National Book Awards 2014 shortlists announced

The National Book Foundation announced the shortlists for the 2014 National Book Awards on Wednesday. There are five finalists each in four categories: Fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young adult literature. The complete list is below.

The awards will be presented Nov. 19 at a New York gala hosted by Daniel Handler, a.k.a. Lemony Snicket.

Fiction:

Rabih Alameddine, “An Unnecessary Woman” (Grove Press/ Grove/Atlantic)

Anthony Doerr, “All the Light We Cannot See” (Scribner/ Simon & Schuster)

Phil Klay, “Redeployment” (The Penguin Press/ Penguin Group)

Emily St. John Mandel, “Station Eleven” (Alfred A. Knopf/ Random House)

Marilynne Robinson, “Lila” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Nonfiction:

Roz Chast, “Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?” (Bloomsbury)

Anand Gopal, “No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes” (Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co.)

John Lahr, “Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh” (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Evan Osnos, “Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Edward O. Wilson, “The Meaning of Human Existence” (Liveright Publishing Corp./ W.W. Norton & Co.)

Poetry:

Louise Glück, “Faithful and Virtuous Night” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Fanny Howe, “Second Childhood” (Graywolf Press)

Maureen N. McLane, “This Blue” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Fred Moten, “The Feel Trio” (Letter Machine Editions)

Claudia Rankine, “Citizen: An American Lyric” (Graywolf Press)

Young adult literature:

Eliot Schrefer, “Threatened” (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)

Steve Sheinkin, “The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights” (Roaring Brook Press/Macmillan Publishers)

John Corey Whaley, “Noggin” (Atheneum Books for Young Readers/Simon & Schuster)

Deborah Wiles, “Revolution: The Sixties Trilogy, Book Two” (Scholastic Press/Scholastic)

Jacqueline Woodson, “Brown Girl Dreaming” (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin Group)

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