Here is the list of Finalists [Any title that is hyperlinked is available through the Greenwich Library system]:
Fiction:
- Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions
- Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country
- Richard Powers, The Echo Maker
- Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document
- Jess Walter, The Zero
Non-Fiction:
- Taylor Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
- 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
- Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
Poetry:
- Louise Glück, Averno
- H.L. Hix, Chromatic
- Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw
- Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem
- James McMichael, Capacity
Young People's Literature:
- M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party
- Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death
- Patricia McCormick, Sold
- Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival
- Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese
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