2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards Shortlists

CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE, Richard Ford, Cormac McCarthy, Michael Pollan, Simon Schama, Frederick Brown, Donald Antrim, Daniel Mendelsohn and W.D. Snodgrass, among others, have been shortlisted for the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Awards, it was announced on January 20, 2007. The complete list of finalists are as follows:

Fiction
1. Half of a Yellow Sun / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
2. The Inheritance of Loss / Kiran Desai
3. What is the What / Dave Eggers
4. The Lay of the Land / Richard Ford
5. The Road / Cormac McCarthy

General Nonfiction
1. The Occupation / Patrick Cockburn
2. The Girls Who Went Away / Ann Fessler
3. The Omnivore’s Dilemma / Michael Pollan
4. Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution / Simon Schama
5. The Lemon Tree / Sandy Tolan

Biography
1. The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher / Debby Applegate
2. At Canaan’s Edge / Taylor Branch
3. Flaubert / Frederick Brown
4. A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler / Jason Roberts
5. James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon / Julie Phillips

Memoir
1. The Afterlife / Donald Antrim
2. Fun Home / Alison Bechdel
3. Strange Piece of Paradise / Terri Jentz
4. Stuart: A Life Backwards / Alexander Masters
5. The Lost / Daniel Mendelsohn

Poetry
1. My Brother is Getting Arrested Again / Daisy Fried
2. Tom Thomson in Purgatory / Troy Jollimore
3. Poems 1945-1971 / Miltos Sachtouris
4. Ooga-Booga / Frederick Siedel
5. Not for Specialists / W.D. Snodgrass

Criticism
1. While Europe Slept / Bruce Bawer
2. Follies of the Wise / Frederick Crews
3. Breaking the Spell / Daniel C. Dennett
4. On Looking / Lia Purpura
5. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences / Lawrence Weschler

The winners of all categories will be announced on March 8, 2006, in New York