National Book Critics Circle Announces Finalists for Publishing Year 2011

On Saturday, January 21st, the National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for its book awards for publishing year 2011. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony on Thursday, March 8th.

Fiction

Teju Cole, Open City
Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child
Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision
Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia

Non-fiction
Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War
James Gleick, The Information: a history, a theory, a flood
Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War
John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays

Autobiography
Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing
Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Luis J. Rodríguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

Biography

Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution
John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961
Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Criticism
David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews, 1989-2010
Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence
Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture
Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Poetry
Forrest Gander, Core Samples from the World
Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia
Laura Kasischke, Space, in Chains
Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
Bruce Smith, Devotions