2008 National Book Awards Finalists
Wednesday October 15, 2008
271 titles were submitted in the Fiction category and the 5 National Book Awards Finalists in Fiction, announced today, are:
- Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
- Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
- Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
- Marilynne Robinson, Home
- Salvatore Scibona, The End
The National Book Award Nonfiction finalists were largely history-focused on topics that ranged from the Civil War to a book about soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan:
- Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
- Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
- Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals
- Jim Sheeler, Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
- Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order
The winners in each category will be announced at the 59th National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner in New York.
Comments
Hey! Give some love to the poetry and the young people’s lit finalists, too.
Poetry
Frank Bidart, Watching the Spring Festival
Mark Doty, Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
Reginald Gibbons, Creatures of a Day
Richard Howard, Without Saying
Patricia Smith, Blood Dazzler
Young People’s Literature
Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now