The National Book Critics Circle announced the nominees for their annual awards on Monday afternoon. The winners will be named March 17. As usual, the nominees overlap in many planes with our aggregated list of the Absolutely Best of the Best Books of 2015 — which means the biggest surprise is that Booker- and NBA-candidate Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is not up for the NBCC fiction award. The complete nominees are: Fiction The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (FSG) Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House) The Tsar of Love and […]
