2007 National Book Awards Finalists
FICTION
Mischa Berlinski, “Fieldwork” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Lydia Davis, “Varieties of Disturbance” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Joshua Ferris, “Then We Came to the End”
(Little, Brown & Company)
Jim Shepard, “Like You'd Understand, Anyway” (Alfred A. Knopf)
NONFICTION
Edwidge Danticat, “Brother, I’m Dying” (Alfred A. Knopf)
Christopher Hitchens, “God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything” (Twelve/Hachette Book Group USA)
Woody Holton, “Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution” (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Arnold Rampersad, “Ralph Ellison: A Biography” (Alfred A. Knopf)
POETRY
Linda Gregerson, “Magnetic North” (Houghton Mifflin Company)
David Kirby, “The House on Boulevard St.” (Louisiana State University Press)
Stanley Plumly, “Old Heart” (W.W. Norton & Company)
Ellen Bryant Voigt, “Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006”
(W.W. Norton & Company)
YOUNG PEOPLE’S LITERATURE
Kathleen Duey, “Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One”
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
M. Sindy Felin, “Touching Snow” (Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
Brian Selznick, “The Invention of Hugo Cabret” (Scholastic Press)
Sara Zarr, “Story of a Girl” (Little, Brown & Company)
National Book Awards
