National Book Critics Circle Award Winning Books - General Nonfiction

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Below are list of a variety of award winning books. So browse through them and see if there is anything that interests you. Why not collect all of your favorite award winners?

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national book critics circle award: general nonfiction

The National Book Critics Circle Award is an annual award given by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote the finest books and reviews published in English.

award category

   fiction
> general nonfiction
   memoir/autobiography
   biography
   poetry
   criticism

award year

   2009
   2008
   2007
   2006
   2005
   2004
   2003
   2002
   2001
   2000
   1999
   1998
   1997
   1996
   1995

2009 winner

The Age of Wonder - Richard Holmes +w

Too often, scientific historians focus solely on the achievements of individuals,...  read more

nominees

Fordlandia - Greg Grandin +w

Strength in What Remains - Tracy Kidder +w

Imperial - William T. Vollmann +w

The Hindus - Wendy Doniger +w

2008 winner

The Forever War - Dexter Filkins +w

Journalist Dexter Filkins provides a long view of the conflict with Islamofascism,...  read more

nominees

The Dark Side - Jane Mayer +w

From Colony to Superpower - George C. Herring +w

This Republic of Suffering - Drew Gilpin Faust +w

White Protestant Nation - Allan J. Lichtman +w

2007 winner

Medical Apartheid - Harriet A. Washington +w



nominees

World Without Us - Alan Weisman +w

Legacy of Ashes - Tim Weiner +w

American Transcendentalism - Philip F. Gura +w

What Hath God Wrought - Daniel Walker Howe +w

2006 winner

Rough Crossings - Simon Schama +w

British historian Simon Schama provides a fresh historical perspective as he...  read more

nominees

The Girls Who Went Away - Ann Fessler +w

Occupation - Patrick Cockburn +w

The Lemon Tree - Sandy Tolan +w

The Omnivore's Dilemma - Michael Pollan +w

2005 winner

Voices From Chernobyl - Svetlana Alexievich +w

In these stunning monologues, ordinary people--citizens, farmers, children,...  read more

nominees

Human Cargo - Caroline Moorehead +w

Eating Stone - Ellen Meloy +w

Night Draws Near - Anthony Shadid +w

The Great War for Civilisation - Robert Fisk +w

2004 winner

The Reformation - Diarmaid MacCulloch +w

The challenge to the supreme governing authority of the Pope and the Catholic...  read more

nominees

Blue Blood - Edward Conlon +w

Arc of Justice - Kevin Boyle +w

The Working Poor - David K. Shipler +w

Blood Done Sign My Name - Timothy B. Tyson +w

2003 winner

Sons of Mississippi - Paul Hendrickson +w

Through portraits of seven Mississippi sheriffs--depicted in a memorable Life...  read more

nominees

Rising Up and Rising Down - William T. Vollmann +w

The Bounty - Caroline Alexander +w

Random Family - Adrian Nicole Leblanc +w

Gulag - Anne Applebaum +w

2002 winner

A Problem from Hell - Samantha Power +w

This study of genocide in the 20th century examines America's pattern of reluctance...  read more

nominees

Brown - Richard Rodriguez +w

Edison's Eve - Gaby Wood +w

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - Chris Hedges +w

American Ground - William Langewiesche +w

2001 winner

Double Fold - Nicholson Baker +w

Novelist Nicholson Baker attacks the archiving practices of libraries. His...  read more

nominees

Neighbors - Jan T. Gross +w

Seabiscuit - Laura Hillenbrand +w

The Lost Children of Wilder - Nina Bernstein +w

The Brother - Sam Roberts +w

2000 winner

Newjack - Ted Conover +w

In this investigative report on prison life, a journalist who took a year-long...  read more

nominees

Crucible of War - Fred Anderson +w

The Collaborator - Alice Yaeger Kaplan +w

Betrayal of Trust - Laurie Garrett +w

Way Out There in the Blue - Frances Fitzgerald +w

1999 winner

Time, Love, Memory - Jonathan Weiner +w

Weiner, winner of a Pulitzer Prize for THE BEAK OF THE FINCH, highlights the...  read more

nominees

Embracing Defeat - John W. Dower +w

I Could Tell You Stories - Patricia Hampl +w

The Black Room at Longwood - Jean-Paul Kauffmann +w

Five Thousand Days Like This One - Jane Brox +w

1998 winner

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families - Philip Gourevitch +w

A history of the 1994 Rwanda genocide, in which longstanding enmity between...  read more

nominees

The Greatest Benefit to Mankind - Roy Porter +w

The Professor and the Madman - Simon Winchester +w

King Leopold's Ghost - Adam Hochschild +w

Many Thousands Gone - Ira Berlin +w

1997 winner

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down - Anne Fadiman +w

The author tells the story of the Lees, a family of Hmong refugees in California...  read more

nominees

The Bible As It Was - James L. Kugel +w

How the Mind Works - Steven Pinker +w

Into Thin Air - Jon Krakauer +w

American Scripture - Pauline Maier +w

1996 winner

Bad Land - Jonathan Raban +w

Jonathan Raban, an Englishman, explores the harrowing reality behind the dream...  read more

nominees

The Middle East - Bernard Lewis +w

Great Books - David Denby +w

Hitler's Willing Executioners - Daniel J. Goldhagen +w

Ashes to Ashes - Richard Kluger +w

1995 winner

A Civil Action - Jonathan Harr +w

Children in Woburn, Massachusetts began getting leukemia in unusually high...  read more

nominees

All God's Children - Fox Butterfield +w

In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle - Madeleine Blais +w

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder - Lawrence Weschler +w

A Gentle Madness - Nicholas A. Basbanes +w