The National Book Critics Circle announced their finalists on Saturday. The National Book Critics Circle has roughly 500 members and was founded in 1974. Awards were given out for fiction, non-fiction, poetry, autobiographical, criticism and biographical works, as well as some other categories.

Joyce Carol Oats was a finalist in two categories this year. Her novel, The Gravedigger's Daughter nominated in the fiction category and The Journals by Oats was nominated in the autobiography category.

For the rest of this story and a list of nominees, see the AP news article.