Finalists have been chosen for the National Book Critics Circle Awards in six categories as well as for the Barrios Book in Translation Prize and the John Leonard Prize. In addition, historian and journalist Frances FitzGerald is being honored with the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award; Rhoda Feng with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing; and Elizabeth Taylor with the NBCC Service Award. The Toni Morrison Achievement Award, whose winner has yet to be announced, will also be presented at the awards ceremony, which will be held March 25. To see all the finalists, click here.
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Finalists have been selected for the 2026 Gotham Book Prize, recognizing the best new book, fiction or nonfiction, set in or about New York City. The prize was founded in 2020 by Bradley Tusk, political strategist, author, and owner of the independent bookstore P&T Knitwear on the Lower East Side, and Howard Wolfson, a former New York City deputy mayor and current education program lead at Bloomberg Philanthropies.
The finalists:
1929 by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Audition by Katie Kitamura
Born in Flames by Bench Ansfield
I Regret Almost Everything by Keith McNally
Garbage Town by Ravi Gupta
Harlem Rhapsody by Victoria Christopher Murray
I See You've Called in Dead by John Kenney
Night People: How to Be a DJ in '90s New York City by Mark Ronson
Playworld by Adam Ross
The Gods of New York by Jonathan Mahler
Turning to Birds by Lili Taylor