On Saturday, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) announced the finalists for its awards honoring books published in 2009. The awards ceremony will be on March 12. The board of directors of the NBCC nominates and votes on the books. (See a list of that group here.)
Click the highlighted titles for books reviewed in BookPage. See a full list of the nominees, which also include criticism and poetry. Which books are you rooting for to win?
Fiction
Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage
Marlon James, The Book of Night Women
Michelle Huneven, Blame
Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite
Nonfiction
Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History
Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains
William T. Vollmann, Imperial
Autobiography
Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love
Mary Karr, Lit
Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America
Edmund White, City Boy
Biography
Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor
Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone
Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Joyce Carol Oates will be honored with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. Read a handwritten interview with Oates in BookPage, in which the author tells us about her inspiration, favorite activity and whether it’s possible for humans to be happy.
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