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The Top Book List

Award year

1953 National Book Award

Sources: official announcement 1, official announcement 2, official announcement 3

Fiction

Also recognized

  • Jefferson Selleck by Carl JonasFinalist
  • The Gathering Darkness by Thomas GallagherFinalist

Nonfiction

Also recognized

  • A Declaration of Faith by Herbert AgarFinalist
  • Lincoln Finds a General, Vol III by Kenneth P. WilliamsFinalist
  • Midstream: Lincoln the President by J. G. RandallFinalist

Poetry

Also recognized

  • Cape Horn and Other Poems by Ernest KrollFinalist
  • Early and Late Testament by Stanley BurnshawFinalist
  • Poems by Ridgley TorrenceFinalist
  • Ring Song by Naomi ReplanskyFinalist
  • The Dragon and the Unicorn by Kenneth RexrothFinalist
  • The Suburb by the Sea by Robert HillyerFinalist

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