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The Top Book List

Award year

1955 National Book Award

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

Fiction

  • Cover of A Fable by William FaulknerWinner

    A Fable

    William Faulkner

    National Book Award Winner

Also recognized

  • The Courts of Memory by Frank RooneyFinalist

Nonfiction

Also recognized

  • Scenes and Portraits by Van Wyck BrooksFinalist
  • The Manner is Ordinary by John La FargeFinalist
  • The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill by Hermann HagedornFinalist

Poetry

Also recognized

  • A Character Invented by LeRoy SmithFinalist
  • Another Animal (published as part of "Poets of Today") by May SwensonFinalist
  • Collected Poems, 1923-1953 by Louise BoganFinalist
  • Hungerfield and Other Poems by Robinson JeffersFinalist
  • Poems: A Selection by Léonie AdamsFinalist
  • Songs for Eve by Archibald MacLeishFinalist
  • The Desert Music and Other Poems by William Carlos WilliamsFinalist
  • The Verse Diary of a Psychiatrist by Merrill MooreFinalist

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