National Book Awards

National Book Awards were announced yesterday.

The winners are:

• Fiction: Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen (Click here to read an excerpt)
• Non-fiction: The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family by Annette Gordon-Reed
• Poetry: Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems by Mark Doty
• Young People's Literature: What I Saw and How I Lied by Judy Blundell

I'd like to read some of these. But I feel like I'm having trouble getting through my current list of books to read.