| A | B |
| Alice Adams | Superior Women |
| George Abbot, Jerome Weidman, Sheldon and Jerry Bock | Fiorillo |
| Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf |
| Edward Albee | Tiny Alice |
| Edward Albee | A Delicate Balance |
| Edward Albee | Three Tall Women |
| Edward Albee | Seascape |
| A.R. Ammons | Expression of Sea Level |
| A.R. Ammons | Carsons Inlet |
| A.R. Ammons | Tape for the Turn of the Century |
| A.R. Ammons | Collected Poems |
| A.R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
| A.R. Ammons | Lake Effect Country |
| Rudolfo Anaya | Bless Me, Ultima |
| May Angelou | I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings |
| John Ashbery | The Tennis Court Oath |
| John Ashbery | Rivers and Mountains |
| John Ashbery | Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror |
| John Ashbery | The Double Dream of Spring |
| John Ashbery | Hotel Lautreamount |
| James Baldwin | If Beale Street Could Talk |
| Russell Banks | Continental Drift |
| Russell Banks | Gourd Seed |
| Russell Banks | Affliction |
| Coleman Barks | Gourd Seed |
| John Barth | Giles Goat-Boy |
| John Barth | Sabbatical |
| Donald Barthelme | City Life |
| Donald Barthelme | Sixty Stories |
| Donald Barthelme | Paradise |
| Peter Beagle | The Last Unicorn |
| Ann Beattie | Chilly Scenes of Winter |
| Saul Bellow | Herzog |
| Saul Bellow | Mr. Sammler's Priest |
| Saul Bellow | Humbolt's Gift |
| Saul Bellow | The Dean's December |
| Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Nicholas Hamlisch, & Edward Kleban | A Chorus Line |
| John Berryman | 77 Dream Songs |
| John Berryman | Delusions |
| Doris Betts | Heading West |
| Robert Bly | Silence in the Snowy Fields |
| Robert Bly | The Light Around the Body |
| G. Brooks | In the Mecca |
| William Burroughs | The Place of Dead Roads |
| Robert Olen Butler | A Good Scent From a Strange Mountain |
| Fred Chappell | Brighten the Corner Where You ARe |
| Truman Capote | In Cold Blood |
| Raymond Carver | What We Talk About When We Talk About Love |
| John Cheever | Bullet Park |
| John Cheever | The Story of John Cheever |
| John Cheever | The Falconer |
| John Cheever | The Wapshot Chronicle |
| Amy Clampitt | The Kingfisher |
| Amy Clampitt | Westward |
| Michael Cristofer | The Shadow Box |
| Donald L. Cobum | The Gin Game |
| Evan Connell | Mr. Bridge |
| Robert Coover | The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. |
| Robert Creeley | Selected Poems |
| Robert Creeley | Memory Gardens |
| Harry Crews | The Knockout Artist |
| Victor H. Cruz | Red Beans |
| E. E. Cummings | 73 Poems |
| Don DeLillo | White Noise |
| James Dickey | Buckdancer's Choice |
| Joan Didion | A Book of Common Prayer |
| E.L. Doctorow | The Book of Daniel |
| E.L. Doctorow | Ragtime |
| Rita Dove | Thomas and Beulah |
| Alan Dugan | Poems |
| Mona Van Duyn | Near Changes |
| Richard Eberhart | Selected Poems |
| Louise Erdich | The Beet Queen |
| William Faulkner | The Reivers |
| Horton Foote | A Young Man From Atlanta |
| R. Ford | Independence Day |
| Robert Frost | In the Clearing |
| Charles Fuller | A Soldier's Pay |
| J.R. Gaddis | A Frolic of His Own |
| J.R. Gaddis | JR |
| Dame Helen Gardner | The Sunlight Dialogues |
| Dame Helen Gardner | October Light |
| George Palmer Garrett | The Sucession |
| Kay Gibbons | A Cure for Dreams |
| Frank D. Gilroy | The Subject Was Roses |
| Allen Ginsberg | Reality Sandwiches |
| Allen Ginsberg | The Fall of America |
| Louise Gluck | The Triumph of Achilles |
| Louise Gluck | The Wild Iris |
| Albert Goldbarth | Original Light |
| Charles Gordone | Now Place to Be Somebody |
| Shirley Ann Grau | The Keepers of the House |
| Judith Guest | Ordinary People |
| Allan Gurganus | The Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All |
| Arthur Haley | Roots |
| Barry Hannah | Hey Jack! |
| Barry Hannah | Boomerang |
| Michael S. Harper | Images of Kin |
| Michael S. Harper | Healing Song for the Inner Ear |
| John Hawkes | The Blood Oranges |
| Anthony Hecht | The Hard Hours |
| Larry Heinemann | Close Quarters |
| Larry Heinemann | Paco's Story |
| Joseph Heller | Catch 22 |
| Joseph Heller | Something Happened |
| Joseph Heller | Good As Gold |
| Joseph Heller | God Knows |
| Lillian Hellman | Toys in the Attic |
| Ernest Hemingway | Islands in the Stream |
| Ernest Hemingway | The Garden of Eden |
| Ernest Hemingway | A Moveable Feast |
| Ernest Hemingway | Travels With Charlie |
| Beth Henley | Crimes of the Heart |
| Oscar Hijuelos | The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love |
| Ruth B. Hill | Hanta Yo |
| Richard Joseph Howard | Untitled Subjects |
| Richard Joseph Howard | Misgivings |
| Richard Joseph Howard | Lining Up |
| Richard Hollander | Types of Shapes |
| John Irving | The World According to Garp |
| Laura Jackson | The Telling |
| Laura Jackson | First Awakenings |
| Randall Jarrell | The Woman at the Washington Zoo |
| Robinson Jeffers | The Beginning of the End |
| Erica Jong | Fear of FLying |
| Donald Justice | Selected Poems |
| William Kennedy | Cross Ties |
| William Kennedy | Iron Weed |
| Maxine Kingston | Notes of a Woman Warrior |
| Galaway Kinnell | The Avenue Bearing the Initial of Christ Into the New World |
| Galaway Kinnell | Selected Poems |
| Carolyn Kizer | A Happy Childhood |
| Carolyn Kizer | The Nearness of You |
| Carolyn Kizer | Yin |
| Bill Knott | Becos |
| Yusef Komunyakaa | Neon Vernacular |
| Maxine Winokur Kumin | Up Country |
| Rony Kusher | Angels in America: Millenium Approaches |
| Jonathan Larson | Rent |
| Harper Lee | To Kill a Mockingbird |
| Philip Levine | The Simple Truth |
| Robert Lowell | Notebook 1967-1968 |
| Robert Lowell | The Dolphin |
| Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying |
| Alllison Lune | Foreign Affairs |