1975 National Book Award

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  Enormous Changes at the Last Minute

  Grace Paley

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Guilty Pleasures

  Donald Barthelme

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Look at the Harlequins!

  Vladimir Nabokov

  National Book Award Finalist

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  My Life as a Man

  Philip Roth

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Something Happened

  Joseph Heller

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Sula

  Toni Morrison

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Death of the Detective

  Mark Smith

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Odd Woman

  Gail Godwin

  National Book Award Finalist

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  After Our War

  John Balaban

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Granite Lady

  Susan Fromberg Schaeffer

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Jan 31

  Albert Goldbarth

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Sleeping in the Woods

  David Wagoner

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Mother's Breast and the Father's House

  Reed Whittemore

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Shade-Seller

  Josephine Jacobsen

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Threats Instead of Trees

  Michael Ryan

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Two-Part Inventions by Richard HowardFinalist

• National Book Award

  'Your Isadora'

  Francis Steegmuller

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journey

  Michael Collins

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Edward Weston: His Life

  Ben Maddow

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Friar Thomas D'Aquino

  James A. Weisheipl

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Gesualdo: The Man and His Music

  Glenn Watkins

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Patrick Henry

  Richard Beeman

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Uneasy Chair: A Biography of Bernard DeVoto

  Wallace Stegner

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Bix: Man and Legend by Richard M. Sudhalter and Philip R. EvansFinalist
• Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company by James R. MellowFinalist

• National Book Award

  Doctor in the Zoo

  Bruce Buchenholz

  National Book Award Finalist

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  I Tell a Lie Every So Often

  Bruce Clements

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Joi Bangla: The Children of Bangladesh

  Jason Laure and Ettagale Laure

  National Book Award Finalist

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  My Brother Sam is Dead

  Christopher Collier and James Lincoln Collier

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Remember the Days: A Short History of the Jewish American

  Milton Meltzer

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Devil's Storybook

  Natalie Babbitt

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Edge of Next Year

  Mary Stoltz

  National Book Award Finalist

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  The Girl Who Cried Flowers and Other Tales

  Jane Yolen

  National Book Award Finalist

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  Wings

  Adrienne Richard

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  World of Our Fathers: The Jews of Eastern Europe

  Milton Meltzer

  National Book Award Finalist