Wednesday, October 10, 2012

National Book Award Finalists Named


Click HERE to see the complete list of this year's National Book Award finalists.

My fave category is nonfiction, of course, which consists of: “Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956,” by Pulitzer Prize-winner and Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum; “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” by Pulitzer Prize-winner and former Washington Post writer Katherine Boo; “The Passage of Power,” the fourth volume of Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning series on Lyndon Johnson; “The Boy Kings of Texas,” a memoir by Domingo Martinez; and “House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East,” by Anthony Shadid, the former Washington Post and New York Times writer who won two Pulitzer Prizes and died last year in Syria during an asthma attack.

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