NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

Fiction

T.C. Boyle, "Drop City" (Viking/Penguin Group USA)
Shirley Hazzard, "The Great Fire" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Edward P. Jones, "The Known World" (Amistad/HarperCollins)
Scott Spencer, "A Ship Made of Paper" (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Marianne Wiggins, "Evidence of Things Unseen" (Simon & Schuster)

Nonfiction

Anne Applebaum, "Gulag: A History" (Doubleday/Random House)
George Howe Colt, "The Big House: A Century in the Life of an American
Summer
Home" (Scribner/S&S)
John D’Emilio, "Lost Prophet: The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin"
(Free Press/S&S)
Carlos Eire, "Waiting For Snow in Havana: Confessions of a Cuban Boy"
(Free Press/S&S)
Erik Larson, "The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic and Madness
at the Fair That Changed America" (Crown Publishers/Random House)

Young People’s Literature

Paul Fleischman, "Breakout" (Cricket Books/A Marcato Books/ Carus
Publishing)
Polly Horvath, "The Canning Season" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Jim Murphy, "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the
Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" (Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin)
Richard Peck, "The River Between Us" (Dial Books/Penguin Group USA)
Jacqueline Woodson, "Locomotion" (G.P. Putnam’s Sons./Penguin Group
USA)

Poetry

Carole Muske-Dukes, "Sparrow: Poems" (Random House)
Charles Simic, "The Voice at 3 A.M.: Selected Late and New Poems"
(Harcourt)
Louis Simpson, "The Owner of the House: New Collected Poems,
1940-2001" (BOA Editions)
C.K. Williams, "The Singing: Poems" (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Kevin Young, "Jelly Roll: A Blues" (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)