New Books
- Alan Dean Foster – Splinter of the Mind's Eye
- John L. Parker Jr. – Once a Runner
- Kingsley Amis – Jake's Thing
- Richard Bach – Illusions
- Beryl Bainbridge – Young Adolf
- Thomas Berger – Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel
- William Peter Blatty – The Ninth Configuration
- Judy Blume – Wifey
- Charles Bukowski – Women
- Anthony Burgess – 1985
- Taylor Caldwell – Bright Flows the River
- Chantal Chawaf – Rougeâtre
- John Cheever – The Stories of John Cheever
- C.J. Cherryh – Well of Shiuan
- Brian Cleeve – Judith
- Mary Elizabeth Counselman – Half in Shadow
- L. Sprague de Camp
- The Best of L. Sprague de Camp
- The Great Fetish
- L. Sprague de Camp, Lin Carter and Björn Nyberg – Conan the Swordsman
- Samuel R. Delany – Empire: A Visual Novel
- Don DeLillo – Running Dog
- Nelson DeMille – By the Rivers of Babylon
- Phyllis Eisenstein – Born to Exile
- J. G. Farrell – The Singapore Grip
- Howard Fast – Second Generation
- Ken Follett – Eye of the Needle
- Ernest J. Gaines – In My Father's House
- Günter Grass – Die Flunder – (The Flounder)
- Graham Greene – The Human Factor
- Donald Hamilton – The Silencers
- Harry Harrison – The Stainless Steel Rat Wants You
- James Herbert – The Spear
- William Hjortsberg – Falling Angel
- John Irving – The World According to Garp
- Marshall Jevons – Murder at the Margin
- James Jones – Whistle
- Ismail Kadare – Ura Me Tri Harqe (The Three-Arched Bridge)
- M. M. Kaye – The Far Pavilions
- Stephen King
- The Stand
- Night Shift (collection of short stories, including Children of the Corn)
- Christopher Koch – The Year of Living Dangerously
- Larry Kramer – Faggots
- Judith Krantz – Scruples
- Ursula K. Le Guin – The Eye of the Heron
- Madeleine L'Engle – A Swiftly Tilting Planet
- Robert Ludlum – The Holcroft Covenant
- John D. MacDonald – The Empty Copper Sea
- David Malouf – An Imaginary Life
- Richard Matheson – What Dreams May Come
- Ian McEwan – The Cement Garden
- James A. Michener – Chesapeake
- Alice Munro – Beggar Maid
- Larry Niven – The Magic Goes Away
- Tim O'Brien – Going After Cacciato
- Andrew J. Offutt – Conan and the Sorcerer
- Robert B. Parker – The Judas Goat
- Elizabeth Peters – Street of the Five Moons
- William Luther Pierce – The Turner Diaries
- Belva Plain – Evergreen
- Mario Puzo – Fools Die
- Mary Renault – The Praise Singer
- Ruth Rendell – A Sleeping Life
- Hubert Selby Jr. – Requiem for a Dream
- Whitley Strieber – The Wolfen
- Thomas Sullivan – Diapason
- Rosemary Sutcliff – Song for a Dark Queen
- John Updike – The Coup
- Philip Van Rensselaer – That Vanderbilt Woman
- Gore Vidal – Kalki
- William Wharton – Birdy
- Herman Wouk – War and Remembrance
- Richard Yates -A Good School
- Frank Yerby – Hail the Conquering Hero
- Roger Zelazny – The Courts of Chaos
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