2013 National Book Award Longlists - The Mookse and the Gripes

This is the first year the National Book Award is giving us a longlist of titles for each category. This past week, they’ve been announcing one category per day, culminating in today’s fiction longlist.

Fiction:

Pacific, by Tom Drury
The End of the Point, by Elizabeth Graver
The Flamethrowers, by Rachel Kushner
The Lowland, by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra
The Good Lord Bird, by James McBride
Someone, by Alice McDermott
Bleeding Edge, by Thomas Pynchon
Tenth of December, by George Saunders
Fools, by Joan Silber

Nonfiction:

Finding Florida: The True Story of the Sunshine State, by T.D. Allman
Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami, by Gretel Ehrlich
The Wolf and the Watchman: A Father, a Son, and the CIA, by Scott C. Johnson
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
Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865, by James Oakes
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America, by George Packer
The Internal Enemy: Slavery and the War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor
Duke: A Life of Duke Elington, by Terry Teachout
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, & the Prison of Belief, by Lawrence Wright

Poetry:

Metaphysical Dog, by Frank Bidart
Bury My Clothes, by Roger Bonair-Agard
Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
So Recently Rent a World, New and Selected Poems: 1968-2012, by Andrei Codrescu
Seasonal Works with Letters on a Fire, by Brenda Hillman
The Big Smoke, by Adrian Matejka
American Amnesiac, by Diane Raptosh
Black Aperture, by Matt Rasmussen
Transfer of Qualities, by Martha Ronk
Incarnadine: Poems, by Mary Szybist