NBCC finalists are in

The National Book Critics Circle finalists have been announced, and I think it's fair to say that there are no surprises here. From the fiction list, I would like to read Cormac McCarthy's The Road and Dave Eggers's What Is the What, and from the nonfiction list Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma has been nagging at me since before it was publishing. I have until March 8 before the winners are announced—better get crackin'.