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The Top Book List

Award year

1961 National Book Award

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

Fiction

Also recognized

  • Generation Without a Farewell by Kay BoyleFinalist
  • The Christening Party by Francis SteegmullerFinalist
  • The House of Five Talents by Louis AuchinclossFinalist

Nonfiction

Also recognized

  • Chancellor Robert R. Livingston by George DangerfieldFinalist
  • Felix Frankfurter Reminisces by Harlan B. PhillipsFinalist
  • Name and Address by T. S. MathewsFinalist

Poetry

Also recognized

  • The Woman at the Washington Zoo by Randall JarrellWinner
  • Homage to Clio by W. H. AudenFinalist
  • Knowledge of the Evening by John Frederick NimsFinalist
  • New and Selected Poems by Howard NemerovFinalist
  • Outlanders by Theodore WeissFinalist
  • The Exclusions of Rhyme by J. V. CunninghamFinalist
  • The Summer Anniversaries by Donald JusticeFinalist
  • Wilderness of Ladies by Eleanor Ross TaylorFinalist

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