton – The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
John Putnam Demos – Entertaining Satan
William H. McNeill – The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000
Bertram Wyatt-Brown – Southern Honor

HISTORY (PAPERBACK)
Utopian Thought in the Western World
- Frank E. Manuel & Fritzie P. Manuel
George M. Fredrickson – White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History
Ray Huang – 1587, a Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline
John Noble Wilford – The Mapmakers

ORIGINAL PAPERBACK
The Red Magician
- Lisa Goldstein
David P. Barash, PhD., and Judith Eve Lipton, M.D. – Stop Nuclear War: A Handbook
Mark Green – Winning Back America
Ground Zero War Foundation – Nuclear War
Marc Scott Zicree – The Twilight Zone Companion

POETRY
Selected Poems
- Galway Kinnell
Country Music: Selected Early Poems
- Charles Wright
Jack Gilbert – Monolithos
Linda Pastan – PM/AM
Mona Van Duyn – Letters from a Father and Other Poems

SCIENCE (HARDCOVER)
"Subtle is the Lord...": The Science and Life of Albert Einstein
- Abraham Pais
Philip J. Hilts – Scientific Temperaments: Three Lives in Contemporary Science
Melvin Konner – The Tangled Wing: Biological Constraints on the Human Spirit
Ernst Mayr – The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution and Inheritance
Heinz R. Pagels – Cosmic Code: Physics as the Language of Nature

SCIENCE (PAPERBACK)
The Mathematical Experience
- Philip J. Davis & Reuben Hersh
Morris Kline – Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
Cynthia Moss – Portrait in the Wild: Animal Behavior in the Western World
Berton Rouechè – The Medical Detectives
G. Ledyard Stebbins – Darwin to DNA: Molecules to Humanity

TRANSLATION
Charles Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal
- Richard Howard
Marion Faber – Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s Mozart
Allen Mandelbaum – Dante’s Purgatorio
Philip B. Miller – An Abyss Deep Enough: Letters of Heinrich von Kleist
Richard Wilbur – Racine’s Andromache


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