2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists Announced

FICTION

Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad

Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

David Grossman, To the End of the Land

Hans Keilson, Comedy in a Minor Key

Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

NON FICTION

S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet

Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

CRITICISM

Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings

Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West

Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance

Ander Monson, Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir