The National Book Award reversed their recent trend and nominated a solid and mainstream set of books in the fiction and nonfiction categories. Among publishers, Random House garnered the most nominations in those two areas (though all in nonfiction), with a poignant posthumous nomination for Anthony Shadid. Winners will be named November 14.
Fiction
Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead)
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (McSweeney’s)
Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper)
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco)
Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain (Doubleday)
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House)
Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power (Knopf)
Domingo Martinez, Boy Kings of Texas (Lyons Press)
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone (HMH)
Young People’s Literature
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets (Margaret K. McElderry)
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach (Simon Pulse)
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down (Balzer + Bray)
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered (Scholastic)
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build―and Steal―the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon (Flash Point/Roaring Brook)
Poetry
David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies,
Tim Seibles, Fast Animal
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Susan Wheeler, Meme