1968 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  A Garden of Earthly Delights

  Joyce Carol Oates

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Confessions of Nat Turner

  William Styron

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Chosen

  Chaim Potok

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Why Are We in Vietnam?

  Norman Mailer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  A-12

  Louis Zukofsky

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Complete Poems

  Kenneth Rexroth

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Biology of Ultimate Concern

  Theodosius Dobzhansky

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Lice

  W. S. Merwin

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Sorrow Dance

  Denise Levertov

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Chukovskaya’s The Deserted House

  Arlene B. Werth

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Odyssey of Homer

  Richmond Lattimore

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Soren Kierkegaard's Journals and Papers by Howard HongWinner
• Aristophanes’ The Congresswomen by Douglass ParkerFinalist
• Freyre’s Mother and Son by Barbara ShelbyFinalist
• Isaac Singer’s The Manor by Elaine GottliebFinalist
• Prado’s Country Judge by L. B. SimpsonFinalist

• National Book Award

  Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling

  Suzanne K. Langer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Myth of the Machine

  Lewis Mumford

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The New Industrial State

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  National Book Award Finalist