Someone leaked the National Book Award long list to Huffington Post yesterday evening, and the New York Times published it, and so I did too, on Facebook, but here's the list again, this time with links to the Star Tribune reviews, where available.
And what a strong and interesting list! A couple of story collections, a debut novel (written by a rock star), a novel set in the future, a novel set in the past, the last in a trilogy. And unlike the nonfiction list, which had only one woman, this one is evenly divided.
The short list will be released Oct. 15 and the winner will be announced in November. Long lists for poetry, young people's literature, and nonfiction were released earlier this week.
Here goes:
Rabih Alameddine, 'An Unnecessary Woman,' Grove Press
Molly Antopol, 'The UnAmericans,' W.W. Norton & Company (short stories)
John Darnielle, 'Wolf in White Van,' Farrar, Straus and Giroux (debut novel)
Anthony Doerr, 'All the Light We Cannot See,' Scribner
Phil Klay, 'Redeployment,' The Penguin Press
Emily St. John Mandel, 'Station Eleven,' Alfred A. Knopf
Elizabeth McCracken, 'Thunderstruck & Other Stories,' The Dial Press
Richard Powers, 'Orfeo,' W.W. Norton & Company
Marilynne Robinson, 'Lila,' Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Strib review runs in October)
Jane Smiley, 'Some Luck,' Alfred A. Knopf (Strib review runs in October)
