Member Awards and Achievements 2016 NBCC Award Finalists January 18, 2017 Share on Twitter (opens in a new tab) on Facebook (opens in a new tab) on Linkedin (opens in a new tab) via email Finalists for the 2016 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on January 17. Louise Erdrich’s LaRose and Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth were finalists in the category of Fiction. Ruth Franklin’s Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life and Joe Jackson’s Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary were finalists in the category of Biography. See the complete list of finalists here.