National Book Award Nominees Announced

For fiction:
Bonnie Jo Campbell's American Salvage
Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin
Daniyal Mueenuddin's In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Jayne Ann Phillips's Lark and Termite
Marcel Theroux's Far North

For non-fiction:
T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
Greg Grandin's Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
David M. Carroll's Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
Sean B. Carroll's Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in Search for the Origin of Species
Adrienne Mayor's The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy

For poetry:
Ann Lauterbach's Or To Begin Again
Carl Phillips's Speak Low
Rae Armantrout's Versed
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon's Open Interval
Keith Waldrop's Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy

For young people's literature:
Deborah Heiligman's Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
Phillip Hoose's Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
David Small's Stitches
Laini Taylor's Lips Touch: Three Times
Rita Williams-Garcia's Jumped

Winners will be announced on November 18th!