1975 Book Award Winners

Four days at Gettysburg, told from inside the heads of the men making the decisions, alternating chapter by chapter between the two armies. On the...

Two women, fifty years apart, in the same small Indian town. In 1923 Olivia is the bored and childless wife of a British civil officer in Satipur,...

Saigon, near the end. John Converse, a failed playwright working as a war correspondent, has seen enough of Vietnam to conclude that in a world...

Aaron Benham is a literature professor at a New Hampshire college, on leave to write a novel and not writing it. Across one long weekend in the...

Ragtime opens in New Rochelle, New York, in 1902, in the house of a prosperous family Doctorow never names: Father, who manufactures flags and...

Annie Dillard spent a year watching the creek near her home in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and turned...

Dumas Malone spent decades on Jefferson and His Time, a biography so large it eventually filled six volumes, following Thomas Jefferson from his...

Robert Caro's The Power Broker follows Robert Moses from a comfortable Connecticut childhood and an education at Yale and at Oxford into New York's...

Richard Sewall spent more than twenty years on The Life of Emily Dickinson, and the book's method is its genius: knowing that the poet left almost...

Turtle Island takes its title from a name for the North American continent drawn from Native American tradition, and Gary Snyder uses that renaming...

Anarres is a dry moon settled a hundred and seventy years ago by anarchists who were given a barren world to leave the rich one alone. There is no...

William Mandella is conscripted under an elite draft that takes the most educated young people on Earth and sends them to fight the Taurans, an...

Sybel is sixteen and lives alone on Eld Mountain with the creatures her dead father, the wizard Ogam, and his father before him called there: the...

The plan, as pitched inside an IRA splinter cell, has a mad elegance: rob the Vatican. Peter's Pence, the faithful's annual offering to Rome, plus...

Mayo Cornelius Higgins, known to everyone as M.C., lives with his family on Sarah's Mountain in Appalachia, spending much of his time perched on a...

Gerald McDermott adapts a Pueblo creation story, drawn from Acoma Pueblo tradition, about a boy born when the Lord of the Sun sends a spark of life...

Montale's first collection, published in Italian in 1925, and still the book most readers meet him through. The setting is the Ligurian coast...