2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced:

Fiction

• Teju Cole, Open City (our review, excerpt)
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Write The Marriage Plot, our review, excerpt [pdf])
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger’s Child (our review, The Millions Interview: Alan Hollinghurst Answers his Critics, excerpt)
• Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (excerpt)
• Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia (our review, excerpt)

Nonfiction

• Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil War (excerpt)
• James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Ben Marcus on The Information, excerpt)
• Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918 (excerpt)
• Maya Jasanoff, Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War (excerpt)
• John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead (Staff Pick, excerpt [pdf])

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced (via The Millions)