Sunday, October 18, 2009

In 2009, 193 publishers submitted 1,129 books for the 2009 National Book Awards.

2009 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS

Fiction

Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (Random House)

Daniyal Mueenuddin, In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (W. W. Norton & Co.)

Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Alfred A. Knopf)

Marcel Theroux, Far North (Farrar Straus and Giroux)