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The National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of nearly 700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews published in English.
For more information see: The National Book Critics Circle
2022 Winners
Bliss Montage: Stories
Ling Ma | 2022 Fiction
The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
Isaac Butler | 2022 Nonfiction
Hotel Oblivion
Cynthia Cruz | 2022 Poetry
Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
Timothy Bewes | 2022 Criticism
Past Winners
The Love Songs of W.E.B Du Bois
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers | 2021 Fiction
How the Word Is Passed
Clint Smith | 2021 Nonfiction
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days
Rebecca Donner | 2021 Biography
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
Jeremy Atherton Lin | 2021 Autobiography
Stranger In the Shogun's City
Amy Stanley | 2020 Biography
Minor Feelings
Cathy Park Hong | 2020 Autobiography
Here Is the Sweet Hand
Francine J Harris | 2020 Poetry
Marking Time
Nicole R Fleetwood | 2020 Criticism
Magical Negro
Morgan Parker | 2019 Poetry
Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Saidiya Hartman | 2019 Criticism
Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
Christopher Bonanos | 2018 Biography
Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home
Nora Krug | 2018 Autobiography
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
Ruth Franklin | 2016 Biography
Lab Girl
Hope Jahren| 2016 Autobiography
House of Lords and Commons
Ishion Hutchinson | 2016 Poetry
White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
Carol Anderson | 2016 Criticism
The Sellout
Paul Beatty | 2015 Fiction
Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones | 2015 Nonfiction
Lila
Marilynne Robinson | 2014 Fiction
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis | 2014 Nonfiction
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
John Lahr | 2014 Biography
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast | 2014 Autobiography
Citizen: An American Lyric
Claudia Rankine | 2014 Poetry
The Essential Ellen Willis
Ellen Willis | 2014 Criticism
Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
Leo Damrosch | 2013 Biography
Farewell, Fred Voodoo
Amy Wilentz | 2013 Autobiography
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Ben Fountain | 2012 Fiction
Far from the Tree
Andrew Solomon | 2012 Nonfiction
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A Caro | 2012 Biography
Swimming Studies
Leanne Shapton | 2012 Autobiography
Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
D A Powell | 2012 Poetry
Stranger Magic
Marina Warner | 2012 Criticism
George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis | 2011 Biography
The Memory Palace
Mira Bartók | 2011 Autobiography
Space, In Chains
Laura Kasischke | 2011 Poetry
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition
Geoff Dyer | 2011 Criticism
A Visit From the Goon Squad
Jennifer Egan | 2010 Fiction
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson | 2010 Nonfiction
How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne
Sarah Bakewell | 2010 Biography
Half a Life
Darin Strauss | 2010 Autobiography
One With Others
C D Wright | 2010 Poetry
Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics
Clare Cavanagh | 2010 Criticism
Cheever: A Life
Blake Bailey | 2009 Biography
Somewhere Towards the End
Diana Athill | 2009 Autobiography
Half the World in Light
Juan Felipe Herrera | 2008 Poetry
Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter
Seth Lerer | 2008 Criticism
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Junot Díaz | 2007 Fiction
Medical Apartheid
Harriet A Washington | 2007 Nonfiction
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
Tim Jeal | 2007 Biography
Brother, I'm Dying
Edwidge Danticat | 2007 Autobiography
Tom Thomson in Purgatory
Troy Jollimore | 2006 Poetry
Everything That Rises
Lawrence Weschler | 2006 Criticism
Gilead
Marilynne Robinson | 2004 Fiction
The Reformation: A History
Diarmaid MacCulloch | 2004 Nonfiction
De Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan | 2004 Biography
Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
William Taubman | 2003 Biography
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
Janet Browne | 2002 Biography
Austerlitz
W G Sebald | 2001 Fiction
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker | 2001 Nonfiction
Boswell's Presumptuous Task
Adam Sisman | 2001 Biography
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
Herbert P Bix | 2000 Biography
