Sentence examples for book nominees from inspiring English sources

Along with Moore's Thatcher book, nominees for this year's book category include Tory MP Jesse Norman's Edmund Burke, Simon Sebag Montefiore's new novel and former cabinet minister Alan Johnson's "childhood memoir".

The children's book nominees are debut writer and illustrator Dave Shelton Diana Hendryy, who won the Whitbread children's novel award in 1991; former set and costume designer Sally Gardner; and teen fiction writer Hayley Long.

Several big names didn't make the cut from the 10-book longlists to the shortlists, including debut young adult novelist Angie Thomas's bestselling The Hate U Give and past National Book nominee Jennifer Egan's latest, Manhattan Beach.

A6 World Briefing A5 ARTS E1-12 National Book Award Nominees The novelists Susan Sontag and Joyce Carol Oates and the historian Jacques Barzun are among the 20 finalists in categories that include fiction, nonfiction and poetry.

F1 Health & Fitness F7 ARTS E1-10 Book Critics' Nominees Rita Dove, poet laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995; J. M. Coetzee, the latest winner of the Booker Prize, and Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina's most famous writer, were nominated for National Book Critics Circle Awards.

That's because "Look at Me," one of the better choices on this year's eyebrow-raising list of National Book Award nominees, is populated by characters who are halfway in hiding.

The 2012 National Book Award Nominees were announced this morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe.

Then there's the author herself, a dark horse National Book Award nominee if ever there was one.

Colum McCann's "Let the Great World Spin" is the best-selling National Book Award nominee.

Prose is the author of 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, among them the novel "Blue Angel," a National Book Award nominee.

Mr. Walter wrote about the aftershocks of 9/11 in his novel "The Zero," a 2006 National Book Award nominee.