2022 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists

Winners to be announced March 23, 2023

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

Jazmina Barrera, Linea Nigra: An Essay on Pregnancy and Earthquakes
Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir (Doubleday)
Dorthe Nors, A Line in the World: A Year on the North Sea Coast
Darryl Pinckney, Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
Ingrid Rojas Contreras, The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

BIOGRAPHY

Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
Kerri K. Greenidge, The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
Jennifer Homans, Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman, Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
Aaron Sachs, Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times

CRITICISM

Rachel Aviv, Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Peter Brooks, Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Margo Jefferson, Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Alia Trabucco Zerán, When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold

FICTION

NONFICTION

Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
Kelly Lytle Hernández, Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
Joseph Osmundson, Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
Annie Proulx, Fen, Bog, & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

POETRY

GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZE

Boris Dralyuk’s translation of Grey Bees by Andrey Kurkov
Jennifer Croft’s translation of The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk Riverhead Books)
Fady Joudah’s translation of You Can Be the Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
Mara Faye Lethem’s translation of When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
Christina MacSweeney’s translation of Linea Nigra by Jazmina Barrera
Mark Polizzotti’s translation of Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga