National Book Award Finalists for 2011 Announced today!
Posted by: Sarah Hunter
The National Book Foundation has named their picks for this year’s National Book award in four categories, Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. The winner of each category will be announced at a gala dinner on November 16th. Check out what Booklist reviews had to say about the selections below!
Fiction:
The Sojourn By Andrew Krivak
The Tiger’s Wife By Téa Obreht
The Buddha in the Attic By Julie Otsuka
Binocular Vision By Edith Pearlman
Salvage the Bones By Jesmyn Ward
Nonfiction:
The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism By Deborah Baker
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution By Mary Gabriel
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern By Stephen Greenblatt
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By Manning Marable
Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout By Lauren Redniss
Poetry:
Head Off & Split By Nikky Finney
The Chameleon Couch By Yusef Komunyakaa
Double Shadow By Carl Phillips
Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems 2007-2010 By Adrienne Rich
Devotions By Bruce Smith
Young People’s Literature
Chime By Franny Billingsley
My Name Is Not Easy By Debby Dahl Edwardson
Inside Out and Back Again By Thanhha Lai
Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy By Albert Marrin
Okay for Now By Gary D. Schmidt
