1976

• The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
  1976 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• The Borderland of Sol by Larry Niven
  1976 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Home is the Hangman by Roger Zelazny
  1976 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• Catch That Zeppelin! by Fritz Leiber
  1976 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• Why Survive? Being Old In America by Robert N. Butler
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · General Nonfiction
• Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry
• Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction
• Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• Air Music by Ned Rorem
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · Music
• A Chorus Line by Michael Bennett, James Kirkwood, Jr., Marvin Hamlisch, Nicholas Dante and Edward Kleban
  1976 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama
• The Bicentennial Man by Isaac Asimov
  1976 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• Man Plus by Frederik Pohl
  1976 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• Houston, Houston, Do You Read? by James Tiptree Jr.
  1976 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella
• A Crowd of Shadows by Charles L. Grant
  1976 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story