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Cormac McCarthy's amazing novel "The Road" is among the five finalists for the 2007 National Book Critics' Circle Award. The nominees are:

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun (Knopf)
• Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Grove/Atlantic)
• Dave Eggers, What is the What (McSweeney's)
• Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land (Knopf)
• Cormac McCarthy, The Road (Knopf)

You can view a list of past winners here.