National Book Award Finalists for 2008 Announced!
For the complete list including children’s literature and poetry, visit the NBA site!
Fiction
- The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon
- Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner
- Shadow Country by Peter Mattheissen
- Home by Marilynne Robinson
- The End by Salvatore Scibona
Nonfiction:
- The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust
- The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
- The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer
- Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler
- The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham
I’ve only read Home (and loved it!) — Has anyone read any of the others? Any buzz on who might win?
