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2025 NBCC Awards Longlist: Autobiography

By Members Of The National Book Critics Circle Board

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts, by Margaret Atwood (Doubleday)

The Broken King, by Michael Thomas (Grove)

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, by Hala Alyan (Avid Reader Press)

Memorial Days, by Geraldine Brooks (Viking)

Mother Mary Comes to Me, by Arundhati Roy (Scribner)

Paper Girl, by Beth Macy (Penguin)

Shattered, by Hanif Kureishi (Ecco)

Things in Nature Merely Grow, by Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

A Truce That Is Not Peace, by Miriam Toews (Bloomsbury)

Twice Born: Finding My Father In the Margins of Biography, by Hester Kaplan (Catapult)