National Book Awards: 2007 Nominees

The nominees for the 2007 National Book Awards were announced in four categories on October 10. The winners will be named November 14. For more award winners, see our list of previous NBA winners and nominees and visit our Award Winners page.

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Fieldwork: A Novel
Mischa Berlinski 		Avg. Customer Review:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 6, 2007
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A fictional version of the author serves as the narrator of Berlinski's uneven first novel, a thriller set in Thailand. Mischa Berlinski, a reporter who's moved to northern Thailand to be with his schoolteacher girlfriend, Rachel, hears from his friend ... Read more
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Varieties of Disturbance: Stories
Lydia Davis 		Avg. Customer Review:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
May 15, 2007
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Starred Review. Davis's spare, always surprising short fiction was most recently collected in Samuel Johnson Is Indignant. In this introspective, more sober culling, Davis touches on favorite themes (mothers, dogs, flies and husbands) and encapsulates, as in "Insomnia," everyday life's absurdist binds: "My body aches soIt must be ... Read more
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Then We Came to the End: A Novel
Joshua Ferris 		Avg. Customer Review:

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Little, Brown and Company
March 1, 2007
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Starred Review. In this wildly funny debut from former ad man Ferris, a group of copywriters and designers at a Chicago ad agency face layoffs at the end of the '90s boom. Indignation rises over the rightful owner of a particularly coveted chair ("We felt ... Read more
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Tree of Smoke: A Novel
Denis Johnson 		Avg. Customer Review:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
September 4, 2007
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If this novel, Johnson's first in nearly a decade, is-as the promo copy says-about Skip Sands, it's also about his uncle, a legendary CIA operative; Kathy Jones, a widowed, saintly Canadian nurse; Trung, a North Vietnamese spy; and the Houston brothers, Bi... Read more
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Like You'd Understand, Anyway: Stories
Jim Shepard 		Avg. Customer Review:

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Knopf
September 25, 2007
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Following the novel Project X and Love and Hydrogen: New and Selected Stories, Shepard's new collection takes in landscapes as diverse as 1986 Chernobyl in "The Zero Meter Diving Team," to 1840s down under in "The First South Central Australian Expedition.... Read more


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