Friday, September 19, 2014

National Book Award Fiction Longlist, and More Awards

Publishers Lunch


The National Book Awards closed out their week of longlists with its ten-book fiction list. Originally slated for announcement on Thursday at 8 AM, the list was first leaked Wednesday evening after 7 PM by the Huffington Post, after which it was posted by the NYT and on the National Book website. The full list:

Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (Norton)
John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner)
Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Knopf)
Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories (The Dial Press)
Richard Powers, Orfeo (Norton)
Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Jane Smiley, Some Luck (Knopf)

In other awards news, the latest shortlist is the nominees for Canada's Hilary West Writers' Trust Prize for nonfiction:

Susan Delacourt, Shopping for Votes: How Politicians Choose Us and We Choose Them (Douglas & McIntyre)
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Knopf Canada/S&S)
Charles Montgomery, Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Doubleday Canada/FSG)
Paula Todd, Extreme Mean: Trolls, Bullies, and Predators Online (Signal)
Kathleen Winter, Boundless: Tracing Land and Dream in a New Northwest Passage (Hous
e of Anansi Press) 

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