A finalists' reading will be held March 14. Winners of the National Book Critics Circle awards will be announced at a ceremony March 15 in New York.
This year, for only the third time in the history of the awards, one of the autobiography finalists was selected by the NBCC Members' Choice: Roxane Gay's Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The finalists are usually chosen by the NBCC's 24-member board, but awards rules allow for books to become finalists if a certain percentage of the general membership votes for them.
