Non-fiction
- David Attenborough – Life on Earth
- L. Sprague de Camp, editor – The Blade of Conan
- John Fowles – The Tree
- Sandra Gilbert & Susan Gubar – The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
- Henry Kissinger – The White House Years
- Jean-François Lyotard – The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
- Stephen Pile – The Book of Heroic Failures
- Clark Ashton Smith – The Black Book of Clark Ashton Smith
- Margaret Trudeau – Beyond Reason
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