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And the Nominees Are…

Written on: January 27th, 2010 by: in Blog Posts

The National Book Critics Circle announced the nominees for its 2010 annual awards on Monday, and will name the winners on March 12.
It’s another feast for the book lover, and so many of these books are available from your library that it would be a crime to buy them! Click on the titles to link to the catalog record to find out more.

Autobiography:

• Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)
• Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother’s Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Mary Karr, Lit (Harper)
• Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family’s Journey to America (Simon & Schuster)

Fiction:

• Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
• Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)
• Michelle Huneven, Blame (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)
• Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf)

Nonfiction:

• Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)
• Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)
• Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remains (Random House)
• William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking)

Biography:

• Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life (Knopf)
• Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (Little, Brown)
• Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press)
• Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press)

Criticism:

• Eula Biss, Notes From No Man’s Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press)
• Stephen Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf Press)
• Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Norton)
• David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Da Capo Press)
• Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Faber)