Team Book ClubNational Book Critics Circle
National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
The fiction finalists and winners chosen each year by the National Book Critics Circle, the American award judged by working book critics. Editions are named for the year the books were published.
Every year
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2025 Finalists
5 books
Winner: We Do Not Part by Han Kang
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2024 Finalists
5 books
Winner: My Friends by Hisham Matar
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2023 Finalists
5 books
Winner: I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore
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2022 Finalists
5 books
Winner: Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
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2021 Finalists
5 books
Winner: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
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2020 Finalists
5 books
Winner: Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell
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2019 Finalists
5 books
Winner: Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat
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2018 Finalists
5 books
Winner: Milkman by Anna Burns
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2017 Finalists
5 books
Winner: Improvement by Joan Silber
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2016 Finalists
5 books
Winner: LaRose by Louise Erdrich