Finalists, ranked by personal preference:
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
Patricia McCormick, Never Fall Down
Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Eliot Schrefer, Endangered
Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
William Alexander, Goblin Secrets
Illusions fall like the husk of a fruit, one after another, and the fruit is experience. - Narrator, Sylvie
Je suis méchant.
Je suis méchant.
Reviews of the 2012 National Book Award finalists (Poetry, YA, Non-Fiction, Fiction)
12/11/2012 08:39:13 PM
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Young People's Literature
12/11/2012 08:58:44 PM
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Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build – and Steal – the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
12/11/2012 09:07:32 PM
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Sounds very interesting. I may give it a go
18/11/2012 11:19:19 AM
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It's a good primer read, but I suspect there are more in-depth studies of the Manhattan Project
18/11/2012 08:44:09 PM
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Non-Fiction
12/11/2012 09:16:35 PM
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Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
12/11/2012 09:23:30 PM
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Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
12/11/2012 09:27:07 PM
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Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1945-1956
12/11/2012 09:29:59 PM
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Fiction
12/11/2012 09:34:43 PM
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Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
12/11/2012 09:37:02 PM
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I like him, and I want to read this. *NM*
15/11/2012 04:17:18 PM
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I've read all but one of his novels and this one is near the bottom in terms of interest/quality
18/11/2012 08:45:17 PM
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Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
13/11/2012 07:45:53 AM
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I loved it.
13/11/2012 05:16:13 PM
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I got to meet Fountain last month in Nashville at the Southern Festival of Books
13/11/2012 10:56:43 PM
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Junot Díaz, This is How You Lose Her
14/11/2012 01:47:31 PM
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