2010 National Book Award Finalists Announced

Last winners were Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann (Fiction), The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles (NonFiction), Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy by Keith Waldrop (Poetry), and Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip Hoose (Young People's Literature).

Fiction

• Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
• Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon*
• Great House by Nicole Krauss
• So Much for That by Lionel Shriver
• I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita

NonFiction

• Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
 by Barbara Demick
• Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq
 by John W. Dower
• Just Kids by Patti Smith
• Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward 
by Justin Spring
• Every Man in This Village Is a Liar: An Education in War by Megan K. Stack

Poetry

• The Eternal City by Kathleen Graber^
• Lighthead by Terrance Hayes
• By the Numbers by James Richardson*
• One with Others by C.D. Wright*
• Ignatz by Monica Youn**

Young People's Literature

• Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi
• Mockingbird 
by Kathryn Erskine
• Dark Water by Laura McNeal
• Lockdown 
by Walter Dean Myers
• One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia

* = Not Yet Released

^ = Available through ILL

** = Available through Prospector