National Book Award: Shortlist

Fiction
1. The Lazarus Project (Penguin, 2008) / Aleksandar Hemon
2. Telex from Cuba (Simon and Schuster, 2008) / Rachel Kushner
3. Shadow Country (Random House, 2008) / Peter Matthiessen
4. Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2008) / Marilynne Robinson
5. The End (Graywolf Press, 2008) / Salvatore Scibona

Poetry
1. Watching the Spring Festival (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008) / Frank Bidart
2. Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008) / Mark Doty
3. Creatures of a Day (Louisiana State University Press, 2008) / Reginald Gibbons
4. Without Saying (Turtle Point Press, 2008) / Richard Howard
5. Blood Dazzler (Consortium, 2008) / Patricia Smith

The winners will be announced on November 19, 2008 in New York