57th National Book Award finalists are announced, Part I
by sernabad
57th National Book Award finalists are announced, Part I
Last week the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 57th National Book Awards. So get ahead of the pack and try to pick the winners who will be announced November 15, 2006.The finalists are:
Fiction
Mark Z. Danielewski for Only Revolutions
Ken Kalfus, for A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Richard Powers, for The Echo Maker
Dana Spiotta, for Eat the Document
Jess Walter, for The Zero
Nonfiction
Taylor Branch, for At Canaan’s Edge: America in the Kings Years, 1965-68
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone
Timothy Egan, for The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Peter Hessler, for Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present
Lawrence Wright, for The Looming Tower:Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
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