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
668 Views
Young People's Literature
- 12/11/2012 08:58:44 PM
703 Views
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- 12/11/2012 09:07:32 PM
899 Views
Sounds very interesting. I may give it a go
- 18/11/2012 11:19:19 AM
968 Views
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
873 Views
Non-Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:16:35 PM
805 Views
Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- 12/11/2012 09:23:30 PM
922 Views
Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- 12/11/2012 09:27:07 PM
755 Views
Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956
- 12/11/2012 09:29:59 PM
832 Views
Fiction
- 12/11/2012 09:34:43 PM
636 Views
Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
- 12/11/2012 09:37:02 PM
814 Views
I like him, and I want to read this. *NM*
- 15/11/2012 04:17:18 PM
439 Views
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
966 Views
Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- 13/11/2012 07:45:53 AM
849 Views
I loved it.
- 13/11/2012 05:16:13 PM
730 Views
I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books
- 13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
853 Views
Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her
- 14/11/2012 01:47:31 PM
841 Views
