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Betting on Books: The NBAs

-- Publishers Weekly, 10/29/2007

Come on, admit it, just as seeing what everyone’s wearing is the best part about the Oscars, the best part about book prizes is speculating on who will win. We do it at PW all the time; now we’re asking you to get in on the game. Take our poll and weigh in on whom you expect to win the National Book Award in each of the categories this year. We'll keep you updated on how your picks compare with those of your colleagues, and let you know who we at PW think will go home winners on Nov. 14. Voters who correctly predict all the winners will be entered in a drawing for a free subscription to PW.

Who will win the 2007 National Book Awards?

Fiction

 Mischa Berlinski (Fieldwork, FSG)
 Lydia Davis (Varieties of Disturbance, FSG)
 Joshua Ferris (Then We Came to the End, Little, Brown)
 Denis Johnson (Tree of Smoke, FSG)
 Jim Shepard (Like You’d Understand, Anyway, Knopf)

Nonfiction

 Edwidge Danticat (Brother, I’m Dying, Knopf)
 Christopher Hitchens (God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Twelve)
 Woody Holton (Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution, Hill and Wang)
 Arnold Rampersad (Ralph Ellison: A Biography, Knopf)
 Tim Weiner (Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Doubleday)

Poetry

 Linda Gregerson (Magnetic North, Houghton Mifflin)
 Robert Hass (Time and Materials, Ecco)
 David Kirby (The House on Boulevard St., LSU)
 Stanley Plumly (Old Heart, Norton)
 Ellen Bryant Voigt (Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006, Norton)

Young People’s Literature

 Sherman Alexie (The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Little, Brown)
 Kathleen Duey (Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic, Book One, Atheneum books for Young Readers)
 M. Sindy Felin (Touching Snow, Atheneum Books for Young Readers)
 Brian Selznick (The Invention of Hugo Cabret, Scholastic)
 Sara Zarr (Story of a Girl, Little, Brown)

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