It’s hard enough to find time to bake cookies for Santa this time of year, let alone brush up on all the best-selling titles at the bookstore to find the perfect gift for your favorite bibliophile. Fortunately, the National Book Foundation has done the work for you in awarding its annual National Book Awards. This year’s five fiction judges — all decorated members of the American literary community, some former National Book Award finalists themselves — read 408 books in order to select the very best of 2013. James McBride won for “The Good Lord Bird” (Riverhead Books, $18), the riveting tale of a young slave’s struggle to stay alive in the 1850s. And the four remaining finalists — Rachel Kushner for “The Flamethrowers” (Scribner, $21), Jhumpa Lahiri for “The Lowland” (Alfred A. Knopf, $15), Thomas Pynchon for “Bleeding Edge” (The Penguin Press, $18) and George Saunders for “Tenth of December” (Random House, $17) — help round out the shortlist of inarguably good reads released this year. Give one or, for a truly special friend, all five.
Now go to http://www.nationalbook.org/ to view a slideshow from the event and see the book covers.
Also:
View Webcast of 2013 National Book Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner
- To view coverage from the 2013 National Book Award on Twitter use #nbawards.
View Video of Finalists and Winners reading from their honored books now available.
Interviews with the 2013 NBA Finalists available here
(from http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/)
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