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Need A Good Read? Finalists Announced For National Book Awards

The finalists for the 2015 National Book Awards have been announced, and the field has been narrowed to 20 authors, many of whom are first-timers to the list.

Hanya Yanagihara's novel "A Little Life," is a 2015 National Book Award fiction finalist. She is also on the shortlists for the Man Booker and Kirkus prizes.

Hanya Yanagihara's novel "A Little Life," is a 2015 National Book Award fiction finalist. She is also on the shortlists for the Man Booker and Kirkus prizes.

 Photo Credit: Facebook/Hanya Yanagihara Fan Page
Cindy Capitani

Winners in each category will receive a bronze sculpture and a purse of $10,000, at a ceremony in New York City on Nov. 18.

Fiction finalists:

  • Karen E. Bender, “Refund: Stories” (Counterpoint Press)
  • Angela Flournoy, “The Turner House” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
  • Lauren Groff, “Fates and Furies” (Riverhead Books/Penguin Random House)
  • Adam Johnson, “Fortune Smiles: Stories” (Random House)
  • Hanya Yanagihara, “A Little Life” (Doubleday/Penguin Random House)

Fiction judges:

  • Daniel Alarcón, Jeffery Renard Allen, Sarah Bagby, Laura Lippman, David L. Ulin

Nonfiction finalists:

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates, “Between the World and Me” (Spiegel & Grau/Penguin Random House)
  • Sally Mann, “Hold Still” (Little, Brown/Hachette Book Group)
  • Sy Montgomery, “The Soul of an Octopus” (Atria/Simon & Schuster)
  • Carla Power, “If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran” (Henry Holt and Company)
  • Tracy K. Smith, “Ordinary Light” (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nonfiction judges:

  • Diane Ackerman, Patricia Hill Collins, John D'Agata, Paul Holdengräber, Adrienne Mayor

Poetry finalists:

  • Ross Gay, “Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude” (University of Pittsburgh Press)
  • Terrance Hayes, “How to Be Drawn” (Penguin/Penguin Random House)
  • Robin Coste Lewis, “Voyage of the Sable Venus” (Alfred A. Knopf)
  • Ada Limón, “Bright Dead Things” (Milkweed Editions)
  • Patrick Phillips, “Elegy for a Broken Machine” (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry judges:

  • Sherman Alexie, Willie Perdomo, Katha Pollitt, Tim Seibles, Jan Weissmiller

Young people's literature finalists:

  • Ali Benjamin, “The Thing About Jellyfish” (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers)
  • Laura Ruby, “Bone Gap” (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins Children's Books)
  • Steve Sheinkin, “Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War” (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Children's Publishing Group)
  • Neal Shusterman, “Challenger Deep” (HarperCollins Children's Books)
  • Noelle Stevenson, “Nimona” (HarperTeen/HarperCollins Children's Books)

Young people's literature judges: 

  • John Joseph Adams, Teri Lesesne, Laura McNeal, G. Neri, Eliot Schrefer
Read more about the National Book Awards at its website. 

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