The fiction nominees were: Bonnie Jo Campbell for “American Salvage”; Colum McCann, for “Let the Great World Spin”; Daniyal Mueenuddin for “In Other Rooms, Other Wonders”; Jayne Anne Phillips for “Lark and Termite”; and Marcel Theroux for “Far North.”
Nominees in the nonfiction category were: David M. Carroll for “Following the Water: A Hydromancer’s Notebook”; Sean B. Carroll for “Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species”; Greg Grandin for “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City”; Adrienne Mayor for “The Poison King: The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome’s Deadliest Enemy”; and T. J. Stiles for “The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.”
The amazing thing is, I haven’t heard of any of these ten books before now.
I predict it’ll be Column McCann – but that’s just cause I think the book is cool and haven’t heard of the others either (except for Mueenuddin’s).
I read “Let the great world spin”. It is a mind-blowingly good novel.