The National Book Critics Circle Award

Fiction Winner

• Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books)

Fiction Finalists

• Teju Cole, Open City (Random House)
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child (Knopf)
• Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (Scribner)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (Random)
• James Gleick, The Information (Pantheon)
• Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)

Biography Winner

• John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life (Penguin Press)

Biography Finalists

• Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution (Little, Brown)
• Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 (Knopf)
• Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention (Viking)
• Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press)

Autobiography

• Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace (Free Press)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing (W.W. Norton)
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America (Little, Brown)
• Luis J. Rodríguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing (Touchstone)
• Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War (Henry Holt)

Poetry Winner

• Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains (Copper Canyon Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World (New Directions)
• Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions)
• Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Bruce Smith, Devotions (University of Chicago Press)

Criticism Winner

• Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (Graywolf)

Criticism Finalists

• David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything (Faber & Faber)
• Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence (Doubleday)
• Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture (Open Letter)
• Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (University of Minnesota Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Kathryn Schulz

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• William Deresiewicz
• Ruth Franklin
• Garth Risk Hallberg
• Kathryn Harrison

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Robert B. Silvers