1973 in literature

See also: 1972 in literature, other events of 1973, 1974 in literature, list of years in literature.

New books

• The Billion Dollar Sure Thing – Paul E. Erdman
• The Black Prince - Iris Murdoch
• Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Burnt Offerings - Robert Marasco
• Burr - Gore Vidal
• The Court-Martial of Daniel Boone - Allan W. Eckert
• Cromwell, our Chief of Men - Antonia Fraser
• Demon Seed - Dean R. Koontz
• The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker
• Devil Tree - Jerzy Kosinski
• Evening in Byzantium - Irwin Shaw
• Eye of the Storm - Patrick White
• Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 - Hunter S Thompson
• Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
• The Honorary Consul - Graham Greene
• If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Send Me Home - Tim O'Brien
• ' - John Pearson
• The Matlock Paper - Robert Ludlum
• Momo - Michael Ende
• The Odessa File - Frederick Forsyth
• Once Is Not Enough - Jacqueline Susann
• The Rachel Papers - Martin Amis
• The Rhyme of the Flying Bomb - Mervyn Peake (posthumous)
• The Stone That Never Came Down - John Brunner
• Sula - Toni Morrison
• Tar Baby - Jerome Charyn
• Temporary Kings - Anthony Powell
• Temptations of Big Bear - Rudy Wiebe
• There Is A Tree More Ancient Than Eden - Leon Forrest
• A Touch of Danger - James Jones
• Who Are You? - Anna Kavan