Meet the 2019 National Book Critics Circle Awards finalists

The National Book Critics Circle has announced the thirty finalists for its 2019 awards.

The winner of each of the six categories will be announced March 12.

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.

Fiction

• Everything Inside, by Edwidge Danticat 

• Feast Your Eyes, by Myla Goldberg 

• The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner 

• Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli 

• The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead 

Nonfiction

• Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future, by Kate Brown 

• The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution, by Peter Hessler 

• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland, by Patrick Radden Keefe 

• Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives, by Walt Odets 

• No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us, by Rachel Louise Snyder

Autobiography

• Five Days Gone: The Mystery of My Mother’s Disappearance as a Child, by Laura Cumming 

• Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, by Ronan Farrow 

• Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman 

• Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations, by Mira Jacob 

• Know My Name: A Memoir, by Chanel Miller

Biography

• Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, by Charles King 

• The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth, by Josh Levin 

• L.E.L.: The Lost Life and Scandalous Death of Letitia Elizabeth Landon, the Celebrated “Female Byron”, by Lucasta Miller 

• Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century, by George Packer 

• A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II, by Sonia Purnell 

Poetry

• The Tradition, by Jericho Brown 

• Deaf Republic, by Ilya Kaminsky 

• Magical Negro, by Morgan Parker 

• Dunce, by Mary Ruefle 

• Doomstead Days, by Brian Teare

Criticism

• Go Ahead in the Rain, by Hanif Abdurraqib 

• Essays One, by Lydia Davis 

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval, by Saidiya Hartman 

• Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018, by Peter Schjeldahl 

• Axiomatic, by Maria Tumarkin