New Prose Fiction
- Richard Adams – Watership Down
- Jorge Amado – Teresa Batista Cansada da Guerra (Tereza Batista: Home from the Wars)
- Martin Amis – The Rachel Papers
- Isaac Asimov – The Gods Themselves
- Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities
- Taylor Caldwell – Captains and the Kings
- John Dickson Carr – The Hungry Goblin: A Victorian Detective Novel
- Angela Carter – The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
- Agatha Christie – Elephants Can Remember
- Brian Cleeve – Tread Softly in this Place
- Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
- Robertson Davies – The Manticore
- R. F. Delderfield – To Serve Them All My Days
- Frederick Forsyth – The Odessa File
- Günter Grass – Aus dem Tagebuch einer Schnecke – (From the Diary of a Snail)
- Graham Greene – The Honorary Consul
- Peter Handke – A Sorrow Beyond Dreams
- James Herriot – All Creatures Great and Small
- Georgette Heyer – Lady of Quality
- George V. Higgins – The Friends of Eddie Coyle
- P. D. James – An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
- Dan Jenkins – Semi-Tough
- Thomas Keneally – The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith
- Oe Kenzaburo – The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away
- Carl Jacobi – Disclosures in Scarlet
- Ira Levin – The Stepford Wives
- Frank Belknap Long – The Rim of the Unknown
- Robert Ludlum – The Osterman Weekend
- John D. MacDonald – The Scarlet Ruse
- David McCullough – The Great Bridge
- Barry N. Malzberg – Beyond Apollo
- Vladimir Nabokov – Transparent Things
- Chaim Potok – My Name is Asher Lev
- Mary Renault – The Persian Boy
- Arkady and Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic
- Paul Theroux – Saint Jack
- Hunter S. Thompson – Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
- Irving Wallace – The Word
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