National Book Award Finalists
Announced on NPR’s Morning Edition today, the finalist for the National Book Awards (winners to be announced on Nov. 19). Listen here, or see the list below:
Fiction
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman, (Grove Press, Brilliance Audio), OverDrive Sample
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, (S&S/Scribner; S&S Audio; Thorndike), OverDrive Sample— Both a LibraryReads and an IndieNext pick
Phil Klay, Redeployment, (Penguin Press; Penguin Audio; Thorndike), OverDrive Sample
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (RH/Knopf; RH Audio; Thorndike), OverDrive Sample — LibraryReads pick
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Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Macmillan/FSG; Macmillan Audio; Thorndike), OverDrive Sample — IndieNext pick
Nonfiction
Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Macmillan/Bloomsbury), OverDrive Sample
Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
(Macmillan/Holt; Highbridge), OverDrive Sample
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, (Norton; Brilliance), OverDrive Sample
Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Macmillan/FSG, Brilliance Audio), OverDrive Sample
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence, (Norton/Liveright)
Young People’s Literature
Threatened, Eliot Schrefer, (Scholastic Press), OverDrive Sample — The author’s previous book, Endangered, was a 2012 finalist
The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights, Steve Sheinkin, (Macmillan/Roaring Brook; Listening Library), OverDrive Sample — The author’s Bomb: The Race to Build and Steal The World’s Most Dangerous Weapon was a 2012 finalist
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Noggin, John Corey Whaley, (S&S/Atheneum; S&S Audio), OverDrive Sample — The author’s Where Things Come Back, was a Printz Award Winner
Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two, Deborah Wiles, (Scholastic Press; Listening Library) — The author’s Each Little Bird That Sings, was a National Book Award Finalist
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Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson, (Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group; Listening Library), OverDrive Sample — The author was a finalist for both Locomotion and Hush
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Poetry
Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night, (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), OverDrive Sample
Fanny Howe, Second Childhood, (Graywolf Press)
Maureen N. McLane, This Blue, (Macmillan/Farrar, Straus and Giroux), OverDrive Sample
Fred Moten, The Feel Trio, (Letter Machine Editions)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric, (Graywolf Press)