Finalists for the 2013 National Book Awards were announced yesterday. Presented in four categories by the National Book Foundation, these awards are among the nation's most prestigious literary prizes. Winners will be announced November 20. The 2013 Finalists are:
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: Poems 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 & Saints by Gene Luen Yang
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