US National Book Awards

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize given to writers by writers and administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. In order to be eligible for the Award, a book must be written by an American citizen and published by an American publisher between December 1 of the previous year and November 30 of the current year.

This years the nominees are:

Fiction:

Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King

Louise Erdrich, The Round House

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
check the catalogue : http://goo.gl/xxGgv

Non-Fiction:

Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
check the catalogue : http://goo.gl/Eiipk

Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4

Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas

Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East

Poetry:

David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations

Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies

Tim Seibles, Fast Animal

Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic

Susan Wheeler, Meme

Young people’s literature:

William Alexander, Goblin Secrets

Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach

Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down

Eliot Schrefer, Endangered

Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World’s Most Dangerous Weapon