The Free Library is proud to carry all the titles of this year's nominees and winners of the National Book Awards :

The National Book Award for Fiction: The Echo Maker , Richard Powers

Nominees: Mark Z. Danielewski for Only Revolutions , Ken Kalfus for A Disorder Peculiar to the Country , Dana Spiotta for Eat the Document , and Jess Walter for The Zero .

The National Book Award for Non-fiction: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl , Timothy Egan

Nominees: Taylor Branch for At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 , Rajiv Chandrasekaran for Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone , Peter Hessler for Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China’s Past and Present , and Lawrence Wright for The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 .