Wednesday, October 14, 2015

National Book Award Finalists Announced!

Below is the list of finalists for the National Book Award - have you read any of them? Well, here's your chance!


Fiction Finalists:

Refund by Karen E. Bender
The Turner House by Angela Flournoy
Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff
Fortune Smiles by Adam Johnson
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Non-Fiction Finalists:

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates*
Hold Still by Sally Mann
The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery
If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran by Carla Power
Ordinary Light by Tracy K. Smith

Poetry Finalists:

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay
How to Be Drawn by Terrence Hayes
Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis
Bright Dead Things by Ada Limón 
Elegy for a Broken Machine by Patrick Phillips

Young Adult Finalists

The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
Bone Gap by Laura Ruby*
Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsburg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War by Steve Sheinkin
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman*
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson*

*Means item is owned by William Hall

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