National Book Critics Circle Awards Announces First-Ever Biography Longlist

Mar. 15, 2025

A selection of books from the NBCC’s Biography longlist.Photo:Liveright, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Simon & Schuster

Liveright, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Simon & Schuster

TheNational Book Critics Circle AwardsBiography longlist is now available.On Dec. 17, the organization shared their first-ever longlist for the genre. From Dec. 16 to Dec. 19, the organizationwill share six longlistsfor fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry and criticism published in the United States, in honor of the NBCC’s 50th anniversary.The NBCC longlist for Biography includes:

Penguin Press

The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now!“The NBCC is proud to release our longlists for the first time in our 50-year history,” said NBCC President Heather Scott Partington in a Dec. 16 announcement. “Revealing them allows us to honor more writers, translators and books than we ever have in a single year. The best books of 2024 were narratives of resilience, interrogation and imagination. They asked us to question power, art and genre."

Knopf

“At a time when the freedom to read is under attack, we’re thrilled to shout these authors’ names from the rooftops,” Partington added. “We celebrate their fearlessness and artistic vision. These are vital words.”

Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Awards will be announced on Jan. 23, 2025. Awards will be presented on March 20, 2025.

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