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Awards: National Book Critics Circle Finalists

Finalists for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards were
announced on Saturday, January 12. Book winners will be announced in New
York on Thursday, March 6. For more information, see NBCC's Critical Mass blog

Finalists:
Autobiography
* Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone by
Joshua Clark Find this book in our catalog.
* Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat Find this book in our catalog.
* The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973-1982 by Joyce Carol Oates
* Writing in an Age of Silence by Sara Paretsky Find this book in our catalog.
* Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and
Death in Putin's Russia by Anna Politkovskaya
Nonfiction
* American Transcendentalism by Philip Gura Find this book in our catalog.
* What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 by
Daniel Walker Howe Find this book in our catalog.
* Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington Find this book in our catalog.
* Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA by Tim Weiner Find this book in our catalog.
* The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Find this book in our catalog.
Fiction
* Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra Find this book in our catalog.
* The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz Find this book in our catalog.
* In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar Find this book in our catalog.
* The Gravediggers Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates Find this book in our catalog.
* The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins
Biography
* Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal Find this book in our catalog.
* Edith Wharton by Hermione Lee Find this book in our catalog.
* Ralph Ellison by Arnold Rampersad Find this book in our catalog.
* The Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 by John
Richardson
* Thomas Hardy by Claire Tomalin Find this book in our catalog.
Poetry
* Elegy by Mary Jo Bang