The National Book Awards announced its 2009 finalists earlier this month. This year’s finalists are an interesting bunch, notable for their topical diversity as well as their lack of big names. There was no room in the inn this year for literary giants such as Philip Roth and Lorrie Moore.
The winners will be announced in Manhattan Wednesday, November 18th. 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books divided among the following four categories.
Fiction (236 entries)
American Salvage (Bonnie Jo Campbell)
Let the Great World Spin (Colum McCann)
In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (Daniyal Mueenuddin)
Lark and Termite (Jayne Anne Phillips)
Far North (Marcel Theroux)
Nonfiction (481 entries)
Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook (David M. Carroll)
Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Sean B Carroll)
Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Greg Grandin)
The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy - on order (Adrienne Mayor)
The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (T.J. Stiles)
Poetry (161 entries)
Versed (Rae Armantrout)
Or to Begin Again (Ann Lauterbach)
Speak Low (Carl Phillips)
Open Interval - on order (Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon)
Transcendental Studies - on order (Keith Waldrop)
Young People’s Literature (251 entries)
Charles and Emma: The Darwin’s Leap of Faith (Deborah Heiligman)
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Phillip Hoose)
Stitches - on order (David Small)
Lips Touch: Three Times - on order (Laini Taylor)
Jumped (Rita Williams-Garcia)
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