2014 National Book Award Finalists Announced

The 20 finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature were announced on Wednesday morning, October 15, on NPR’s Morning Edition. The awards were revealed on the show by former ABA president Mitchell Kaplan, the 2011 recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community, the cofounder of Miami Book Fair International, and the owner of Books & Books in Coral Gables, Florida. The finalists are:

FICTION

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press/Grove/Atlantic)
• Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA)
• Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

NONFICTION

• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)
• Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company)
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence (Liveright Publishing Corporation/W.W. Norton & Company)

POETRY

• Louise Glück, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
• Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE

• Eliot Schrefer, Threatened (Scholastic Press)
• Steve Sheinkin, The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)
• John Corey Whaley, Noggin (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)
• Deborah Wiles, Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two (Scholastic Press)
• Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group USA)

The winners will be announced at the 65th National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner in New York City on Wednesday, November 19, 2013.