2005 NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS

2005 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD for FICTION, NONFICTION and POETRY

LOOKS like it is book awards season again, one award after another. The shortlists for the 2005 National Book Award for Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry is out, and they include the following:

FICTION
The March (2005) / E.L. Doctorow
Veronica (2005) / Mary Gaitskill
Trance (2005) / Christopher Sorrentino
Holy Skirts (2005) / René Steinke
Europe Central (2005) / William T. Vollmann

POETRY
Where Shall I Wander: New Poems (2005) / John Ashbery
Star Dust (2005) / Frank Bidart
Habitat: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2005 (2005) / Brendan Galvin
Migration: New and Selected Poems (2005) / W.S. Merwin
The Moment’s Equation (2005) / Vern Rutsala

NONFICTION
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion (2005) / Alan Burdick
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius (2005) / Leo Damrosch
The Year of Magical Thinking (2005) / Joan Didion
102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive Inside the Twin Towers (2005) / Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire’s Slaves (2005) / Adam Hochschild

Winners will be announced in New York on November 16, 2005