National Book Critics Circle Awards for Publication Year 2024 - The Winners
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the winners for its prestigious awards celebrating the best books of publishing year 2024. Here are the winners and finalists across six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction and poetry.
30 books

WINNER in Fiction
Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 & Sam Sacks
My Friends
Hisham Matar

Hardcover, 2024
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
WINNER in Nonfiction
Garrett M. Graff & The Stacks Podcast
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Adam Higginbotham

Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
WINNER in Criticism
Christie Tate & National Book Foundation
There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension
Hanif Abdurraqib

Hardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
WINNER in Autobiography
Alexandra Alter & The Atlantic
Patriot: A Memoir
Alexei Navalny

Hardcover, 2024
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
WINNER in Biography
Alexandra Jacobs
Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
Cynthia Carr
Hardcover, 2024
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
WINNER in Poetry
Amber Sparks & Brian Dillon
Wrong Norma
Anne Carson

Paperback, 2024
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Criticism finalist
The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Jesse McCarthyPaperback, 2024
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fiction finalist
Michael Schaub & Alexandra Jacobs
Beautyland
Marie-Helene Bertino

Hardcover, 2024
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poetry finalist
The New York Times
Scattered Snows, to the North: Poems
Carl Phillips
Hardcover, 2024
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Biography finalist
Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers
Jean StrouseHardcover, 2024
$32.00$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book