The National Book Award finalists were announced today. The winners will be announced on November 19, 2008. The Fiction Award Finalists are:



  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (Riverhead)
  • Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba (Scribner)
  • Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Counattempt (Modern Library)
  • Marilynne Robinson, Home (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Salvatore Scibona, The End (Graywolf Press)



    You can see the entire list here.