National Book Critics Circle Award

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.

The main awards fall into six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.

 

 


 

The Sellout: A Novel By Paul Beatty Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781250083258
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Published: Picador - March 1st, 2016

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Fiction 


Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic By Sam Quinones Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781620402528
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Published: Bloomsbury Publishing - April 5th, 2016

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Nonfiction 


Negroland: A Memoir By Margo Jefferson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307473431
Published: Vintage - August 23rd, 2016

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Autobiography 


The Argonauts By Maggie Nelson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781555977351
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Published: Graywolf Press - January 26th, 2016

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Criticsim 


Lila (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel By Marilynne Robinson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374187613
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - October 7th, 2014

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation By David Brion Davis Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9780307389695
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Published: Vintage - January 6th, 2015

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction


Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?: A Memoir By Roz Chast Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781608198061
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Published: Bloomsbury USA - May 6th, 2014

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography


Citizen: An American Lyric By Claudia Rankine Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781555976903
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Published: Graywolf Press - October 7th, 2014

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry


The Essential Ellen Willis By Ellen Willis, Nona Willis Aronowitz (Editor) Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780816681211
Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - May 1st, 2014

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism


Americanah: A novel By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780307455925
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Published: Vintage - March 4th, 2014

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti By Amy Wilentz Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781451644074
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Published: Simon & Schuster - December 17th, 2013

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography


Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World By Leo Damrosch Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780300205411
Published: Yale University Press - August 5th, 2014

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography


Metaphysical Dog: Poems By Frank Bidart Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780374534622
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Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - May 6th, 2014

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry


Distant Reading By Franco Moretti Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781781680841
Published: Verso - June 4th, 2013

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism


Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel By Ben Fountain Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780060885618
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Published: Ecco - November 27th, 2012

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity By Andrew Solomon Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780743236720
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Published: Scribner - October 1st, 2013

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction


The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV By Robert A. Caro Cover Image
$25.00
ISBN: 9780375713255
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Published: Vintage - May 7th, 2013

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography


Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems By D. A. Powell Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781555976057
Published: Graywolf Press - February 14th, 2012

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry


Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights By Marina Warner Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780674725850
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Published: Belknap Press - November 18th, 2013

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism


Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories By Edith Pearlman, Ann Patchett (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Edith Pearlman, Ann Patchett (Introduction by)
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ISBN: 9780982338292
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Published: Lookout Books - January 11th, 2011

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World By Maya Jasanoff Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781400075478
Published: Vintage - March 6th, 2012

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in General Nonfiction


The Memory Palace: A Memoir By Mira Bartok Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781439183328
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Published: Free Press - August 9th, 2011

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography


Space, in Chains (Lannan Literary Selections) By Laura Kasischke Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9781556593338
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Published: Copper Canyon Press - March 15th, 2011

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry


Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews By Geoff Dyer Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781555975791
Published: Graywolf Press - March 29th, 2011

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism


The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration By Isabel Wilkerson Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780679444329
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Published: Random House - September 7th, 2010

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Nonfiction


A Visit from the Goon Squad By Jennifer Egan Cover Image
$35.00
ISBN: 9780307592835
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Published: Knopf - June 8th, 2010

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction


Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West By Clare Cavanagh Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780300152968
Published: Yale University Press - January 5th, 2010

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism


Half a Life: A Memoir By Darin Strauss Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780812982534
Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - May 31st, 2011

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography