NBCC Awards Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle have announced the finalists for their annual book awards. I’m always interested in this list because (a) I’m a member of the NBCC (but my nominations rarely make the cut), and (b) the list always includes books I’m not remotely familiar with. Here are the finalists in Fiction and Nonfiction:
Fiction
- Open City by Teju Cole
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (my review)
- The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
- Binocular Vision by Edith Pearlman
- Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
Nonfiction
- A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
- The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
- To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
- Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War by Maya Jasanoff
- Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan
Other categories include: biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
For an idea of what my voting looked like, see my year-end favorites. Check out the NBCC website for the full list of finalists.
January 23, 2012 8:48 am 
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