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The National Book Critics Circle Award finalists for the publishing year 2017 — deep breath — have been announced!
Fiction:
- Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid ¦ Amazon
- The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott ¦ Amazon
- The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, by Arundhati Roy ¦ Amazon
- Improvement, by Joan Silber ¦ Amazon
- Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward ¦ Amazon
Nonfiction:
- Gulf: The Making of An American Sea, by Jack Davis ¦ Amazon
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, by Frances FitzGerald ¦ Amazon
- The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, by Masha Gressen ¦ Amazon
- Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, by Kapka Kassabova ¦ Amazon
- A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, by Adam Rutherford ¦ Amazon
Biography:
- Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, by Caroline Frasier ¦ Amazon
- The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, by Edmund Gordon ¦ Amazon
- The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek, by Howard Markel ¦ Amazon
- Gorbachev: His Life and Times, by William Taubman ¦ Amazon
- Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, by Kenneth Whyte ¦ Amazon
Autobiography:
- The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, by Thi Bui ¦ Amazon
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay ¦ Amazon
- Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery, by Henry Marsh ¦ Amazon
- The Girl from the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya and translated from the Russian by Anna Summers ¦ Amazon
- Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China, by Xioulu Guo ¦ Amazon
Poetry:
- Fourth Person Singular, by Nuar Alsadir ¦ Amazon
- Earthling, by James Longenbach ¦ Amazon
- Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier ¦ Amazon
- The Darkness of Snow, by Frank Ormsby ¦ Amazon
- Directions for Use, by Ana Ristovic and translated from the Serbian by Steven Teref and Maja Teref ¦ Amazon
Criticism:
- You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks & Other Mixed Messages, by Carina Chocano ¦ Amazon
- The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, by Edwidge Danticat ¦ Amazon
- Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and History, by Camille Dungy ¦ Amazon
- Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, by Valeria Luiselli ¦ Amazon
- Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News, by Kevin Young ¦ Amazon
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Charles Finch
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award: John McPhee
John Leonard First Book Prize: Her Body and Other Parties, by Carmen Maria Machado
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