1966 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  At Play in the Fields of the Lord

  Peter Matthiessen

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Everything that Rise Must Converge

  Flannery O'Connor

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The (Diblos) Notebook

  James Merrill

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Liberation of Lord Byron Jones

  Jesse Hill Ford

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Pericles on 31st Street by Harry PetrakisFinalist

• National Book Award

  About the House

  W. H. Auden

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Questions of Travel

  Elizabeth Bishop

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Selected Poems (1930 - 1965)

  Richard Eberhart

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Lost World

  Randall Jarrell

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Pripet Marshes

  Irving Feldman

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Selected Poems by Louis SimpsonFinalist

• National Book Award

  History of Modern Criticism

  Rene Wellek

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Starting Out in the Thirties

  Alfred Kazin

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• The Myth and the Powerhouse by Philip RahvFinalist
• Trials of the Word by R. W. B. LewisFinalist

• National Book Award

  Charles Francis Adams, Jr.

  Edward Chase Kirkland

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Bill of Rights

  Irving Brant

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Making of the President, 1964

  Theodore H. White

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Peacemakers

  Richard B. Morris

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• The Lost Revolution by Robert ShaplenFinalist
• The Peril and a Hope by Alice Kimball SmithFinalist