For the first time in its 50-year history, the National Book Critics Circle is announcing longlists for its annual awards in the autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry categories, as well as for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize.

Two longlists per day will be announced on a rolling basis this week. The finalists for this round of the awards, which will honor books published in 2024, will be announced on January 23, with the 50th annual NBCC ceremony slated for March 20 at the New School in New York City. (The NBCC Awards do not require submissions from publishers, nor do they charge a fee; winners are selected by juries derived from the organization}s membership of working book review critics and editors.)

“The NBCC is proud to release our longlists for the first time in our 50 year history,” says NBCC president Heather Scott Partington. “Revealing them allows us to honor more writers, translators, and books than we ever have in a single year.”

The announced titles on this year’s National Book Critics Circle Award longlists are as follows:

Criticism

Fiction

Autobiography

  • Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir by Tessa Hulls (MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • The Last Fire Season: A Personal and Pyronatural History by Manjula Martin (Pantheon)
  • Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker (Fern)
  • Little Seed by Wei Tchou (Deep Vellum)
  • The Minotaur at Calle Lanza by Zito Madu (Belt)
  • Manboobs: A Memoir of Musicals, Visas, Hope, and Cake by Komail Aijazuddin (Abrams Press)
  • Mother Archive: A Dominican Family Memoir by Erika Morillo (University of Iowa)
  • My Good Bright Wolf: A Memoir by Sarah Moss (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny, translated from the Russian by Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel (Knopf)
  • Women Surrounded by Water: A Memoir by Patricia Coral (Mad Creek)

Biography

Nonfiction

Poetry

  • An Authentic Life by Jennifer Chang (Copper Canyon)
  • Cloud Missives by Kenzie Allen (Tin House)
  • Consider the Rooster by Oliver Baez Bendorf (Nightboat)
  • A Gaze Hound That Hunteth by the Eye by V. Penelope Pelizzon (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Instructions for the Lovers by Dawn Lundy Martin (Nightboat)
  • The Palace of Forty Pillars by Armen Davoudian (Tin House)
  • Scattered Snows, to the North by Carl Phillips (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
  • Sturge Town by Kwame Dawes (W.W. Norton)
  • Wrong Norma by Anne Carson (New Directions)
  • Yard Show by Janice N. Harrington (BOA)

The Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

  • The Children of the Ghetto: Star of the Sea by Elias Khoury, translated from the Arabic by Humphrey Davies (Archipelago)
  • Herscht 07769 by László Krasznahorkai, translated from the Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet (New Directions)
  • Holy Winter 20/21 by Maria Stepanova, translated from the Russian by Sasha Dugdale (New Directions)
  • A Last Supper of Queer Apostles by Pedro Lemebel, translated from the Spanish by Gwendolyn Harper (Penguin Classics)
  • Like a Sky Inside by Jakuta Alikavazovic, translated from the French by Daniel Levin Becker (Fern)
  • Melvill by Rodrigo Fresán, translated from the Spanish by Will Vanderhyden (Open Letter)
  • Mourning a Breast by Xi Xi, translated from the Chinese by Jennifer Feeley (New York Review Books)
  • A Muzzle for Witches by Dubravka Ugrešić, translated from the Croatian by Ellen Elias- Bursać (Open Letter)
  • O by Judith Kiros, translated from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson (World Poetry)
  • Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel by Yoko Tawada, translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky (New Directions)
  • Traces of Enayat by Iman Mersal, translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger (Transit)
  • V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the French by John Lambert (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

This article has been updated with further information.