"Offshore", Penelope Fitzgerald
"Confederates", Thomas Keneally
"A Bend in the River", V.S. Naipaul
"Joseph", Julian Rathbone
"Praxis", Fay Weldon
"The Sea, The Sea", Iris Murdoch
"Jake's Thing", Kingsley Amis
"Rumours of Rain", Andre Brink
"The Bookshop", Penelope Fitzgerald
"God on the Rocks", Jane Gardam
"A Five Year Sentence", Bernice Rubens
"Staying On", Paul Scott
"Peter Smart's Confessions", Paul Bailey
"Great Granny Webster", Caroline Blackwood
"Shadows on Our Skin", Jennifer Johnston
"The Road to Lichfield", Penelope Lively
"Quartet in Autumn", Barbara Pym
"Saville", David Storey
"An Instant in the Wind", Andre Brink
"Rising", R.C. Hutchinson
"The Doctor's Wife", Brian Moore
"King Fisher Lives", Julian Rathbone
"The Children of Dynmouth", William Trevor
"Heat and Dust", Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
"Gossip from the Forest", Thomas Keneally
"The Conservationist", Nadine Gordimer (co-winner)
"Holiday", Stanley Middleton (co-winner)
"Ending Up", Kingsley Amis
"The Bottle Factory Outing", Beryl Bainbridge
"In Their Wisdom", C.P. Snow
"The Siege of Krishnapur", J.G. Farrell
"The Dressmaker", Beryl Bainbridge
"The Green Equinox", Elizabeth Mavor
"The Black Prince", Iris Murdoch
"G", John Berger
"Bird of Night", Susan Hill
"The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith", Thomas Keneally
"Pasmore", David Storey
"In a Free State", V.S. Naipaul
"The Big Chapel", Thomas Kilroy
"Briefing for a Descent into Hell", Doris Lessing
"St. Urbain's Horseman", Mordecai Richler
"Goshawk Squadron", Derek Robinson
"Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont", Elizabeth Taylor
"The Elected Member", Bernice Rubens
"John Brown's Body", A.L. Barker
"Eva Trout", Elizabeth Bowen
"Bruno's Dream", Iris Murdoch
"Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel", William Trevor
"The Conjunction", T. W. Wheeler