National Book Critics Circle Award

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

Everything Inside Stories By Danticat, Edwidge

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

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