1985

• The Bone People by Keri Hulme
  1985 · Booker Prize · Fiction
• The Crystal Spheres by David Brin
  1985 · Hugo Awards · Best Short Story
• Press Enter by John Varley
  1985 · Hugo Awards · Best Novella
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
  1985 · Hugo Awards · Best Novel
• Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler
  1985 · Hugo Awards · Best Novelette
• Yin by Carolyn Kizer
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · Poetry
• The Life and Times of Cotton Mather by Kenneth Silverman
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · Biography
• The Good War: An Oral History of World War Two by Studs Terkel
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · General Nonfiction
• Sunday in the Park With George by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · Drama
• Prophets of Regulation by Thomas K. McCraw
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · History
• Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
  1985 · Pulitzer Prizes · Fiction
• The Barracks Thief by Tobias Wolff
  1985 · PEN/Faulkner Award · Fiction
• Sailing to Byzantium by Robert Silverberg
  1985 · Nebula Awards · Best Novella
• Portraits of His Children by George R.R. Martin
  1985 · Nebula Awards · Best Novelette
• Out of All Them Bright Stars by Nancy Kress
  1985 · Nebula Awards · Best Short Story
• Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
  1985 · Nebula Awards · Best Novel
• Dreams of Sleep by Josephine Humphreys
  1985 · PEN/Hemingway Award · Debut Novel