National Book Award Finalistst Are Out

This short list of finalists for the National Book Awards includes five titles each in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature. The finalists in Fiction and NonFiction are:

Fiction

• This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
• A Hologram For The King by Dave Eggers
• The Round House by Louise Erdrich
• Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
• The Yellow Birds: A Novel by Kevin Powers

NonFiction

• Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe by Anne Applebaum
• Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
• The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro (also available as an ebook)
• The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez
• House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid

Stop by the library or use our Online Catalog to place a hold on one of these possible award winning books today!