Best Books of February

Want a quick guide to February's best books? Visit our Best of the Month page, which features our Significant Seven editors' picks along with more new hardcover and paperback favorites, a bestseller tracker, and customer discussions. What's this month's Spotlight pick? The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead, David Shields's "surprisingly life-affirming" memoir of the inevitable decline of his own body (and ours).

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National Book Critics Circle Award Nominees

The nominees for the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Awards were announced on January 12 (we'll know the winners on March 6). See the full shortlists in fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism, as well as our list of former winners and nominees. This year's fiction contenders include:

• Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz
• In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
• The Gravedigger's Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
• The Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins

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