National Book Critics Circle Award

Stranger in the Shogun's City A Japanese Woman and Her World By Stanley, Amy, 1978-

Everything Inside Stories By Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Know My Name A Memoir By Miller, Chanel

Magical Negro Poems By Parker, Morgan

Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Keefe, Patrick Radden, 1976-

The Queen The Forgotten Life Behind An American Myth By Levin, Josh

Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval By Hartman, Saidiya V.

Belonging A German Reckons With History and Home By Krug, Nora

Directorate S The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Coll, Steve

Feel Free Essays By Smith, Zadie