BooksThese Are The Finalists For The 2017 National Book Critics Circle AwardsThe NBCC has announced its 30 finalists in six categories — autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry — for the most outstanding books of 2017.By by Arianna ReboliniBuzzFeed StaffPosted on January 22, 2018, 3:09 pmTwitterFacebookLink FICTION The Ninth Hour, Alice McDermott Exit West, Mohsin Hamid The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy Improvement, Joan Silber Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward NONFICTION The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea, Jack Davis The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America, Frances FitzGerald The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, Masha Gessen Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe, Kapka Kassabova A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes, Adam Rutherford AUTOBIOGRAPHY The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, Thi Bui Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay Admissions: Life As a Brain Surgeon, Henry Marsh The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China, Xiaolu Guo BIOGRAPHY Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Caroline Fraser The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography, Edmund Gordon The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek, Howard Markel Gorbachev: His Life and Times, William Taubman Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, Kenneth Whyte POETRY Fourth Person Singular, Nuar Alsadir Earthling, James Longenbach Whereas, Layli Long Soldier The Darkness of Snow, Frank Ormsby Directions for Use, Ana Ristovic CRITICISM You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages, Carina Chocano The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story, Edwidge Danticat Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History, Camille Dungy Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions, Valeria Luiselli Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News, Kevin Young