1977 National Book Award

• National Book Award

  A Fine Romance

  Cynthia Propper Seton

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Orsinian Tales

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  The Balloonist

  MacDonald Harris

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

  Raymond Carver

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Democratic Promise

  Lawrence Goodwyn

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Woman's Body, Woman's Right: Birth Control in America

  Linda Gordon

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality by Richard KlugerFinalist

• National Book Award

  Never to Forget: The Jews of the Holocaust

  Milton Meltzer

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Ox Under Pressure

  John Ney

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry

  Mildred D. Taylor

  National Book Award Finalist

• National Book Award

  Tunes for a Small Harmonica

  Barbara Wersba

  National Book Award Finalist

Also recognized

• Aeschylus’s The Orestia by Robert FaglesFinalist
• Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings by Helen WeaverFinalist
• Dante’s The Divine Comedy, Paradiso: Vols, I & II by Charles S. SingletonFinalist
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gregory RabassaFinalist