Shortlist, ranked by personal preference:
Susan Wheeler, Meme
Tim Seibles, Fast Animals
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
David Ferry, Bewilderment
Susan Wheeler, Meme
Tim Seibles, Fast Animals
Alan Shapiro, Night of the Republic
Cynthia Huntington, Heavenly Bodies
David Ferry, Bewilderment
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.

Reviews of the 2012 National Book Award finalists (Poetry, YA, Non-Fiction, Fiction)
12/11/2012 08:39:13 PM
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Poetry
12/11/2012 08:40:31 PM
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Young People's Literature
12/11/2012 08:58:44 PM
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Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
12/11/2012 09:07:32 PM
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Sounds very interesting. I may give it a go
18/11/2012 11:19:19 AM
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It's a good primer read, but I suspect there are more in-depth studies of the Manhattan Project
18/11/2012 08:44:09 PM
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Non-Fiction
12/11/2012 09:16:35 PM
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Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
12/11/2012 09:23:30 PM
- 871 Views
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
12/11/2012 09:27:07 PM
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Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956
12/11/2012 09:29:59 PM
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Fiction
12/11/2012 09:34:43 PM
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Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
12/11/2012 09:37:02 PM
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I like him, and I want to read this. *NM*
15/11/2012 04:17:18 PM
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I've read all but one of his novels and this one is near the bottom in terms of interest/quality
18/11/2012 08:45:17 PM
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Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
13/11/2012 07:45:53 AM
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I loved it.
13/11/2012 05:16:13 PM
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I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books
13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
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Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her
14/11/2012 01:47:31 PM
- 799 Views