2013 National Book Awards

Each year the National Book Foundation presents awards to winners in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People’s Literature. The four winners for 2013 were announced Wednesday night at a ceremony in New York City. This year’s winners are:

Fiction Winner: The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

Fiction Finalists:
The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Bleeding Edge by Thomas Pynchon
Tenth of December by George Saunders

Non-Fiction Winner: The Unwinding: an inner history of the new America by George Packer

Non-Fiction Finalists:
Book of Ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill Lepore
Hitler's Furies: German women in the Nazi Killing Fields by Wendy Lower
The Internal Enemy: slavery and war in Virginia, 1772-1832 by Alan Taylor
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the prison of belief by Lawrence Wright

Poetry Winner: Incarnadine by Mary Szybist

Poetry Finalists:
Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart
Stay, Illusion by Lucie Brock-Broido
The Big Smoke by Adrian Matejka
Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen

Young People's Literature Winner: The Thing About Luck by Cynthia Kadohata

Young People's Literature Finalists:
The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp by Kathi Appelt
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal
Picture Me Gone by Meg Rosoff
Boxers & Saints by Gene Luen Yang