General Nonfiction
| 1980 hard | Tom Wolfe | The Right Stuff |
| 1980 pb | Peter Matthiessen | The Snow Leopard |
| 1981 hard | Maxine Hong Kingston | China Men |
| 1981 pb | Jane Kramer | The Last Cowboy: Europeans and The Politics of Memory |
| 1982 hard | Tracy Kidder | The Soul of a New Machine |
| 1982 pb | Victor S. Navasky | Naming Names (about the Hollywood blacklist) |
| 1983 hard | Fox Butterfield | China: Alive in the Bitter Sea |
| 1983 pb | James Fallows | National Defense |
Read more about this topic: List Of Winners Of The National Book Award, Nonfiction Subcategories 1964 To 1983
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