2023 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. Here are the winning audiobooks that are available through your local bookstore for the publishing year 2022.
Bliss Montage
Stories
By: Ling Ma
Narrated by: Katharine Chin
Length: 6 hours 13 minutes
"Narrator Katharine Chin nails the dark humor and flat tone of this bizarre and fascinating short story collection."- AudioFile
A new creation by the author of Severance, Bliss Montage crashes through our carefully built mirages.
What happens when fantasy tears the screen of the everyday to wake us up? Could that waking be our end?
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Stay True
A Memoir
By: Hua Hsu
Narrated by: Hua Hsu
Length: 5 hours 28 minutes
Audiobook details Add to Wish List“Stay True by Hua Hsu is a memoir set largely in/at Berkeley in the 1990s. A quietly profound look at the momentousness of the decisions you make as an emerging adult - about friendship, romance, art, music, activism, and family. Read more
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G-Man (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By: Beverly Gage
Narrated by: Gabra Zackman
Length: 36 hours 35 minutes
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Biography
Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography, the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy, and the 43rd LA Times Book Prize in Biography | Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Atlantic, The Washington... Read more
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Grey Bees
By: Andrey Kurkov
Narrated by: Andrew Byron
Length: 11 hours 50 minutes
With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine's most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict.
Little Starhorodivka, a village of three streets, lies in Ukraine's Grey Zone, the no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces. Thanks to the lukewarm war of sporadic violence and constant propaganda that... Read more
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Night of the Living Rez
By: Morgan Talty
Narrated by: Darrell Dennis
Length: 7 hours 6 minutes
Set in a Native community in Maine, Night of the Living Rez is a riveting debut collection about what it means to be Penobscot in the twenty-first century and what it means to live, to survive, and to persevere after tragedy.
In twelve striking, luminescent stories, author Morgan Talty—with searing humor, abiding compassion, and deep... Read more
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