The National Book Award Finalists have been announced.

Fiction

• Mark Z. Danielewski, Only Revolutions (Pantheon)
• Ken Kalfus, A Disorder Peculiar to the Country (Ecco/HarperCollins)
• Richard Powers, The Echo Maker (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Dana Spiotta, Eat the Document (Scribner/Simon & Schuster)
• Jess Walter, The Zero (Judith Regan Books/HarperCollins)

Non-Fiction

• Taylor Branch, At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (Simon & Schuster)
• Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Timothy Egan, The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl (Houghton Mifflin)
• Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present (HarperCollins)
• Lawrence Wright, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Alfred A. Knopf)

Poetry

• Louise Glück, Averno (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• H.L. Hix, Chromatic (Etruscan Press)
• Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw (Copper Canyon Press)
• Nathaniel Mackey, Splay Anthem (New Directions)
• James McMichael, Capacity (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Young People’s Literature

• M.T. Anderson, The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Vol. 1: The Pox Party (Candlewick Press)
• Martine Leavitt, Keturah and Lord Death (Front Street Books/Boyds Mills Press)
• Patricia McCormick, Sold (Hyperion Books for Children)
• Nancy Werlin, The Rules of Survival (Dial/Penguin)
• Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese (First Second/Roaring Brook Press/Holtzbrinck)