The finalists for this year’s 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 2019:
Fiction
- Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
- Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg
- The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
- Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Non-fiction
- Manual for Survival by Kate Brown
- The Buried by Peter Hessler
- Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
- Out of the Shadows by Walt Odets
- No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder
Autobiography
- Five Days Gone by Laura Cumming
- Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
- Sounds Like Titanic by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman
- Good Talk by Mira Jacob
- Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Biography
- Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King
- The Queen by Josh Levin
- L.E.L. by Lucasta Miller
- Our Man by George Packer
- A Woman of No Importance by Sonia Purnell
Criticism
- Go Ahead in the Rain by Hanif Abdurraqib
- Essays One by Lydia Davis
- Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments by Saidiya Hartman
- Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Peter Schjeldahl
- Axiomatic by Maria Tumarkin
Poetry
- The Tradition by Jericho Brown
- Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
- Magical Negro by Morgan Parker
- Dunce by Mary Ruefle
- Doomstead Days by Brian Teare
Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing
Katy Waldman
John Leonard Prize (for best debut novel)
Naomi Shahib Nye
Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
