1957 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  A Single Pebble

  John Hersey

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Further Fables for Our Time

  James Thurber

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Giovanni's Room

  James Baldwin

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Greenwillow

  B. J. Chute

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Seize the Day

  Saul Bellow

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Last Hurrah

  Edwin O'Connor

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Presence of Grace

  J. F. Powers

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Voice at the Back Door

  Elizabeth Spencer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  These Thousand Hills

  A. B. Guthrie

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Walk on the Wild Side

  Nelson Algren

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Generations of Men by John HuntFinalist

• National Book Award

  Autumn Across America

  Edwin W. Teale

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Triumph

  Frank Freidel

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Guides to Straight Thinking

  Stuart Chase

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  John Quincy Adams and the Union

  Samuel F. Bemis

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Profiles in Courage

  John F. Kennedy

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Richard the Third

  Paul Murray Kendall

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox

  James MacGregor Burns

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Segregation

  Robert Penn Warren

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Crucial Decade

  Eric F. Goldman

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Hallowed Ground

  Bruce Catton

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Nun's Story

  Kathryn Hulme

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Organization Man

  William Whyte, Jr.

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Raven and the Whale

  Perry Miller

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Transformations of Man

  Lewis Mumford

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Old Bullion Benton by William ChambersFinalist
• The Atomic Quest by Arthur H. ComptonFinalist
• The Revolt of the Moderates by Samuel LubellFinalist

• National Book Award

  Green Armor on Green Ground

  Rolfe Humphries

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  In the Rose of Time: Poems, 1939-1956

  Robert Fitzgerald

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Like a Bulwark

  Marianne Moore

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  New and Selected Poems

  Kenneth Fearing

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Form of Loss

  Edgar Bowers

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Things of This World by Richard WilburWinner
• Green with Beasts by W. S. MerwinFinalist
• Greenhouse in the Garden by Charles E. EatonFinalist
• In Defense of the Earth by Kenneth RexrothFinalist
• Poems in POEMS OF TODAY, III by Joseph LanglandFinalist
• Poems of Old and New by John Hall WheelockFinalist
• Section: Rock Drill by Ezra PoundFinalist
• The Unicorn by Anne Morrow LindberghFinalist
• This Tilting Dust by Leah Bodine DrakeFinalist
• Villa Narcisse by Katherine HoskinsFinalist