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