Thursday, October 11, 2012

National Book Award Nominees announced

The following books have been nominated for the National Book Award, with the winners being announced on November 14th.  Follow the links to reserve your copy!

Fiction:
Junot Diaz, This is How You Lose Her
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
Louise Erdich, The Round House
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds


Non-Fiction
Ann Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4
Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East 

Poetry:
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
Tim Seibles,  Fast Animal
Alan Shapiro,  Night of the Republic
Susan Wheeler,  Meme

Young Peoples Literature:
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon





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