Salman Rushdie, Percival Everett and Miranda July are National Book Award finalists

FILE - Percival Everett appears at the 38th American Film Festival in Deauville, Normandy, France on Sept. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Percival Everett's “James,†his acclaimed retelling of Mark Twain's “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,†is a fiction nominee for the National Book Awards. The long list of 10 also includes Rachel Kushner's innovative thriller, “Creation Lake,†and novelist-filmmaker Miranda July's exploration of middle age, “All Fours.â€

released the fiction list Friday, capping a week of announcements in five competitive categories — fiction, Judges will narrow the lists to five on Oct. 1, and winners will be announced Nov. 20 during a dinner ceremony in Manhattan, when honorary prizes will be presented to and publisher-activist Paul Coates.

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