The National Book Foundation announced finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards, which celebrate the best of American literature. Winners will be announced on November 19.
FICTION
Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (CD book)
Phil Klay, Redeployment (eBook)
Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (audio download, eBook)
Marilynne Robinson, Lila
NONFICTION
Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes
John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Edward O. Wilson, The Meaning of Human Existence