The National Book Critics Circle announced its shortlists, with the winners to be named on March 26. Frances FitzGerald will receive the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; Rhoda Feng will receive the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing; and Elizabeth Taylor will receive the NBCC Service Award.
Autobiography
Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)
Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner)
Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin Press)
Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco)
A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury)
Biography
Love, Queenie, by Mayukh Sen (Norton)
A Perfect Turmoil, by Alex Green (Bellevue Literary Press)
Pride and Pleasure, by Amanda Vaill (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Queen Mother, by Ashley D. Farmer (Pantheon)
Troublemaker, by Carla Kaplan (Harper)
Criticism
Exophony, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions)
Greyhound, by Joanna Pocock (Soft Skull Press)
Hayek’s Bastards, by Quinn Slobodian (Zone Books)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad (Knopf)
To Save and to Destroy, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Harvard University Press)
Fiction
The Antidote, by Karen Russell (Knopf)
Audition, by Katie Kitamura (Riverhead)
On the Calculation of Volume (Book III), by Solvej Balle, translated from the Danish by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell (New Directions)
We Do Not Part, by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris (Hogarth)
The Wilderness, by Angela Flournoy (Mariner)
Nonfiction
America, América, by Greg Grandin (Penguin Press)
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, by Barbara Demick (Random House)
Empire of AI, by Karen Hao (Penguin Press)
King of Kings, by Scott Anderson (Doubleday)
No More Tears, by Gardiner Harris (Random House)
Poetry
Chronicle of Drifting, by Yuki Tanaka (Copper Canyon)
Death of the First Idea, by Rickey Laurentiis (Knopf)
Night Watch, by Kevin Young (Knopf)
The Other Love, by Henri Cole (FSG)
Unravel, by Tolu Oloruntoba (McClelland & Stewart)
Barrios Book In Translation Prize
Exophony, by Yoko Tawada, translated from the Japanese by Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda (New Directions)
Heart Lamp, by Banu Mushtaq, translated from the Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi (And Other Stories)
Near Distance, by Hanna Stoltenberg, translated from the Norwegian by Wendy H. Gabrielsen (Biblioasis)
Sad Tiger, by Neige Sinno, translated from the French by Natasha Lehrer (Seven Stories)
The Frog in the Throat, by Markus Werner, translated from the German by Michael Hofmann (NYRB Classics)
The Wax Child, by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken (New Directions)
John Leonard Prize
Baldwin, by Nicholas Boggs (FSG)
Crown, by Evanthia Bromiley (Grove)
Hunchback, by Saou Ichikawa, translated from the Japanese by Polly Barton (Hogarth)
Mood Machine, by Liz Pelly (Atria/One Signal)
Salvage, by Hedgie Choi (University of Wisconsin Press)
The Slip, by Lucas Schaefer (Simon & Schuster)
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