National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced

We're looking forward to the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards being announced tomorrow, March eighth.

Here are the finalists:

"One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, A Marriage, and the Language of Healing" by Diane Ackerman
"The Memory Palace" by Mira Bartók
"Harlem Is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America" by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
"It Calls You Back: An Odyssey Through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing" by Luis J. Rodríguez
"Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War " by Deb Olin Unferth

"Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution" by Mary Gabriel
"George F. Kennan: An American Life " by John Lewis Gaddis
"Hemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934-1961" by Paul Hendrickson
"Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention" by Manning Marable
"Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China" by Ezra F. Vogel

Place your bets in the comments!

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