Wednesday, October 16, 2013

2013 National Book Award Finalists Announced


I'm almost strictly a nonfiction guy, yet the only book I was interested in this year was David Levithan's YA novel "Two Boys Kissing." While it failed to make the cut, I'm still glad the National Book Foundation released the long list and brought it to my attention. Which nominee are you rooting for?


NONFICTION

FINALISTS:

Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Wendy LowerHitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
George PackerThe Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Alan TaylorThe Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton & Company)
Lawrence WrightGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief
(Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)

LONGLIST:

- T.D. AllmanFinding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State (Atlantic Monthly Press)
- Gretel EhrlichFacing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Pantheon Book/Random House)
- Scott C. JohnsonThe Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA (W.W. Norton & Company)
- James OakesFreedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
(W.W. Norton & Company)
- Terry TeachoutDuke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham Books)


YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

FINALISTS:

Kathi AppeltThe True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Cynthia KadohataThe Thing About Luck (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
Tom McNealFar Far Away (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
Meg RosoffPicture Me Gone (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Group USA)
Gene Luen YangBoxers & Saints (First Second/Macmillan)

LONGLIST:

- Kate DiCamilloFlora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures (Candlewick Press)
- Lisa Graff, A Tangle of Knots (Philomel, A division of Penguin Group USA)
- Alaya Dawn JohnsonThe Summer Prince (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
- David LevithanTwo Boys Kissing (Knopf Books for Young Readers/Random House)
- Anne UrsuThe Real Boy (Walden Pond Press/an Imprint HarperCollinsPublishers)

JUDGES:

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1 comment:

Prospero said...

I am proud to be friends with Matty, one of the real boys on which this novel is based and couldn't be prouder of its (and his) success!