The National Book Critics Circle Award

Fiction Winner

• Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fiction Finalists

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
• Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
• Lily King, Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books)

General Nonfiction Winner

• David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Pantheon)
• Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co.)
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
• Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Biography Winner

• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Biography Finalists

• Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner)
• Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Bloomsbury)

Autobiography

• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side (Tin House)
• Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure (Random House)
• Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not (Metropolitan Books)

Poetry Winner

• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
• Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books)
• Christian Wiman, Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Jake Adam York, Abide (Southern Illinois University Press)

Criticism Winner

• Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)

Criticism Finalists

• Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation (Graywolf Press)
• Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
• Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade)

John Leonard Prize

• Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Alexandra Schwartz

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• Charles Finch
• B. K. Fischer
• Benjamin Moser
• Lisa Russ Spaar

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Toni Morrison