National Book Critics Circle Award Nonfiction
Each year, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism.
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Edith Wharton
R.W.B. Lewis · 1988 · 2 lists
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Samuel Johnson
Walter Jackson Bate · 1791 · 3 lists
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Facts of Life
Maureen Howard · 1978 · 1 list
- 4
Munich
Robert Harris · 2018 · 1 list
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Walter Lippmann and the American Century
Ronald Steel · 1980 · 1 list
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The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould · 1981 · 3 lists
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The Path to Power
Robert A. Caro · 1982 · 1 list
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The Price of Power
Seymour M. Hersh · 1983 · 1 list
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Weapons and Hope
Freeman Dyson · 1983 · 1 list
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Common Ground
J. Anthony Lukas · 1985 · 3 lists
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War Without Mercy
John W. Dower · 1986 · 1 list
- 12
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1986 · 5 lists
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Parting the Waters
Taylor Branch · 1988 · 5 lists
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The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris · 1989 · 1 list
- 15
The Content of Our Character
Shelby Steele · 1990 · 1 list
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Backlash
Susan Faludi · 1981 · 1 list
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Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean · 1993 · 1 list
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The Land Where the Blues Began
Alan Lomax · 1979 · 2 lists
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The Rape of Europa
Lynn Nicholas · 1994 · 1 list
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A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr · 1996 · 1 list
- 21
Bad Land
Jonathan Raban · 1996 · 1 list
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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman · 1997 · 1 list
- 23
Time, Love, Memory
Jonathan Weiner · 1999 · 1 list
- 24
Newjack
Ted Conover · 2000 · 1 list
- 25
Double Fold
Nicholson Baker · 2001 · 1 list
- 26
Sons of Mississippi
Paul Hendrickson · 2003 · 1 list
- 27
The Reformation
Will Durant · 1997 · 1 list
- 28
Voices from Chernobyl
Svetlana Alexievich · 1997 · 1 list
- 29
Rough Crossings
Simon Schama · 2005 · 1 list
- 30
Medical Apartheid
Harriet A. Washington · 2006 · 1 list
- 31
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins · 2008 · 3 lists
- 32
The Age Of Wonder
Richard Holmes · 2008 · 3 lists
- 33
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson · 2010 · 6 lists
- 34
Liberty's Exiles
Maya Jasanoff · 2011 · 1 list
- 35
Far from the Tree
Robin Benway · 2017 · 1 list
- 36
Five Days at Memorial
Sheri Fink · 2013 · 2 lists
- 37
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston · 1989 · 2 lists
- 38
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Philip Gourevitch · 1998 · 3 lists
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Dreamland
Kevin Baker · 1999 · 1 list
- 41
Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · 7 lists
- 42
The Evangelicals
Frances FitzGerald · 2017 · 1 list
- 43
Directorate S
Steve Coll · 2018 · 1 list
- 44
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2018 · 7 lists
- 45
Island on Fire
Alexandra Witze · 2014 · 1 list
- 46
How The Word Is Passed
Clint Smith · 2021 · 2 lists
- 47
The Method
Isaac Butler · 2022 · 1 list
- 48
We Were Once A Family
Roxanna Asgarian · 2023 · 2 lists
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Challenger
Adam Higginbotham · 2024 · 2 lists