2026 National Book Critics Circle Awards
Here are the finalists for the NBCCA in the categories of Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Leonard Prize for first book.


31 items
Paper Girl
a Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America /
Shattered
a Memoir
Love, Queenie
Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star /
A Perfect Turmoil
Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled
Pride and Pleasure
the Schuyler Sisters in An Age of Revolution
Queen Mother
Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore
Troublemaker
the Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford
Exophony
Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
Greyhound
a Memoir
Hayek's Bastards
Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right
To Save and to Destroy
Writing as An Other
We Do Not Part
a Novel
The Wilderness
a Novel
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