The National Book Critics Circle announced the finalists for their best books of 2016, including these nine Macmillan titles:
Autobiography
IN GRATITUDE by Jenny Diski
THE SONG POET: A Memoir of My Father by Kao Kalia Yang
Biography
BLACK ELK: The Life of an American Visionary by Joe Jackson
GUILTY THING: A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson
Criticism
WHITE RAGE: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson
THE LONELY CITY: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing
Poetry
HOUSE OF LORDS AND COMMONS by Ishion Hustchinson
AT THE FOUNDLING HOSPITAL by Robert Pinsky
BLACKACRE by Monica Young
The full list of nominees can be seen here. The winners will be named March 16.