Book critics start narrowing the list
| NEW YORK
The National Book Critics Circle have announced the finalists for its annual awards, which will be presented March 13.
Fiction
*A. Manette Ansay, "Midnight Champagne" (Morrow)
*Frederick Busch, "The Night Inspector" (Crown)
*J.M. Coetzee, "Disgrace" (Viking)
*David Gates, "The Wonders of the Invisible World" (Knopf)
*Jonathan Lethem, "Motherless Brooklyn" (Doubleday)
General Nonfiction
*Jane Brox, "Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History" (Beacon)
*John Dower, "Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II" (Norton/New Press)
*Patricia Hampl, "I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory" (Norton)
*Jean-Paul Kauffmann, "The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena" (Four Walls Eight Windows)
*Jonathan Weiner, "Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior" (Knopf)
Biography/Autobiography
*Richard Holmes, "Coleridge: Darker Reflections," vol. II (Pantheon)
*Jean Strouse, "Morgan: American Financier" (Random)
*Judith Thurman, "Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette" (Knopf)
*Susan Tifft and Alex Jones, "The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind The New York Times" (Little, Brown)
*Henry Wiencek, "The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White" (St. Martin's)
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