National Book Critics Circle Award

Hell of A Book Or the Altogether Factual, Wholly Bona Fide Story of A Big Dreams, Hard Luck, American-Made Mad Kid By Mott, Jason

Last Night at the Telegraph Club By Lo, Malinda

Winter in Sokcho By Dusapin, Élisa Shua

Hamnet A Novel of the Plague By O'Farrell, Maggie

Here Is the Sweet Hand By Harris, Francine J.

Island on Fire The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire By Zoellner, Tom

Marking Time Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration By Fleetwood, Nicole R.

Minor Feelings An Asian American Reckoning By Hong, Cathy Park

Stranger in the Shogun's City A Japanese Woman and Her World By Stanley, Amy

Everything Inside Stories By Danticat, Edwidge