Fiction Winner

• Louise Erdrich, LaRose (Harper)

Fiction Finalists

• Michael Chabon, Moonglow (Harper)
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown)
• Ann Patchett, Commonwealth (Harper)
• Zadie Smith, Swing Time (Penguin Press)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (Crown)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America (Nation Books)
• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday)
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War (Harvard University Press)
• John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File (Scribner)

Biography Winner

• Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life (Liveright)

Biography Finalists

• Nigel Cliff, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story (Harper)
• Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White (Harper)
• Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Autobiography

• Hope Jahren, Lab Girl (Alfred A. Knopf)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Marion Coutts, The Iceberg (Black Cat Press)
• Jenny Diski, In Gratitude (Bloomsbury)
• Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between (Random House)
• Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father (Metropolitan Books)

Poetry Winner

• Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Poetry Finalists

• Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books)
• Bernadette Mayer, Works and Days (New Directions)
• Robert Pinsky, At the Foundling Hospital (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Monica Youn, Blackacre (Graywolf Press)

Criticism Winner

• Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (Bloomsbury)

Criticism Finalists

• Mark Greif, Against Everything: Essays (Pantheon)
• Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic (University of Chicago Press)
• Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone (Picador)
• Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live (Catapult)

John Leonard Prize

• Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing (Alfred A. Knopf)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Michelle Dean

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• Julia M. Klein
• Christian Lorentzen
• Becca Rothfeld
• Leo Robson

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Margaret Atwood

The NBCC Emerging Critics Fellowships

• Taylor Brorby
• Paul W. Gleason
• Zachary Graham
• Yalie Saweeda Kamara
• Summer McDonald
• Ismail Muhamad
• Heather Scott Partington

Fiction Winner

• Paul Beatty, The Sellout (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fiction Finalists

• Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies (Riverhead)
• Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth, translated by Christina MacSweeney (Coffee House Press)
• Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno (Hogarth)
• Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen (Penguin Press)

General Nonfiction Winner

• Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic (Bloomsbury)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Rome (Liveright)
• Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America (Spiegel & Grau)
• Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Biography Winner

• Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley (Random House)

Biography Finalists

• Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth (Oxford University Press)
• T.J. Stiles, Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America (Alfred A. Knopf)
• Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva (Harper)
• Karin Wieland, translated by Shelley Frisch, Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives (Liveright)

Autobiography

• Margo Jefferson, Negroland (Pantheon)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World (Grand Central Publishing)
• Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• George Hodgman, Bettyville (Viking)
• Helen Macdonald, H Is for Hawk (Grove Press)

Poetry Winner

• Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn (Penguin)
• Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions)
• Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax and Selected Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford (Copper Canyon Press)

Criticism Winner

• Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts (Graywolf)

Criticism Finalists

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau)
• Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake (Yale University Press)
• Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop (Princeton University Press)
• James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life (Brandeis University Press)

John Leonard Prize

• Kirstin Valdez Quad, Night at the Fiestas (W.W. Norton & Company)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Carlos Lozada

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• Ruth Franklin
• James Parker
• Roxana Robinson
• Leo Robson

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Wendell Berry

Fiction Winner

• Marilynne Robinson, Lila (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Fiction Finalists

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press)
• Marlon James, A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books)
• Lily King, Euphoria (Atlantic Monthly Press)
• Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea (Riverhead Books)

General Nonfiction Winner

• David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation (Alfred A. Knopf)

General Nonfiction Finalists

• Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book (Pantheon)
• Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Henry Holt & Co.)
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur Goldhammer (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press)
• Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Biography Winner

• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh (W.W. Norton & Co.)

Biography Finalists

• Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• S.C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson (Scribner)
• Ian S. MacNiven, “Literchoor Is My Beat”: A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography (Bloomsbury)

Autobiography

• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury)

Autobiography/Memoir Finalists

• Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait (W.W. Norton & Co.)
• Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side (Tin House)
• Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure (Random House)
• Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not (Metropolitan Books)

Poetry Winner

• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)

Poetry Finalists

• Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise (Coffee House Press)
• Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon (Penguin Books)
• Christian Wiman, Once in the West (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Jake Adam York, Abide (Southern Illinois University Press)

Criticism Winner

• Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz (University of Minnesota Press)

Criticism Finalists

• Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation (Graywolf Press)
• Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (Graywolf Press)
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
• Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do? (Red Lemonade)

John Leonard Prize

• Phil Klay, Redeployment (Penguin Press)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Winner

• Alexandra Schwartz

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing Finalists

• Charles Finch
• B. K. Fischer
• Benjamin Moser
• Lisa Russ Spaar

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award Winner

• Toni Morrison