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.