1973 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  Enemies, A Love Story

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Geronimo Rex

  Barry Hannah

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Hermaphrodeity

  Alan Friedman

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Mumbo Jumbo

  Ishmael Reed

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Confessions of a Child of the Century

  Thomas Rogers

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Friends of Eddie Coyle

  George V. Higgins

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Optimist's Daughter

  Eudora Welty

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Prince

  R.M. Koster

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Transparent Things

  Vladimir Nabokov

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  A Book of Change

  Frederick Morgan

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Adventures of the Letter I

  Louis Simpson

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Braving the Elements

  James Merrill

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Conjure

  Ishmael Reed

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Delusions, Etc.

  John Berryman

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Epistle to a Godson and Other Poems

  W. H. Auden

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Fields of Grace

  Richard Eberhart

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  FootPrints

  Denise Levertov

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Once for the Last Bandit

  Samuel Hazo

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Human Season

  Archibald MacLeish

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Town and Country Matters by John HollanderFinalist

• National Book Award

  Dominic

  William Steig

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Julie of the Wolves

  Jean Craighead George

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The House of Wings

  Betsy Byars

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Impossible People

  Georgess McHargue

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Witches of Worm

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Trolls

  Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Children of Vietnam by Betty Jean LiftonFinalist