2014 National Book Award Finalists Announced

The National Book Award finalists were announced this morning, when five authors were chosen from the award's longlists in the categories of Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry and Nonfiction. The nominees include a debut short story writer who fictionalizes his service in Iraq, two Pulitzer Prize winners, and a former U.S. Poet Laureate.



Below are the fnalists for the 2014 National Book Awards:



2014 Finalists for the National Book Award for 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



Read our interview with finalist Anthony Doerr.



2014 Finalists for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature:







Eliot Schrefer, Threatened

Scholastic Press/ Scholastic



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/ Scholastic



Jacqueline Woodson, Brown Girl Dreaming

Nancy Paulsen Books/ Penguin Group (USA)



2014 Finalists for the National Book Award for 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



2014 Finalists for the National Book Award for 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



Read an excerpt of E.O. Wilson's nominated title.