National Book Award Finalists

The finalists for the National Book Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature were recently announced.  I pay more attention to some book awards than others and this is one that I never miss.  These titles that made the final round in fiction and nonfiction are available through the library:

Fiction

This is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

Nonfiction

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
House of Stone by Anthony Shadid

Go to this link for more information on the 2012 awards.