National Book Critics Circle

Here's your list of finalists for the NBCC awards.

FICTION
Edwidge Danticat, Dew Breaker
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America

GENERAL NONFICTION
Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Edward Conlon, Blue Blood
Diarmaid McCulloch, The Reformation: A History
David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Timothy B. Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Vol. 1
Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
John Guy, Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, De Kooning: An American Master

POETRY
Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
D.A. Powell, Cocktails
Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins
James Richardson, Interglacial
Gary Snyder, Danger on Peaks

CRITICISM
Richard Howard, Paper Trail: Selected Prose
Patrick Neate, Where You're At: Notes from the Frontline of a Hip-Hop World
Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
Craig Seligman, Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel

I'll give you my list of bests later in the week.