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Nominees for The National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced last week. The nominees in the Fiction category are:

Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker (Knopf)
Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty (Bloomsbury)
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (Random House)
Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Philip Roth, The Plot Against America (Houghton Mifflin)

Up against the likes of Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt for the Biography/Autobiography award is singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan. Long recognized as one of the most literary songwriters of all time, Bob Dylan turns his unique story-telling ability inward in Chronicles: Volume One.

Read an Excerpt from Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan