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National Book Award Nominees Announced

By JAMIE SWENSON Wednesday, October 12, 2011 - 12:42 p.m.

Looking for some good reads as our brilliant autumn weather inches ever closer to those cold (dare I say it?) WINTER days? The National Book Award nominees were announced this morning. The winners will be announced on November 16th. I would say this list would be a pretty good place to start as you look for your next great read:

Adult Fiction

Andrew Krivak, THE SOJOURN (Bellevue Literary Press)

Tea Obreht, THE TIGER'S WIFE (Random House)

Julie Otsuka, THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (Knopf)

Edith Pearlman, BINOCULAR VISION (Lookout Books)

Jesmyn Ward, SALVAGE THE BONES (Bloomsbury)

Non-Fiction

Deborah Baker, THE CONVERT: A Tale of Exile and Extremism (Graywolf)

Mary Gabriel, LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl & Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (Little, Brown)

Stephen Greenblatt, THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern (Norton)

Manning Marable, MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)

Lauren Redniss, RADIOACTIVE: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout (It Books)

Poetry

Nikki Finney, HEAD OFF & SPLIT (Triquarterly)

Yusef Komunyakaa, THE CHAMELEON COUCH (FSG)

Carl Phillips, DOUBLE SHADOWS (FSG)

Adrienne Rich, TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE: POEMS 2007-2010 (Norton)

Bruce Smith, DEVOTIONS (University Of Chicago Press)

Young People's Literature

Debby Dahl Edwardson, MY NAME IS NOT EASY (Marshall Cavendish)

Thanhha Lai, INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN (Harper)

Alfred Marrin, FLESH AND BLOOD SO CHEAP: THE TRIANGLE FIRE AND ITS LEGACY (Knopf)

Lauren Myracle, SHINE (Amulet/Abrams)

Gary D. Schmidt, OKAY FOR NOW (Clarion/HMH)

Good luck to all the nominees (especially Gary D. Schmidt - a brilliant teacher who inspired me time and time again as I worked toward my M.F.A. at Hamline University).

Click here for more information about the National Book Awards (a tradition since 1950).

Happy Reading, Jamie

Jamie Swenson is a children's author and an employee of Hedberg Public Library. She is a community blogger and is not a part of The Gazette staff. Her opinion is not necessarily that of the The Gazette staff or management.

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bwheelock
Oct 12, 2011 at 1:22 p.m.
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Jamie- Thanks for posting this list! I loved The Tiger's Wife (and it's incredible the author is in her 20s). I look forward to checking out the other titles here!
Beth

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