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Posted on January 21, 2022 at 12:00 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists for its 2021 awards.
The winner of each of the six categories — autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — will be announced March 17 in a virtual event that's open to the public.
Also to be revealed that evening: the winner of the John Leonard Prize for first book.
Previous notable winners include Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie for Americanah and Anna Burns for Milkman; you can browse all past winners on the NBCC's website.
Autobiography
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A Little Devil In America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib
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Gay Bar: Why We Went Out, by Jeremy Atherton Lin
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A Farewell To Gabo And Mercedes: A Son’s Memoir, by Rodrigo Garcia
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A Ghost In the Throat, by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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Concepcion: An Immigrant Family’s Fortunes, by Albert Samaha
Biography
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Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser, by Susan Bernofsky
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Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message to America, by Keisha N. Blain
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All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler, by Rebecca Donner
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Mike Nichols: A Life, by Mark Harris
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Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York , by Alexander Nemerov
Criticism
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Girlhood, by Melissa Febos
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Why Didn’t You Do What You Were Told?, by Jenny Diski
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Who Will Pay Reparations On My Soul?, by Jesse McCarthy
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Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon, by Mark McGurl
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The Right To Sex , by Amia Srinivasan
Fiction
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The Netanyahus, by Joshua Cohen
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Second Place, by Rachel Cusk
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Burntcoat, by Sarah Hall
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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois, by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty, by Patrick Radden Keefe.
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The Family Roe: An American Story, by Joshua Prager
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, by Sam Quinones
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How the Word Is Passed, by Clint Smith
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Orwell’s Roses, by Rebecca Solnit
Poetry
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Ceive, by B.K. Fischer
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The Renunciations, by Donika Kelly
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Cutlish, by Rajiv Mohabir
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The Rhinehart Frames, by Cheswayo Mphanza
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frank: sonnets , by Diane Seuss
John Leonard Prize
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Somebody's Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford
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My Monticello, by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
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Detransition, Baby, by Torrey Peters
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Pop Song, by Larissa Pham
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Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So
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Philomath, by Devon Walker-Figueroa
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