1958 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  A Death in the Family

  James Agee

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Atlas Shrugged

  Ayn Rand

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  By Love Possessed

  James Gould Cozzens

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Love Among the Cannibals

  Wright Morris

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Pnin

  Vladimir Nabokov

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Something About a Soldier

  Mark Harris

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Assistant

  Bernard Malamud

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Birth of a Grandfather

  May Sarton

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Return of Lady Brace

  Nancy Wilson Ross

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Velvet Horn

  Andrew Lytle

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  A Proposal: Key to an Effective Foreign Policy

  Max F. Milliken and W. W. Rostow

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Alexander Hamilton in the American Tradition

  Louis Hacker

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  As France Goes

  David Schoenbrun

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Bridge to the Sun

  Gwen Terasaki

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Memories of a Catholic Girlhood

  Mary McCarthy

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Mr. Baruch

  Margaret Coit

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy

  Henry A. Kissinger

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Poets in a Landscape

  Gilbert Highet

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Hidden Persuaders

  Vance Packard

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Twentieth Maine

  John Pullen

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Justice Holmes: The Shaping Years, 1841-1870 by Mark deWolfe HoweFinalist
• The Citadel by William S. WhiteFinalist
• The Reformation by Will DurantFinalist

• National Book Award

  Hot Afternoons Have Been in Montana

  Eli Siegel

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  In Time Like Air

  May Sarton

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Opus Posthumous

  Wallace Stevens

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Poems

  Richmond Lattimore

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Swimmer in the Air

  Howard Moss

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Green Wall

  James Wright

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Selected Poems of H. D.

  H. D. (Hilda Doolittle)

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Time without Number

  Daniel Berrigan

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Great Praises by Richard EberhartFinalist
• Letter from a Distant Land by Phillip BoothFinalist
• Poems: 1947-1957 by William Jay SmithFinalist
• The Arctic Tern by Edwin G. BurrowsFinalist