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 2018:

Fiction

• Milkman by Anna Burns
• Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau (translated by Linda Coverdale)
• The Largesse of the Sea Maiden by Denis Johnson
• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner
• The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

Non-fiction

• The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú
• Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll
• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt
• We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights by Adam Winkler
• God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State by Lawrence Wright

Autobiography

• The Day That Went Missing: A Family’s Story by Richard Beard
• All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
• What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood by Rigoberto Gonzalez
• Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home by Nora Krug
• Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over by Nell Painter
• Educated by Tara Westover

Biography

• Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos
• Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown
• Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang
• The Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern Century by Mark Lamster
• The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy

Criticism

• Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 by Robert Christgau
• Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics by Stephen Greenblatt
• To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight by Terrance Hayes
• The Reckonings by Lacy M. Johnson
• Feel Free by Zadie Smith

Poetry

• American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin by Terrance Hayes
• The Carrying by Ada Limón
• Holy Moly Carry Me by Erika Meitner
• Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl by Diane Seuss
• Asymmetry by Adam Zagajewski (translated by Clare Cavanagh)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

Maureen Corrigan

John Leonard Prize (for best debut novel)

Tommy Orange for There There

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

Arte Público Press

The 2018 winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards will be announced on 14 March. Find out more about the NBCC here.