Best Adult Books

Edgar

Emily Dickinson is Dead

Jane Langton

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Family

David Plante

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

Foul Shot

Doug Hornig

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

From a Limestone Ledge

John Graves

National Book Award Finalist

Nebula

Frontera

Lewis Shiner

Nebula Awards Finalist

Hugo

The Goblin Reservation

Clifford D. Simak

Hugo Awards Finalist

Nebula

Job: A Comedy of Justice

Robert A. Heinlein

Nebula Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Journey to the Frontier

Peter Stansky and William Abrahams

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Keys to Billy Tillio

Eric Blau

Edgar Awards Finalist

Nebula

The Man Who Melted

Jack Dann

Nebula Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

Suzanne K. Langer

National Book Award Finalist

The monsters and the critics, and other essays

J.R.R. Tolkien

Hugo

Moreta: Dragonlady of Pern

Anne McCaffrey

Hugo Awards Finalist

Edgar

Mostly Murder

Sir Sydney Smith

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Murder at the Met

David Black

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

The Nightmare of Reason: A Life of Franz Kafka

Ernst Pawel

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

One Lonely Knight: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer

Max Allan Collins and James L. Traylor

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Papers of Tony Veitch

William McIlvanney

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Patriotic Gore

Edmund Wilson

National Book Award Finalist

Edgar

The Retaliators

Donald Hamilton

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

Ross Macdonald

Matthew J. Bruccoli

Edgar Awards Finalist

Edgar

The Seventh Sacrament

Roland Cutler

Edgar Awards Finalist

National Book Award

Ship of Fools

Katherine Anne Porter

National Book Award Finalist

National Book Award

So Human an Animal

Renè Dubos

National Book Award Finalist