On Wednesday, October 10, 2012, the finalists were announced.  The following are the fiction and nonfiction finalists:

FICTION FINALISTS:

Junot Díaz,This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group USA, Inc.)

Dave Eggers,A Hologram for the King (McSweeney's Books)

Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers)

Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown and Company)

NONFICTION FINALISTS:

Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 (Doubleday)

Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Random House)

Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 (Knopf)

Domingo Martinez, The Boy Kings of Texas (Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press)

Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

For more 2012 finalists, visit the National Book Awards website:

http://www.nationalbook.org/nba2012.html#.UHYbYq5AVTY