National Book Award Finalists Announced

The National Book Foundation has named the 2008 National Book Award finalists.can Winners in each of these categories will be announced at a ceremony on November 19 in New York City. The NBA finalists are:
Fiction:The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon ; Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushnerem;Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen; Home by Marilynne Robinson; The End by Salvatore Scibona.
Nonfiction: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew Gilpin Faust ; The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed;The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals by Jane Mayer; Final Salute: A Story of Unfinished Lives by Jim Sheeler; The Suicide Index: Putting My Father’s Death in Order by Joan Wickersham.
PoetryWatching the Spring Festival by Frank Bidart;Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty; Creatures of a Day by Reginald Gibbons; Without Saying by Richard Howard; Blood Dazzler by Patricia Smith.
Young People's Literature:Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson; The Underneath by Kathi Appelt (Atheneum);What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell;The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart; The Spectacular Now by Tim Tharp .