2014 Longlists For The National Book Award Announced!

Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. The mission of the National Book Foundation and the National Book Awards is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America. Recently the 2014 Longlists were announced in the areas of Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry and Young People's Literature. One Winner 
in each category will be announced at the National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner on November 19, 2014 in New York City. Winners will each receive a prize of $10,000. Finalists will each receive a prize of $1,000. You can see the full lists below and then visit the library's catalog to find some of the finalists on your library shelves! The National Book Foundation website is also full of other literary information from author interviews and book chats on video, to other programs for adults and teens, so be sure to visit and click around! 

Fiction: 

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman 
• Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans 
• John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van 
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See 
• Phil Klay, Redeployment 
• Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
• Elizabeth McCracken, Thunderstruck & Other Stories 
• Richard Powers, Orfeo 
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila 
• Jane Smiley, Some Luck 

Nonfiction:

• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
• John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
• Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
• Nigel Hamilton, The Mantle of Command: FDR at War, 1941 - 1942
• Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh 
• Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
• Ronald C. Rosbottom, When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944 
• Matthew Stewart, Nature's God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic 
• Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence 

Poetry:

• Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion 
• Brian Blanchfield, A Several World 
• Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night 
• Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem 
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood
• Maureen N. McLane, This Blue 
• Fred Moten, The Feel Trio
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
• Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus
• Mark Strand, Collected Poems

Young People's Literature:

• Laurie Halse Anderson, The Impossible Knife of Memory 
• Gail Giles, Girls Like Us 
• Carl Hiaasen, Skink—No Surrender 
• Kate Milford, Greenglass House 
• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened 
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights 
• Andrew Smith, 100 Sideways Miles 
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin 
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two 
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming