Thursday, August 04, 2005
08:31 PM

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The Quill Awards (you care; you just don't know you care) has listed the top five nominees for each of their 19 categories, and the awards ceremony will be televised on October 22. So how'd they do?

General Fiction

A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth

Zorro by Isabel Allende

Graphic Novel

American Splendor by Harvey Pekar

Bone by Jeff Smith

In the Shadow of No Towers by Art Spiegelman

Marvel 1602 Volume 1 by Neil Gaiman, Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove

Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi

Poetry

180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day edited by Billy Collins

Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath

Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell

Blue Iris by Mary Oliver

Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes

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(Via blog.)