The National Book Award

Have you heard about the National Book Award debacle? The Awards will be announced on November 16th. Here are the nominees (with an error on the YA section--more on that later):

Fiction
THE SOJOURN by Andrew Krivak,
THE TIGER'S WIFE by Tea Obreht
THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC by Julie Otsuka
BINOCULAR VISION by Edith Pearlman
SALVAGE THE BONES by Jesmyn Ward

Non-Fiction
THE CONVERT: A Tale of Exile and Extremism by Deborah Baker
LOVE AND CAPITAL: Karl & Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel
THE SWERVE: How the World Became Modern by Stephen Greenblatt
MALCOLM X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
RADIOACTIVE: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss

Poetry
HEAD OFF & SPLIT by Nikki Finney
THE CHAMELEON COUCH by Yusef Komunyakaa
DOUBLE SHADOWS by Carl Phillips
TONIGHT NO POETRY WILL SERVE: POEMS 2007-2010 by Adrienne Rich
DEVOTIONS by Bruce Smith,

Young People's Literature
MY NAME IS NOT EASY by Debby Dahl Edwardson
INSIDE OUT AND BACK AGAIN by Thanhha Lai
FLESH AND BLOOD SO CHEAP: THE TRIANGLE FIRE AND ITS LEGACY by Alfred Marrin
SHINE by Lauren Myracle*
OKAY FOR NOW by Gary D. Schmidt

*So, it turns out that SHINE was listed in error. What they meant to say was that CHIME by Franny Billingsley was on the list. Here is a PW article on the blunder, and here is author (and wife of Myracle's agent, Barry Goldblatt) Libba Bray's take on the situation.