1976 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  Beyond the Bedroom Wall

  Larry Woiwode

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Humboldt's Gift

  Saul Bellow

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Other People's Lives

  Johanna Kaplan

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher

  Hortense Calisher

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Tyrants Destroyed and Other Stories

  Vladimir Nabokov

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Collected Poems

  George Oppen

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  How I Got Ovah

  Carolyn M. Rodgers

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Returning Your Call

  Leonard Nathan

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Life Beside This One

  John N. Morris

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Peacock Poems

  Sherley Anne Williams

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• D.C. Images by P.J. LaskaFinalist
• What Thou Lovest Well, Remains American by Richard HugoFinalist

• National Book Award

  Michelangelo's Last Paintings

  Leo Steinberg

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Modern Painting and the Northern Romantic Tradition

  Robert Rosenblum

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Nijinsky Dancing

  Lincoln Kirstein

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Female Imagination

  Patricia Meyer Spacks

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Holocaust and the Literary Imagination

  Lawrence L. Langer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  El Bronx Remembered

  Nicolasa Mohr

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Ludell

  Brenda Wilkinson

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Of Love and Death and Other Journeys

  Isabelle Holland

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Star in the Pail

  David McCord

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  To the Green Mountains

  Eleanor Cameron

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• As I Was Crossing Boston Common by Norma FaberFinalist