National Book Critics Circle Finalists Announced

January 13, 2008

The finalists for the annual NBCC award are now out. The fiction list pairs a couple of less buzzed about books with three that have already received either award love or copious amounts of ink in the book pages and on blogs. Here are the finalists for fiction and non-fiction with excerpts and other links where available. As a side note, the NBCC award is particularly interesting in that it is the only major award that pits American books against British ones.

Fiction

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Nonfiction

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For more on the NBCC Awards and the finalists in the other categories, check out the NBCC’s blog.

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