1979

• Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
  1979 · Booker Prize · Fiction
• The Persistence of Vision by John Varley
  1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• Hunter’s Moon by Poul Anderson
  1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre
  1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• Cassandra by C. J. Cherryh
  1979 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · Fiction
• The Dred Scott Case by Don E. Fehrenbacher
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · History
• On Human Nature by Edward O. Wilson
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · General Nonfiction
• Now and Then by Robert Penn Warren
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · Poetry
• Days of Sorrow and Pain: Leo Baeck and the Berlin Jews by Leonard Baker
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · Biography
• Buried Child by Sam Shepard
  1979 · Pulitzer Prizes · Drama
• giANTS by Edward Bryant
  1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story
• The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
  1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• Sandkings by George R.R. Martin
  1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear
  1979 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella
• Hasen by Reuben Bercovitch
  1979 · PEN/Hemingway Award · Debut Novel