2011 National Book Award Finalists Announced

Here’s a list of the finalists in all four categories…

Fiction:

• The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak (excerpt)
• The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht (excerpt)
• The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka (excerpt)
• Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman (excerpt)
• Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward (excerpt)

Nonfiction:

• The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker (excerpt)
• Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel (excerpt)
• The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt (excerpt)
• Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable (our review)
• Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss (excerpt)

Poetry:

• Head Off & Split by Nikky Finney
• The Chameleon Couch by Yusef Komunyakaa
• Double Shadow by Carl Phillips
• Tonight No Poetry Will Serve: Poems: 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich (excerpt)
• Devotions by Bruce Smith

Young People’s Literature:

• My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
• Inside Out & Back Again by Thanhha Lai (excerpt)
• Flesh and Blood So Cheap: The Triangle Fire and Its Legacy by Albert Marrin (excerpt)
• Shine by Lauren Myracle
• Okay for Now by Gary D. Schmidt (excerpt)

via The Millions