National Book Award finalists announced
The National Book Foundation has announced the finalists for the fiction, non-fiction, poetry and young people's literature National Book Awards.
See the full list of finalists below:
Fiction:
- Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
- Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner)
- Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press)
- Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non-fiction:
- Roz Chast, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
- Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Henry Holt)
- John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)
- Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
- (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (W.W. Norton & Co.)
Poetry:
- Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
- Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
- Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
Young People's Literature:
- Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
- Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press)
- John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
- Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books)
The winners will be revealed at a ceremony on Nov. 19 in New York.