National Book Awards Finalists 2010

The National Book Awards Finalists for 2010 were announced this week.

Fiction

• Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in America
• Jaimy Gordon, Lord of Misrule
• Nicole Krauss, Great House
• Lionel Shriver, So Much for That
• Karen Tei Yamashita, I Hotel

Nonfiction

• Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
• John W. Dower, Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
• Patti Smith, Just Kids
• Justin Spring, Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward
• Megan K. Stack, Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War

Poetry

• Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City
• Terrance Hayes, Lighthead
• James Richardson, By the Numbers
• C.D. Wright, One with Others
• Monica Youn, Ignatz

Young People’s Literature

• Paolo Bacigalupi, Ship Breaker
• Kathryn Erskine, Mockingbird
• Laura McNeal, Dark Water
• Walter Dean Myers, Lockdown
• Rita Williams-Garcia, One Crazy Summer

Find out more about these authors and their works in Literary Reference Center and NoveList.