National Book Critics Circle Award 2022

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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

Bliss Montage

Finalists

Dr. No

Percival Everett, 2022

Another Name: Septology VI-VII

Jon Fosse, 2022

All the Lovers in the Night

Mieko Kawakami, 2023

The Furrows

Namwali Serpell, 2022

Nonfiction

Winner

The Method

How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Isaac Butler, 2022

Finalists

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández, 2022

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Joseph Osmundson, 2022

Fen, Bog and Swamp

A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Annie Proulx, 2022

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Biography

G-Man

J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage, 2022

Finalists

The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family

Kerri K. Greenidge, 2022

Mr. B

George Balanchine's 20th Century

Jennifer Homans, 2022

Metaphysical Animals

How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life

Clare Mac Cumhaill, Rachael Wiseman, 2022

Up from the Depths

Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

Aaron Sachs, 2022

Autobiography

Winner

Stay True

Finalists

Linea Nigra

An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes

Jazmina Barrera, 2022

A Line in the World

A Year on the North Sea Coast

Dorthe Nors, 2022

Come Back in September

A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan

Darryl Pinckney, 2022

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 2022

Poetry

Winner

Hotel Oblivion

Cynthia Cruz, 2022

Finalists

Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear

Poems from Gaza

Mosab Abu Toha, 2022

Hello I Must Be Going

David Hernandez, 2022

banana [ ]

Paul Hlava Ceballos, 2022

Milkweed Smithereens

Bernadette Mayer, 2022

Criticism

Winner

Free Indirect

The Novel in a Postfictional Age

Timothy Bewes, 2022

Finalists

Strangers to Ourselves

Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv, 2022

Seduced by Story

The Use and Abuse of Narrative

Peter Brooks, 2022

Constructing a Nervous System

Margo Jefferson, 2022

When Women Kill

Alia Trabucco Zerán, 2022

John Leonard Prize

Winner

Night of the Living Rez

Morgan Talty, 2022

Finalists

The School for Good Mothers

Jessamine Chan, 2022

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery, 2022

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty, 2022

Brother Alive

Zain Khalid, 2022

Ancestor Trouble

A Reckoning and a Reconciliation

Maud Newton, 2022

The Immortal King Rao: A Novel

Vauhini Vara, 2022

Gregg Barrios Book in Translation

Grey Bees

Andrey Kurkov, 2022