Announcing the Nominees for the 2013 National Book Awards!

It's that time of year again! The National Book Awards Longlists are out!

Five finalists in each category will be announced on October 16, and the National Book Award Ceremony will be held November 20th!

There are several great titles on this list that I've been hoping to read...although I haven't read any yet. So far behind... ^^;;

I own FAR, FAR AWAY by Tom McNeal and THE SUMMER PRINCE by Alaya Dawn Johnson...I should bump them up the list! And THE REAL BOY by Anne Ursu and THE LOWLAND by Jhumpa Lahiri both came out today, so what great news to celebrate with!

And now, the list I know you want to see...

Fiction:

• Pacific, by Tom Drury
• The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver
• The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
• The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
• A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra
• The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
• Someone, by Alice McDermott
• Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
• Tenth of December: Stories, by George Saunders
• Fools: Stories, by Joan Silber

Nonfiction:

• Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State, by T.D. Allman
• Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, by Gretel Ehrlich
• The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA, by Scott C. Johnson
• Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, by Jill Lepore
• Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields, by Wendy Lower
• Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 by James Oakes
• The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
• The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772–1832, by Alan Taylor
• Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington, by Terry Teachout
• Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright

Poetry:

• Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart
• Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard
• Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
• So Recently Rent a World, by Andrei Codrescu
• Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire, by Brenda Hillman
• The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka
• American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh
• Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
• Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk
• Incarnadine: Poems, by Mary Szybist

Young Adult:

• The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp, by Kathi Appelt
•  Flora and Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures, by Kate DiCamillo
• A Tangle of Knots, by Lisa Graff
• The Summer Prince, by Alaya Dawn Johnson
• The Thing About Luck, by Cynthia Kadohata
• Two Boys Kissing, by David Levithan
• Far Far Away, by Tom McNeal
• Picture Me Gone, by Meg Rosoff
• The Real Boy, by Anne Ursu
• Boxers & Saints, by Gene Luen Yang