The National Book Critics Circle Finalists are:
FICTION
Open City by Teju Cole
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Stranger’s Child by Alan Hollinghurst
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman
Stone Arabia by Dana Spiotta
NONFICTION
A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War by Amanda Foreman
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick
To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 by Adam Hochschild
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff
Pulphead: Essays by John Jeremiah Sullivan
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing by Diane Ackerman
The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok
Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing by Luis J. Rodriguez
Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War by Deb Olin Unferth
BIOGRAPHY
Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution by Mary Gabriel
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961 by Paul Hendrickson
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel