Voting Opens for Best of the National Book Awards Fiction

This week, the National Book Foundation opened voting to the public to choose the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction. The ballot includes six finalists, as chosen by writers associated with NBF, from a list of 77 past National Book Award Fiction winners.

The finalists for Best of the National Book Awards Fiction are:

• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (HMH)
• The Collected Stories of William Faulkner (Random House)
• The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor (FSG)
• Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon (Penguin)
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (Random House)
• The Stories of John Cheever (Random House)

The public is invited to cast their ballots between September 21 and October 21 via the Foundation's website, at www.nbafictionpoll.org.

The winner of the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction will be announced at the 60th National Book Awards Ceremony and Dinner at Cipriani New York on November 18. Voters will be entered in a drawing to win two tickets to the awards ceremony and a two-night stay at the Marriott Hotel Downtown, compliments of Marriott.

Banner ads, a downloadable poster, and other materials that booksellers can use to promote voting are available at www.nationalbook.org.