2010 National Book Awards Nominees

The National Book Foundation announced the nominees for the 2010 National Book Awards. The winners will be announced on November 17. How many have you read?

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 Stack

Poetry

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

Young People's Literature

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

*For books not owned by libraries in the Jefferson County Library Cooperative, try borrowing them through Interlibrary Loan.