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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.

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  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Autobiography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Viking, [2025] — PR9619.3.B7153Z46 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Autobiography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Scribner, 2025. — PR9499.3.R59A3 2025
  • Paper Girl

    a Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America /

    Macy, Beth,
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Autobiography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Penguin Press, 2025. — PN4820.M33 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Autobiography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — PR6061.U68Z46 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Autobiography
    Book, 2025New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025. — PR9199.3.T6113Z46 2025
  • Love, Queenie

    Merle Oberon, Hollywood's First South Asian Star /

    Sen, Mayukh,
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Biography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : W.W. Norton and Company, [2025] — PN2287.O18S46 2025
  • A Perfect Turmoil

    Walter E. Fernald and the Struggle to Care for America's Disabled

    Green, Alex (Lecturer),
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Biography
    Paperback, 2025New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2025. — R154.F49G74 2025
  • Pride and Pleasure

    the Schuyler Sisters in An Age of Revolution

    Vaill, Amanda
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Biography
    Book, 2025New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025. — E276.V35 2025
  • Queen Mother

    Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore

    Farmer, Ashley D.
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Biography
    Book, 2025New York, New York : Pantheon Books, [2025] — E185.97.M75F37 2025
  • Troublemaker

    the Fierce, Unruly Life of Jessica Mitford

    Kaplan, Carla
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Biography
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Harper, [2025] — HX84.M55K37 2025
  • Exophony

    Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

    Tawada, Yōko, 1960-
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Criticism
    Paperback, 2025New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, [2025] — PL862.A85E3613 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Criticism
    Paperback, 2025New York : Soft Skull, 2025. — E169.Z83P63 2025
  • Hayek's Bastards

    Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

    Slobodian, Quinn, 1978-
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Criticism
    Book, 2025Brooklyn, New York : Zone Books, [2025] — HB74.P65S5795 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Criticism
    Book, 2025Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. — PN56.O69N48 2025
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2025New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2025. — FIC RUSSELL
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Riverhead Books, 2025. — FIC KITAMURA
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Fiction
    Paperback, 2025New York : New Directions Publishing, [2025] — FIC BALLE
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Hogarth, 2025. — FIC HAN
  • National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Fiction
    Book, 2025New York : Mariner Books, 2025. — FIC FLOURNOY