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God is Not Great is a National Book Award finalists (which affects my life just a tiny bit)
By Jennifer 8. Lee | October 10, 2007
Christopher Hitchen’s book, God is Not Great (now with its own Wikipedia entry!), is a National Book Award finalist. Which is fantastic. It affects my life only in a little bit in that Cary called e-mailed me this morning to tell me we have to move my pre-pub dinners with booksellers up a week in November so it doesn’t conflict with National Book Award week. Tim Weiner, a fellow NYTimes reporter, also is a finalist for Legacy of Ashes; The History of the CIA. Yay)
Full list of finalists after the jump…
2007 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTS
Fiction
- Mischa Berlinski, Fieldwork (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Lydia Davis, Varieties of Disturbance (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End (Little, Brown & Company)
- Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
- Jim Shepard, Like You’d Understand, Anyway (Alfred A. Knopf)
Nonfiction
- Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- (Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA)
- Woody Holton, Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution (Hill and
- Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
- Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison: A Biography (Alfred A. Knopf)
- Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA (Doubleday)
Poetry
- Linda Gregerson, Magnetic North (Houghton Mifflin Company)
- Robert Hass, Time and Materials (Ecco/HarperCollins)
- David Kirby, The House on Boulevard St. (Louisiana State University Press)
- Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (W.W. Norton & Company)
- Ellen Bryant Voigt, Messenger (W.W. Norton & Company)
Young People’s Literature
- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (Little, Brown &
- Company)
- Kathleen Duey, Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One (Atheneum Book for Young Readers
- M. Sindy Felin, Touching Snow (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
- Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret (Scholastic Press)
- Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl (Little, Brown & Company)
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