- The confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron
- Joseph in Egypt, Thomas Mann ; translated from the German for the first time by H.T. Lowe-Porter
- The dreamer, by Pam Muñoz Ryan ; drawings by Peter Sís
- Memoirs of Hadrian, by Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author
- Roots, Alex Haley
- The ides of March, Thornton Wilder
- Schindler's list, Thomas Keneally
- Claudius the god and his wife Messalina, by Robert Graves
- The last temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis ; translated from the Greek by P.A. Bien
- Alias Grace, Margaret Atwood
- City of discontent;, an interpretive biography of Vachel Lindsay, being also the story of Springfield, Illinois, USA, and of the love of the poet for that city, that State and that Nation
- The ancient child, a novel, N. Scott Momaday
- The old gringo, by Carlos Fuentes ; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden and the author
- The revenant, a novel of revenge, Michael Punke
- Imperial woman, a novel by Pearl S. Buck