National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced
Posted by: Courtney Jones
The National Book Critics Circle Award finalists have been announced:
Fiction
A Visit From the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan
Freedom, by Jonathan Franzen
To the End of the Land, by David Grossman
Comedy in a Minor Key, by Hans Keilson
Skippy Dies, by Paul Murray
Nonfiction
Nothing to Envy, by Barbara Demick
Empire of the Summer Moon, by S.C. Gwynne
Apollo’s Angels, by Jennifer Homans
The Emperor of All Maladies, by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The Warmth of Other Suns, by Isabel Wilkerson
Autobiography
Half a Life, by Darin Strauss
Just Kids, by Patti Smith
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate, by Kai Bird
The Autobiography of an Execution, by David Dow
Hitch-22, by Christopher Hitchens
Hiroshima in the AM, by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Biography
How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, by Sarah Bakewell
The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography, by Selina Hastings
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History, by Yunte Huang
The Killing of Crazy Horse, by Thomas Powers
Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends, by Tom Segev
Poetry
One With Others, by C.D. Wright
Nox, by Anne Carson
The Eternal City, by Kathleen Graber
Lighthead, by Terrance Hayes
The Best of It, by Kay Ryan
Criticism
The Possessed, by Elif Batuman
The Professor and Other Writings, by Terry Castle
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West, by Clare Cavanagh
The Cruel Radience, by Susan Linfield
Vanishing Point, by Ander Monson
