National Book Award - Nonfiction
The National Book Award for Nonfiction is one of five U.S. annual National Book Awards, which are given by the National Book Foundation to recognize outstanding literary work by U.S. citizens. They are awards "by writers to writers". The panelists are five "writers who are known to be doing great work in their genre or field". https://www.nationalbook.org/national-book-awards/years/
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion · 2005 · 9 lists
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Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates · 2015 · 6 lists
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Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2006 · 6 lists
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1986 · 5 lists
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The Yellow House
Sarah M. Broom · 1953 · 4 lists
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A Bright Shining Lie
Neil Sheehan · 1988 · 3 lists
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Katherine Boo · 2012 · 3 lists
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Common Ground
J. Anthony Lukas · 1985 · 3 lists
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Henry James
Leon Edel · 1931 · 3 lists
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A Stillness at Appomattox
Bruce Catton · 1953 · 2 lists
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James Joyce
Richard Ellmann · 1959 · 2 lists
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Master of the Senate
Robert Caro · 2009 · 2 lists
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Russia Leaves the War
George F. Kennan · 1956 · 2 lists
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The City in History
Lewis Mumford · 1961 · 2 lists
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The Dead Are Arising
Les Payne · 2020 · 2 lists
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The First Tycoon
T. J. Stiles · 2009 · 2 lists
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The Haunted Land
Tina Rosenberg · 1995 · 2 lists
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The Hemingses of Monticello
Annette Gordon-Reed · 2008 · 2 lists
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The House of Morgan
Ron Chernow · 1990 · 2 lists
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The New Negro
Jeffrey C. Stewart · 2018 · 2 lists
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The Noonday Demon
Andrew Solomon · 2001 · 2 lists
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The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
William L. Shirer · 1960 · 2 lists
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The Swerve
Stephen Greenblatt · 2011 · 2 lists
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Age of Ambition
Evan Osnos · 2014 · 1 list
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American in Italy
Herbert Kubly · 1955 · 1 list
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Arc of Justice
Kevin Boyle · 2004 · 1 list
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Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez · 1986 · 1 list
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Becoming a Man
Paul Monette · 1992 · 1 list
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Freedom
Orlando Patterson · 1994 · 1 list
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
Thomas L. Friedman · 1990 · 1 list
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Herman Melville
Newton Arvin · 2020 · 1 list
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How We Die
Sherwin B. Nuland · 1994 · 1 list
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In the Heart of the Sea
Nathaniel Philbrick · 2000 · 1 list
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Legacy of Ashes
Tim Weiner · 2007 · 1 list
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Mistress to an Age
J. Christopher Herold · 1958 · 1 list
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph L. Rusk · 1884 · 1 list
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Stamped from the Beginning
Ibram X. Kendi · 2016 · 1 list
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The Course of Empire
Bernard A. DeVoto · 1952 · 1 list
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The Future Is History
Masha Gessen · 1 list
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The Lion and the Throne
Catherine Drinker Bowen · 1998 · 1 list
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The Measure of Man
Joseph Wood Krutch · 1960 · 1 list
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The Sea Around Us
Rachel Carson · 1951 · 1 list
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The Unwinding
George Packer · 2013 · 1 list
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The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan · 2007 · 1 list
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United States
Gore Vidal · 1787 · 1 list
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Waiting for Snow in Havana
Carlos Eire · 2003 · 1 list