Morning Joe Exclusive announcement of 2013 National Book Award Finalists
NonfictionBook of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin Jill Lepore Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields Wendy Lower The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America George Packer The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832Alan Taylor Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief Lawrence Wright FictionThe Flamethrowers Rachel KushnerThe Lowland Jhumpa Lahiri The Good Lord Bird James McBride Bleeding Edge Thomas Pynchon Tenth of DecemberGeorge Saunders PoetryMetaphysical Dog Frank Bidart Stay, IllusionLucie Brock-Broido The Big SmokeAdrian Matejka Black ApertureMatt Rasmussen IncarnadineMary Szybist Young People’s Literature The True Blue Scouts of Sugar Man Swamp Kathi Appelt The Thing About LuckCynthia Kadohata Far Far AwayTom McNeal Picture Me GoneMeg RosoffBoxers and Saints Gene Luen Yang