The National Book Foundation named finalists for this year's National Book Awards. The winners will be named November 20. This year's shortlisted titles are:
Fiction
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner (Scribner)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri (Knopf)
The Good Lord Bird by James McBride (Riverhead)
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)
Tenth of December by George Saunders (Random House)
Nonfiction
The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore (Knopf)
Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer (FSG)
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor (Norton)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Knopf)
Poetry
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart (FSG)
Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido (Knopf)
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka (Penguin Poets)
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen (Louisiana State University Press)
Incarnadine by Mary Szybist (Graywolf Press)
Young People's Literature
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal (Knopf)
Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff (Putnam)
Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang (First Second/Macmillan)
