National Book Critics Circle Award

Empire of AI Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI By Hao, Karen

Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space By Higginbotham, Adam

We Were Once A Family A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America By Asgarian, Roxanna

The Method How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act By Butler, Isaac

How the Word Is Passed A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America By Smith, Clint

All That She Carried The Journey of Ashley's Sack, A Black Family Keepsake By Miles, Tiya

Island on Fire The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire By Zoellner, Tom

Say Nothing A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Keefe, Patrick Radden

Directorate S The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan By Coll, Steve

The Evangelicals The Struggle to Shape America By FitzGerald, Frances