{"id":3592,"date":"2011-01-24T05:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T13:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/?p=3592"},"modified":"2011-01-23T22:07:37","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T06:07:37","slug":"2010-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/publishing\/books\/2010-national-book-critics-circle-award-finalists\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The NBCC has announced their 2010 award finalists. I used to be a member of this group but there are too many older books I need to read to spend all my time trying to keep current with the new ones. So I don’t know much about a lot of these books. If you’ve read some, please share your thoughts.<\/p>\n

An unusual feature of the NBCC awards is a category for “criticism.” This probably comes about because of the difficulty of comparing nonfiction titles, since nonfiction is such a huge, unruly category. They also have a “biography” category for the same reason.<\/p>\n

Dalkey Archive was given a lifetime achievement award.<\/p>\n

I think the biggest surprise on this list probably is the\u00a0omission of Rebecca Skloot’s \u00a0The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. <\/em>Or maybe it’s that there are still enough book critics around to form a society. Following is the full list.<\/p>\n

Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em> by Jennifer Egan
\nFreedom <\/em>by Jonathan Franzen
\nTo the End of the Land<\/em> by David Grossman
\nComedy in a Minor Key<\/em> by Hans Keilson
\nSkippy Dies<\/em> by Paul Murray<\/p>\n

Nonfiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing to Envy<\/em> by Barbara Demick
\nEmpire of the Summer Moon <\/em>by S. C. Gwynne
\nApollo’s Angels<\/em> by Jennifer Homans
\nThe Emperor of All Maladies<\/em> by Siddhartha Mukherjee
\nThe Warmth of Other Suns<\/em> by Isabel Wilkerson<\/p>\n

Autobiography<\/strong><\/p>\n

Half a Life<\/em> by Darin Strauss
\nJust Kids<\/em> by Patti Smith
\nCrossing Mandelbaum<\/em> Gate by Kai Bird
\nThe Autobiography of an Execution<\/em> by David Dow
\nHitch-22<\/em> by Christopher Hitchens
\nHiroshima in the AM<\/em> by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto<\/p>\n

Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n

How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer<\/em> by Sarah Bakewell
\nThe Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham: A Biography<\/em> by Selina Hastings
\nCharlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous With American History <\/em>by Yunte Huang
\nThe Killing of Crazy Horse<\/em> by Thomas Powers
\nSimon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends<\/em> by Tom Segev<\/p>\n

Poetry<\/strong><\/p>\n

One With Others<\/em> by C.D. Wright
\nNox<\/em> by Anne Carson
\nThe Eternal City<\/em> by Kathleen Graber
\nLighthead<\/em> by Terrance Hayes
\nThe Best of It <\/em>by Kay Ryan<\/p>\n

Criticism<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Possessed<\/em> by Elif Batuman
\nThe Professor and Other Writings<\/em> by Terry Castle
\nLyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West<\/em> by Clare Cavanagh
\nThe Cruel Radience <\/em>by Susan Linfield
\nVanishing Point<\/em> by Ander Monson<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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