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October 17, 2006

National Book Award Finalists

Some of us are still reading Europe Central, the 811 page book that won last year's prize for fiction by William Vollmann. It beat out The March by E. L. Doctorow, a book many Library staff thought should have won.

Two books popular with Darien Library readers, Jess Walter's The Zero and Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower: Al-Quaeda and the Road to 9/11, are up for this year's National Book Award in Fiction and Non-Fiction respectively. The literary awards, presented each year by the National Book Foundation, will be given out on November 15th in New York City. Other finalist up for the prestigious award include:

FICTION:
Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions
Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document

NONFICTION
Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq's Green Zone
Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present

Posted by MaryF at October 17, 2006 03:11 PM