National Book Awards ask public to choose all-time best

Public gets to vote for book award

NEW YORK — The National Book Awards would like your vote.

Organizers of the prestigious literary prize are asking the public to choose the best fiction winner in the awards’ 60-year history.

The six finalists, announced Monday by the National Book Foundation, are: “The Stories of John Cheever,” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” William Faulkner’s “Collected Stories,” ”The Complete Stories” of Flannery O’Connor, Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity Rainbow” and “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty.”

Starting Monday, through Oct. 21, votes can be cast through the Web site www.nbafictionpoll.org. The winner will be announced Nov. 18.