National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction 2025

Winner announced · 5 books

For books published in 2025; awarded in 2026.

We Do Not Part

Han Kang

Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris

Winner
Audition

Katie Kitamura
On the Calculation of Volume III

Solvej Balle

Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell
The Antidote

Karen Russell
The Wilderness

Angela Flournoy