National Book Critics Circle award nominees:
Fiction
William T. Vollmann, “Europe Central”
E.L. Doctorow, “The March”
Mary Gaitskill, “Veronica”
Kazuo Ishiguro, “Never Let Me Go”
Andrea Levy, “Small Island”
General Nonfiction
Joan Didion, “The Year of Magical Thinking”
Orhan Pamuk, “Istanbul”
Francine du Plessix Gray, “Them”
Judith Moore, “Fat Girl”
Vikram Seth, “Two Lives”
Biography/Autobiography
Doris Kearns Goodwin, “Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln”
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, “American Prometheus”
Carolyn Burke, “Lee Miller”
Jonathan Coe, “Like a Fiery Elephant”
Ron Powers, “Mark Twain”
Poetry
Simon Armitage, “The Shout”
Manuel Blas de Luna, “Bent to the Earth”
Jack Gilbert, “Refusing Heaven”
Richard Siken, “Crush”
Ron Slate, “The Incentive of the Maggot”
Criticism
John Updike, “Still Looking”
Arthur Danto, “Unnatural Wonders”
Hal Crowther, “Gather at the River”
William Logan, “The Undiscovered Country”
Eliot Weinberger, “What Happened Here”