National Book Critics Circle Award

Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Higginbotham, Adam

We Were Once A Family A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America By Asgarian, Roxanna

The Method How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act By Butler, Isaac

How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America By Smith, Clint

All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake By Miles, Tiya

Island on Fire The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire By Zoellner, Tom

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

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

The Evangelicals The Struggle to Shape America By FitzGerald, Frances

Evicted Poverty and Profit in the American City By Desmond, Matthew