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The 2025 National Book Critics Circle finalists
Jan 23 2025
The National Book Critics Circle has announced the finalists and special award winners for this year’s awards cycle, its 50th, honoring books published in 2024. A total of 31 publishers are represented across 42 finalists. Winners of the eight competitive categories will be named on March 20, 2025, at the New School in New York City, in a ceremony that will be free and open to the public. Author Maxine Hong Kingston, who won the 1976 NBCC Nonfiction Award for The Woman Warrior, has been named a distinguished guest for the evening, and will speak in honor of the semicentennial.
BookBrowse Book Club
Let’s Call Her Barbie
by Renée Rosen
She was only eleven-and-a-half inches tall, but she would change the world. Barbie is born in this bold new novel by USA Today bestselling author Renée Rosen.
The Memory Library
by Kate Storey
Journey through the pages of this heartwarming novel, where hope, friendship and second chances are written in the margins.
Babylonia
by Costanza Casati
From the author of the bestselling Clytemnestra comes another intoxicating excursion into ancient history. When kings fall, queens rise.
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Help Wanted by Adelle Waldman
From the best-selling author of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. comes a funny, eye-opening tale of work in contemporary America.
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The Secret History of the Rape Kit
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The story of the woman who kicked off a feminist revolution in forensics, and then vanished into obscurity.
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Going Home
by Tom Lamont
Going Home is a sparkling, funny, bighearted story of family and what happens when three men take charge of a toddler following an unexpected loss.
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