Our colleagues at Oregon Public Broadcasting's Think Out Loud hosted today's announcement of the 20 finalists for this year's National Book Awards.
They report that the nominees are:
National Book Awards Finalists
Young People's Literature
Author — Title — Publisher
-- Debby Dahl Edwardson — My Name is Not Easy — Marshall Cavendish
-- Thanhha Lai — Inside Out & Back Again --Harper/HarperCollins
-- Albert Marrin — Flesh & Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy / Alfred A. Knopf
-- Lauren Myracle — Shine — Amulet/Abrams
-- Gary D. Schmidt — Okay for Now — Clarion/HMH
Poetry
Author — Title — Publisher
-- Nikky Finney — Head Off & Split — Triquarterly/Northwestern University
-- Yusef Komunyakaa — The Chameleon Couch — FSG
-- Carl Phillips — Double Shadow — FSG
-- Adrienne Rich — Tonight No Poetry Will Serve — W.W. Norton & Company
-- Bruce Smith — Devotions — University of Chicago Press
Non-Fiction
Author — Title — Publisher
-- Deborah Baker — The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism — Graywolf Press
-- Mary Gabriel — Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution — Little, Brown
-- Stephen Greenblatt — The Swerve: How the World Became Modern --- W.W. Norton
-- Manning Marable — Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention — Viking
-- Lauren Redniss — Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie, A Tale of Love and Fallout — It: HarperCollins
Fiction
Author — Title — Publisher
-- Andrew Krivak — The Sojourn — Bellevue Literary Press
-- Tea Obreht — The Tiger's Wife -- Random House
-- Julie Otsuka — The Buddha in the Attic — Knopf
-- Edith Pearlman — Binocular Vision — Lookout
-- Jesmyn Ward — Salvage the Bones — Bloomsbury USA
The awards are administered by the nonprofit National Book Foundation. The winners are due to be announced in mid-November.
There's an Oregon Public Broadcasting slideshow about the awards' history, here.
The Associated Press sums up this year's nomination news with this:
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