Vote for Your Favorite

As previously mentioned, the National Book Foundation is awarding the Best of the National Book Awards Fiction Prize this year in honor of the 60th anniversary of the National Book Awards. 140 writers chose the following 6 books for the shortlist:

• The Stories of John Cheever
• Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison
• The Collected Stories of William Faulkner
• The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor
• Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
• The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty

This is a rather bizarre shortlist dominated by short story collections. The winner, which will be chosen by public vote, will be announced on November 18th. The Complete Stories of Flannery O'Connor is currently in the lead. Exercise your right to vote here.