National Book Award
Finalists & Winners
FICTION
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (Winner)
The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon (Reviewed here by James Liu)
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
Home by Marilynne Robinson
The End by Salvatore Scibona
NONFICTION
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed (Winner)
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
POETRY
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty (Winner)
Watching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart
Creatures of a Day by Reginald Gibbons
Without Saying by Richard Howard
Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell (Winner)
Chains: Seeds of America by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Underneath by Kathi Appelt
The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart
The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp
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