Young People's Literature
What I Saw and How I Lied~ Judy Blundell
Poetry
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems~ Mark Doty 
Nonfiction
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family~ Annette Gordon-Reed
Fiction
Shadow Country~ Peter Matthiessen
ETA:Images found on Barnes & Noble and on Random House
This is only a partial list, full list available at site in the link in the post title. I've read Laurie Halse Anderson and was quite impressed. The finalists will announced in mid November.
Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
Rachel Kushner, Telex from Cuba
Peter Matthiessen, Shadow Country
Marilynne Robinson, Home
Salvatore Scibona, The End
Young Adult Literature
Laurie Halse Anderson, Chains
Kathi Appelt, The Underneath
Judy Blundell, What I Saw and How I Lied
E. Lockhart, The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
Tim Tharp, The Spectacular Now
