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The Top Book List

Award year

1959 National Book Award

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

Fiction

Also recognized

  • The Lost Country by J. R. SalamancaFinalist

Nonfiction

Also recognized

  • A Case History of Hope by Flora LewisFinalist
  • Marlborough's Duchess by Louis KronenbergerFinalist
  • Private by Lester AtwellFinalist

Poetry

  • Cover of Collected Poems by Theodore RoethkeNational Book Award

    Collected Poems

    Theodore Roethke

    National Book Award Finalist

  • Cover of I Marry You by John CiardiNational Book Award

    I Marry You

    John Ciardi

    National Book Award Finalist

  • Cover of J. B. by Archibald MacLeishNational Book Award

    J. B.

    Archibald MacLeish

    National Book Award Finalist

  • Cover of poems by e. e. cummingsNational Book Award

    poems

    e. e. cummings

    National Book Award Finalist

  • Cover of Poems of a Jew by Karl ShapiroNational Book Award

    Poems of a Jew

    Karl Shapiro

    National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

  • A Cage of Spines by May SwensonFinalist
  • Mirrors and Windows by Howard NemerovFinalist
  • Paterson, Book IV by William Carlos WilliamsFinalist

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