Past winners have included such heavyweights as Toni Morrison, Wallace Stegner, Joyce Carol Oates, Cormac McCarthy, and Norman Maclean (you can see a complete list of past winners here).
This year's finallists include a novel about a junior-high school teacher and her son's wedding (Olive Kittredge by Elizabeth Strout), a memoir that examines the development of rural Montana (Why I Came West by Rick Bass), and a work of middle-eastern war correspondence (The Forever War by Dexter Filkins). Nominated authors include both a first-time novelist (M. Glenn Taylor) and a former pulitzer prize winner (Marilynne Robinson).Check out a complete list of finalists here, and if you see a book you'd like an excuse to read, let us know, and we'll try to feature it at WWADY.
(NOTE: We begin reading So Brave, Young, and Handsome in 6 days. Get your copy soon.)
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