Last Monday, the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award finalists were announced in every category. The selection this year reflects the dynamism and intensity of 2017, a remarkable year in literature.
We're lucky to have Lori Feathers, a member of the National Book Critics Circle, as our adult book buyer! Click here to listen to Lori talk on Interabang Podcast about the experience of selecting this year's finalists.
You can find all of this year's NBCC Award finalists in the store or online by clicking on their titles below!
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
NONFICTION:
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
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
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
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 and Maja Teref
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
JOHN LEONARD PRIZE
HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES by Carmen Maria Machado
IVAN SANDROF LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
John McPhee