They’ve announced this year’s winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The winners below in red; the other finalists in light gray.

Fiction

• Lila, by Marilynne Robinson (my review here)
• An Unnecessary Woman, by Rabih Alameddine
• A Brief History of Seven Killings, by Marlon James
• Euphoria, by Lily King
• On Such a Full Sea, by Chang-rae Lee

Poetry

• Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
• Prelude to Bruise, by Saeed Jones
• The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon, by Willie Perdomo
• Once in the West, by Christian Wiman
• Abide, by Jake Adam York

Nonfiction

• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation, by David Brion Davis
• The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book, by Peter Finn and Petra Couvee
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Capital and the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty (translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer
• Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mind, and the Miracle That Set Them Free, by Hector Tobar

Autobiography

• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, by Roz Chast
• The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait, by Blake Bailey
• The Other Side, by Lacy M. Johnson
• Little Failure, by Gary Shteyngart
• There Was and There Was Not, by Meline Toumani

Biography

• Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, by John Lahr
• William Wells Brown: An African American Life, by Ezra Greenspan
• Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson, by S.C. Gwynne
• “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions, Ian S. MacNiven
• The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography, by Miriam Pawel

Criticism

• The Essential Ellen Willis, by Ellen Willis
• On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss
• Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty, by Vikram Chandra
• Citizen: An American Lyric, by Claudia Rankine
• What Would Lynne Tillman Do?, by Lynne Tillman

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