The 20 Finalists for the 2009 National Book Awards have been announced and will be presentd on November 18, 2009. The finalists are:
Fiction:
* Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
* Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)
* Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)
* Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)
* Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Non Fiction:
* David M. Carroll, Following the Water: A Hydromancer's Notebook
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Sean B. Carroll, Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
* Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt)
* Adrienne Mayor, The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's * Deadliest Enemy (Princeton University Press)
* T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
(Alfred A. Knopf)
Poetry:
* Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan University Press)
* Ann Lauterbach, Or to Begin Again (Viking Penguin)
* Carl Phillips, Speak Low (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, Open Interval (University of Pittsburgh Press)
* Keith Waldrop, Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy
(University of California Press)
Young People's Literature:
* Deborah Heiligman, Charles and Emma: The Darwins’ Leap of Faith
(Henry Holt)
* Phillip Hoose, Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
* David Small, Stitches (W. W. Norton & Co.)
* Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times (Arthur A. Levine Books/Scholastic)
* Rita Williams-Garcia, Jumped (HarperTeen/HarperCollins)
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