National Book Award

The finalists for the National Book Award have been announced:

Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project - Call number F Hemon
Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
Marilynne Robinson, Home - Call number is F Robinson
Salvatore Scibona, The End

Nonfiction
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War - Call number LT 973.71 Fau
Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family - Call number Bc Hemingses
Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals - Call number 973.931 May
Jim Sheeler, Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives
Joan Wickersham, The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order

Click here to see more finalists in young people's literature and poetry.