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Eat Your Heart Out, Pippa Middleton — These Ladies Just Won National Book Awards

3:45 pm, November 15th | by Carmen Shardae Jobson

All right, maybe we’re being a little unkind to poor Pippa Middleton. Her book, Celebrate has been having a very hard time after being trashed by critics and facing lackluster sales. In response, Amazon has cut the sale price of Middleton’s book in half. This is probably quite sad for her, and not entirely unexpected to us, but we thought it would also be a good time to take a look at some books written by women that didn’t get half of the publicity that Celebrate did. Check out the female nominees for this year’s National Book Awards, two of whom won in both the fiction and non-fiction categories.

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1.Iron Curtain: The Crushing Of Eastern Europe, Anne Applebaum

<em>Iron Curtain: The Crushing Of Eastern Europe</em>, Anne Applebaum

“Iron Curtain is an exceptionally important book which effectively challenges many of the myths of the origins of the Cold War. It is wise, perceptive, remarkably objective and brilliantly researched.” – Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Second World War

2.Heavenly Bodies, Cynthia Huntington

<em>Heavenly Bodies</em>, Cynthia Huntington

“This is a poetry of woundedness and defiance. Heavenly Bodies has a stark integrity in its refusals to beguile or comfort; no one could call it uplifting. Yet there is something bracing, even encouraging, in the hungry survival of this sister of Sylvia Plath and in her self-insistence: I do not give up my strangeness for anyone.” — Mark Halliday

3.Out Of Reach, Carrie Arcos

<em>Out Of Reach</em>, Carrie Arcos

"Ellen Hopkins fans will find another look at methamphetamine addiction in this quick, realistic debut. " - Kirkus

4.Behind The Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo (Winner, Non-Fiction)

<em>Behind The Beautiful Forevers</em>, Katherine Boo (Winner, Non-Fiction)

“A jaw-dropping achievement, an instant classic of narrative nonfiction…With a cinematic intensity…Boo transcends and subverts every cliché, cynical or earnest, that we harbor about Indian destitution and gazes directly into the hearts, hopes, and human promise of vibrant people whom you’ll not soon forget.” — Elle

5.Meme, Susan Wheeler

<em>Meme</em>, Susan Wheeler

"Meme is a haunted work. We are ushered in by the disembodied voice of a mother figure, scolding and teasing in the time-stamped slang of past decades. The anachronism is both funny and terribly sad. 'Don't come in here all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed,' the voice says. And it turns out that's fair warning. This cracked Virgil leads us into a consciously Dantean underworld ('Had you entered the thicket in darkness / . . . Had you been mid-life, not in haze but in crisis?'). Wheeler has created a total (and to me terrifying) linguistic environment in which hell is the introjected voices of other people, the hungry ghosts of our recent past."— Rae Armantrout, author, Money Shot

6.Never Fall Down, Patricia McCormick

<em>Never Fall Down</em>, Patricia McCormick

“Arn Chorn Pond is a fast-talking dynamo with endless energy and zest for life. In Never Fall Down, Patricia McCormick captures brilliantly the man, his heart, and his passion to make Cambodia and our world a better place for all. Arn’s against-all-odds survival story and McCormick’s crisp prose gripped me from the first page to the very end.” - Loung Ung, bestelling author of First They Killed My Father, and Lucky Child

7.The Round House, Louise Erdrich (Winner, Fiction)

<em>The Round House</em>, Louise Erdrich (Winner, Fiction)

“Poignant and surprisingly funny, it’s the acclaimed writer’s best book yet.” - O, the Oprah Magazine, "Our Favorite Reads of 2012"

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There. Don't those all sound about 10,000 times cooler than Pippa's thoughts on party planning?

TAGS: National Book Awards | pippa middleton

http://twitter.com/CuriousArtemis Bridget

Maybe a summary of each book so I know what it’s about? The critical blurb does nothing for me.

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