Winners of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Awards

The National Book Critics Circle revealed the winners of its 2020 awards last night.

More than 600 literary critics and book review editors in the United States are responsible for the awards.

Here are the winners; you can read some of the judges' comments on the selections in the New York Times.

• Autobiography: Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, by Cathy Park Hong

• Biography: Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her World, by Amy Stanley 

• Criticism: Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, by Nicole Fleetwood 

• Fiction: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell 

• Nonfiction: Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire, by Tom Zoellner 

• Poetry: Here Is The Sweet Hand, by Francine J. Harris 

• John Leonard Prize: Luster, by Raven Leilani