Winners will be announced on Wednesday, November 18
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The finalists for the 2015 National Book Awards include two Pulitzer Prize winners, a two-time NBA finalist, the son of an African American publisher/printer and a 23-year-old female cartoonist nominated for her first solo graphic novel. Penguin Random House led all publishers with eight of its titles named finalists and there were only four finalists that did not come one of the Big 5 houses. presses.
Finalists for Fiction
Karen E. Bender, Refund (Counterpoint Press)
Angela Flournoy, The Turner House (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead Books)
Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles (Random House)
Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life (Doubleday)
Finalists for Nonfiction
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau)
Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown)
Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus (Atria Books)
Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Henry Holt)
Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light, published by Alfred A. Knopf
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More finalists at the source...
http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/b...announced.html