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2011 National Book Critcs Circle Award Nominees [showing slide 4 of 23]

A WORLD ON FIRE by Amanda Foreman
by Amanda Foreman
"A staggering work of research, occasionally toilsome to read."
Exhaustive record of Britain's growing alarm at the escalating American Civil War and outright sympathy and shelter for the Confederacy. Read full book review >
OPEN CITY by Teju Cole THE MARRIAGE PLOT by Jeffrey Eugenides THE STRANGER'S CHILD by Alan Hollinghurst A WORLD ON FIRE by Amanda Foreman THE INFORMATION by James Gleick TO END ALL WARS by Adam Hochschild BINOCULAR VISION by Edith Pearlman STONE ARABIA by Dana Spiotta LIBERTY'S EXILES by Maya Jasanoff PULPHEAD by John Jeremiah Sullivan ONE HUNDRED NAMES FOR LOVE by Diane Ackerman THE MEMORY PALACE by Mira Bartók HARLEM IS NOWHERE by Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts IT CALLS YOU BACK by Luis J. Rodriguez REVOLUTION by Deb Olin Unferth LOVE AND CAPITAL by Mary Gabriel GEORGE F. KENNAN by John Lewis Gaddis HEMINGWAY'S BOAT by Paul Hendrickson MALCOLM X by Manning Marable DENG XIAOPING AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF CHINA by Ezra F. Vogel IS THAT A FISH IN YOUR EAR? by David Bellos OTHERWISE KNOWN AS THE HUMAN CONDITION by Geoff Dyer THE ECSTASY OF INFLUENCE by Jonathan Lethem