National Book Award finalists announced
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- October
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The National Book Award finalists were named this morning in Chicago and now I have a perfect list of some top good reads to share with everyone.
In the fiction category the finalists are:
Aleksandar Hemon, “The Lazarus Project” (Riverhead)
Rachel Kushner, “Telex from Cuba” (Scribner)
Peter Matthiessen, “Shadow Country” (Modern Library)
Marilynne Robinson, “Home” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Salvatore Scibona, “The End” (Graywolf Press)
In the nonfiction category the finalists are:
Drew Gilpin Faust, “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (Knopf)
Annette Gordon-Reed, “The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family” (Norton)
Jane Mayer, “The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals” (Doubleday)
Jim Sheeler, “Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives” (Penguin)
Joan Wickersham, “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order” (Harcourt)
To hear author Scott Turow announce the winners go to this site.
For those of you who appreciate some good reading recommendations with literary flair, there are plenty here. The finalists are announced Nov. 18.
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