The National Book Critics Circle Award

Fiction Winner

• Louise Erdrich, LaRose (Harper)

Fiction Finalists

• Michael Chabon, Moonglow (Harper)
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown)
• Ann Patchett, Commonwealth (Harper)
• Zadie Smith, Swing Time (Penguin Press)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)
• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday)
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press)
• John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (Scribner)

Biography Winner

• Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright)

Biography Finalists

• Nigel Cliff, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story (Harper)
• Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (Harper)
• Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Autobiography

• Hope Jahren, Lab Girl (Alfred A. Knopf)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Marion Coutts, The Iceberg (Black Cat Press)
• Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (Bloomsbury)
• Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between (Random House)
• Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father (Metropolitan Books)

Poetry Winner

• Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry Finalists

• Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books)
• Bernadette Mayer, Works and Days (New Directions)
• Robert Pinsky, At the Foundling Hospital (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)

Criticism Winner

• Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury)

Criticism Finalists

• Mark Greif, Against Everything: Essays (Pantheon)
• Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic (University of Chicago Press)
• Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador)
• Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Catapult)

John Leonard Prize

• Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Michelle Dean

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• Julia M. Klein
• Christian Lorentzen
• Becca Rothfeld
• Leo Robson

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Margaret Atwood

The NBCC Emerging Critics Fellowships

• Taylor Brorby
• Paul W. Gleason
• Zachary Graham
• Yalie Saweeda Kamara
• Summer McDonald
• Ismail Muhamad
• Heather Scott Partington