1980

• The Way of Cross and Dragon by George R. R. Martin
  1980 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• The Fountains of Paradise by Arthur C. Clarke
  1980 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• Sandkings by George R. R. Martin
  1980 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Enemy Mine by Barry B. Longyear
  1980 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · Biography
• The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · Fiction
• Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · Drama
• Selected Poems by Donald Justice
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · Poetry
• In Memory of a Summer Day by David Del Tredici
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · Music
• Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · General Nonfiction
• Been in the Storm So Long by Leon F. Litwack
  1980 · Pulitzer Prize · History
• Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
  1980 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella
• Timescape by Gregory Benford
  1980 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• The Ugly Chickens by Howard Waldrop
  1980 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• Grotto of the Dancing Deer by Clifford D. Simak
  1980 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story