Cast your vote for the National Book Award

The finalists were announced weeks ago. The winners will be announced in a matter of days. Time for you to cast your vote in support of your favorite book. This year's awards were already fraught with scandal when judges erroneously announced that Lauren Myracle's book, "Shine," was a finalist in the Young People's Literature category--it seems they meant to announce Franny Billingsley's "Chimed." Apparently, they kinda rhyme. Kinda.

Now that that's quieted down, there's some good news to announce, too: for the first time, you can watch the awards unfold live on a Webcast. John Lithgow (who has a memoir out this year) will host the event, and Mitchell Kaplan and John Ashbey will receive lifetime achievement awards.

Here, again, are the finalists, with links to Star Tribune reviews if you want to refresh your memory.

And then click here to take our polls for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and young people's literature.

FICTION

"The Sojourn," by Andrew Krivak, Bellevue Literary Press

"The Tiger's Wife," by Tea Obreht, Alfred A. Knopf

"Binocular Vision," by Edith Pearlman, Lookout Books

"Salvage the Bones," by Jesmyn Ward, Bloomsbury

NONFICTION

"The Convert: A Tale of Exile and Extremism," by Deborah Baker, Graywolf Press

"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution," by Mary Gabriel, Little, Brown & Co.

"Malcom X," by Manning Marable, Viking Press

"Radioactive," by Lauren Redniss, It Books

POETRY

"Head Off and Split," by Nikky Finney, TriQuarterly

"The Chameleon Couch," by Yusif Komunyakaa, Farrar Straus & Giroux

"Tonight No Poetry Will Serve," by Adrienne Rich, W.W. Norton

"Devotions," by Bruce Smith, University of Chicago Press

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE

"My Name is Not Easy," by Debby Dahl Edwardson

"Inside Out and Back Again," by Thanhha Lai

"Okay for Now," by Gary D. Schmidt