After reviewing over 1,400 submissions, the judges for the
National Book Awards have announced the finalists for 2013. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony on November 20th, 2013. This year’s finalists include the following:
Fiction
- The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
- The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
- Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
- Tenth of December, by George Saunders
Nonfiction
- Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore
- Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower
- The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
- The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor
- Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright
Poetry
- Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart
- Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
- The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka
- Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
- Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist
Young People’s Literature
- The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt
- The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
- Far Far Away, by Tom McNeal
- Picture Me Gone, by Meg Rosoff
- Boxers and Saints, by Gene Luen Yang
