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