Just saw the shortlist and it's an intriguing one. I'll note in bold the ones I have read and will link to the ones I have reviewed before. Uncertain if I'll have time to read/review any (I'm behind as it is for National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists) before the April 20 awards banquet, but I may at least try to review some of the winners later:
Biography
Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned,
John A. Farrell (Doubleday)
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, Manning Marable (Viking)
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman,
Robert K. Massie (Random House)
Reading My Father: A Memoir, Alexandra
Styron (Scribner)
My Long Trip Home, Mark Whitaker (Simon
& Schuster)
Current Interest
Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation
and the Meaning of Everything,
David Bellos (Faber & Faber/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal
Insurgency, Ioan Grillo (Bloomsbury Press)
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Pakistan: A Hard Country, Anatol Lieven
(PublicAffairs)
The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine,
Science and Fear, Seth Mnookin (Simon & Schuster)
Fiction
Ghost Light, Joseph O’Connor (A Frances
Coady Book/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The Cat’s Table, Michael Ondaatje
(Knopf)
The Buddha in the Attic, Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories, Edith Pearlman (Lookout
Books/University of North Carolina Wilmington)
Luminarium, Alex Shakar (SoHo Press)
Art Seidenbaum Award
for First Fiction
The
Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach (Little, Brown & Company)
Ten
Thousand Saints, Eleanor Henderson (Ecco/HarperCollins)
Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner
(Coffee House Press)
Shards, Ismet Prcic (Black
Cat/Grove/Atlantic)
The Arriviste, James Wallenstein
(Milkweed Editions)
Graphic Novel
I Will Bite You! And Other Stories,
Joseph Lambert (Secret Acres)
Celluloid, Dave McKean (Fantagraphics)
Finder: Voice, Carla Speed McNeil (Dark
Horse)
Congress of the Animals, Jim Woodring
(Fantagraphics)
Garden, Yuichi Yokoyama (PictureBox)
History
The Anatomy of a Moment: Thirty-Five Minutes
in History and Imagination, Javier Cercas (Bloomsbury USA)
1861: The Civil War Awakening, Adam
Goodheart (Knopf)
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and
Rebellion, 1914-1918, Adam Hochschild (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Molotov’s Magic Lantern: A Journey in
Russian History, Rachel Polonsky (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the
Making of Modern America, Richard White (W.W. Norton & Company)
Mystery / Thriller
Started Early, Took My Dog, Kate
Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
Plugged, Eoin Colfer (The Overlook
Press)
11/22/1963, Stephen King (Scribner)
Snowdrops:
A Novel, A.D. Miller (Doubleday)
The End of Wasp Season, Denise Mina
(Reagan Arthur Books/Hachette Book Group)
Poetry
Songs of Unreason, Jim Harrison (Copper
Canyon Press)
Discipline, Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat
Books)
The Public Gardens, Linda Norton
(Pressed Wafer)
DoubleShadow: Poems, Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Devotions,
Bruce Smith (University of Chicago Press)
Science &
Technology
A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to
Kill the BP Oil Gusher, Joel Achenbach (Simon & Schuster)
The Information: A History, A Theory, A
Flood, James Gleick (Pantheon)
Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over
Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Mara Hvistendahl
(PublicAffairs)
Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius,
Sylvia Nasar (Simon & Schuster)
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in
the Scientific Revolution, Holly Tucker (W.W. Norton & Company)
Young Adult
Literature
Beauty Queens, Libba Bray (Scholastic
Press)
The Big Crunch, Pete Hautman (Scholastic
Press)
A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from
Siobhan Dowd, Patrick Ness (Candlewick Press)
Life: An Exploded Diagram, Mal Peet (Candlewick Press)
The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
(Scholastic Press)
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