National Book Awards: The Long Lists

The National Book Foundation has release 4 longlists of titles under consideration for this years awards, including the following fiction and nonfiction titles available from CLAMS:

FICTION LONGLIST:

• Tom Drury, Pacific (Grove Press)
• Elizabeth Graver, The End of the Point (Harper/HarperCollinsPublishers)
• Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Jhumpa Lahiri, The Lowland (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House)
• Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth/Random House)
• James McBride, The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Books/Penguin Group USA)
• Alice McDermott, Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Thomas Pynchon, Bleeding Edge (The Penguin Press/Penguin Group USA)
• George Saunders, Tenth of December (Random House)
• Joan Silber, Fools (W.W. Norton & Company)

NONFICTION LONGLIST:

• T.D. Allman, Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Gretel Ehrlich, Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami (Pantheon Book/Random House, Inc.)
• Scott C. Johnson, The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Jill Lepore, Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, Inc. )
• Wendy Lower, Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• James Oakes, Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
• (W.W. Norton & Company)
• George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Alan Taylor, The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 (W.W. Norton & Company)
• Terry Teachout, Duke: A Life of Duke Ellington (Gotham Books)
• Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief (Alfred A. Knopf/Random House, Inc. )