Today the National Book Critics Circle announced its finalists for the 2012 publishing year (click here [1]for their release). The winners will be announced on February 28:
Fiction
- HHhH, by Laurent Binet, tr. from the French by Sam Taylor
- Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain
- The Orphan Master’s Son, by Adam Johnson
- Magnificence, by Lydia Millet
- NW, by Zadie Smith
Nonfiction
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo
- Private Empires: ExxonMobil and American Power, by Steve Coll
- Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story, by Jim Holt
- Spilover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen
- Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity, by Andrew Solomon
Poetry
- Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations, by David Ferry
- On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, by Lucia Perillo
- Fragile Acts, by Allan Peterson
- Landscape, or A Guide for Boys, by D.A. Powell
- Olives, by A.E. Stallings
Autobiography
- The Distance Between Us, by Reyna Grande
- My Poets, by Maureen N. McLane
- House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East, by Anthony Shadid
- Swimming Studies, by Leanne Shapton
- In the House of the Interpreter, by Ngügï wa Thiong’o
Biography
- The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by Robert A. Caro
- All We Know: Three Lives, by Lisa Cohen
- Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, by Michael Gorra
- Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography, by Lisa Jarnot
- The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, by Tom Reiss
Criticism
- Reinventing Bach, by Paul Elie
- Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture, by Daneil Mendelsohn
- Madness, Rack, and Honey, by Mary Ruefle
- Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights, by Marina Warner
- The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness, by Kevin Young
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