The National Book Critics Circle have announced their “Good Reads” selections for the Spring. The list is developed by polling the members of the NBCC and tallying the results. (I am a member, and here’s how I voted.) An interesting side note: As imperiled as book reviewing is supposed to be, membership in the NBCC has increased almost 50% over last year. What to make of that? Anyway, here are the Fiction and Nonfiction selections

FICTION

1. Richard Price, LUSH LIFE
2. Jhumpa Lahiri, UNACCUSTOMED EARTH
3. Steven Millhauser, DANGEROUS LAUGHTER,
*4. Charles Baxter, THE SOUL THIEF
*4. Peter Carey, HIS ILLEGAL SELF
*4. J. M. Coetzee, DIARY OF A BAD YEAR
*4. James Collins, BEGINNNER’S GREEK
*4. Brian Hall, FALL OF FROST
*4. Roxana Robinson, COST
*4. Owen Sheers, RESISTANCE
NONFICTION

1. Nicholson Baker, HUMAN SMOKE
2. Drew Gilpin Faust, THIS REPUBLIC OF SUFFERING
3. Mark Harris, PICTURES AT THE REVOLUTION
4. Honor Moore, THE BISHOP’S DAUGHTER
5. Susan Jacoby, THE AGE OF AMERICAN UNREASON