National Book Critics Circle Award 2023

by National Book Critics Circle

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37 books

Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.

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See the source list and commentary at www.bookcritics.org

Fiction

Winner

I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home

Lorrie Moore, 2023

Finalists

Tremor

Teju Cole, 2023

North Woods

Daniel Mason, 2023

Vengeance Is Mine

Marie NDiaye, 2023

Blackouts

Justin Torres, 2023

Nonfiction

Winner

We Were Once a Family

A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian, 2023

Finalists

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

A Journey Through the Deep State

Kerry Howley, 2023

Who Gets Believed?

When the Truth Isn't Enough

Dina Nayeri, 2023

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Jeff Sharlet, 2023

Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe, 2023

Biography

Winner

Winnie and Nelson

Portrait of a Marriage

Jonny Steinberg, 2023

Finalists

King: A Life

Jonathan Eig, 2023

The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts

The True Story of The Bondwoman's Narrative

Gregg Hecimovich, 2023

Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong's Rendezvous with American History

Yunte Huang, 2023

Betty Friedan

Magnificent Disrupter

Rachel Shteir, 2023

Autobiography

Winner

How to Say Babylon

Safiya Sinclair, 2023

Finalists

I Would Meet You Anywhere

Susan Kiyo Ito, 2023

Secret Harvests

A Hidden Story of Separation and the Resilience of a Family Farm

David Mas Masumoto, 2023

Rotten Evidence

Ahmed Naji, 2023

Story of a Poem

Matthew Zapruder, 2023

Poetry

Winner

Phantom Pain Wings

Kim Hyesoon, 2023

Finalists

All Souls

Saskia Hamilton, 2023

The Gathering of Bastards

Romeo Oriogun, 2023

Information Desk

Robyn Schiff, 2023

Trace Evidence

Charif Shanahan, 2023

Criticism

Winner

Deadpan

The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression

Tina Post, 2023

Finalists

The Chapter

A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Nicholas Dames, 2023

Creep

Accusations and Confessions

Myriam Gurba, 2024

Doppelganger

A Trip into the Mirror World

Naomi Klein, 2023

Pleasure and Efficacy

Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques

Grace Elisabeth Lavery, 2023

John Leonard Prize

Winner

Waiting to Be Arrested at Night

A Uyghur Poet's Memoir of China's Genocide

Tahir Hamut Izgil, 2023

Finalists

Black Pastoral

Ariana Benson, 2023

A Nimble Arc

James Van Der Zee and Photography

Emilie Boone, 2023

The Love of Singular Men

Victor Heringer, 2023

When Crack Was King

A People's History of a Misunderstood Era

Donovan X. Ramsey, 2023

Judgment and Mercy

The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

Martin J. Siegel, 2023

Gregg Barrios Book in Translation

Winner

Cold Nights of Childhood

Tezer Özlü, 2023