Fiction Finalists:

                                               
LostMemoryofSkin
By Russell Banks
Published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

                                               
TheForgottenWaltz
By Anne Enright
Published by W. W. Norton & Company

                                               
Swamplandia!
By Karen Russell
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.

Nonfiction Finalists:

                                               
TheInformation: AHistory, ATheory, AFlood
By James Gleick
Published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

                                               
MalcolmX: ALifeofReinvention
By Manning Marable
Published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)

                                               
CatherinetheGreat: PortraitofaWoman
By Robert Massie
Published by Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group