National Book Award Finalists Announced
Posted by: Sarah Hunter
This morning, while many of us were only just beginning to wake and stumble into the kitchen for a cup of coffee, the National Book Award finalists were announced on MSNBC. The winner in each category will be announced in a ceremony on November 14th. Here’s the list of nominees, along with links to Booklist reviews where available.
Fiction
This Is How You Lose Her, by Junot Díaz
A Hologram for the King, by Dave Eggers
The Round House, by Louise Erdrich
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
The Yellow Birds, by Kevin Powers
Nonfiction
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956, by Anne Applebaum
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4, by Robert A. Caro
The Boy Kings of Texas, by Domingo Martinez
House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, by Anthony Shadid
Poetry
Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, by David Ferry
Heavenly Bodies, by Cynthia Huntington
Fast Animal, by Tim Seibles
Night of the Republic, by Alan Shapiro
Meme, by Susan Wheeler
Young People’s Literature
Goblin Secrets, by William Alexander
Out of Reach, by Carrie Arcos
Never Fall Down, by Patricia McCormick
Endangered, by Eliot Schrefer
Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon, by Steve Sheinkin
