Notice that A Little Life is one of the ones you have been recommending Lynette – I am currently reading – in the midst of many other books – Fates and Furies and liking it.

National Book Awards 2015

Finalists for Fiction

Karen E. Bender, Refund (Counterpoint Press)

Angela Flournoy, The Turner House(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies(Riverhead Books)

Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles(Random House)

Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life(Doubleday)

Finalists for Nonfiction

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau)

Sally Mann, Hold Still (Little, Brown)

Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus(Atria Books)

Carla Power, If the Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and a Journey to the Heart of the Quran (Henry Holt)

Tracy K. Smith, Ordinary Light, published by Alfred A. Knopf