National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction by National Book Critics Circle
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.
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October Light by <a href="/authors/395">John Gardner</a>
October Light is one of John Gardner's masterworks. The penniless widow of a once-wealthy dentist, Sally Abbot now lives in the Vermont farmhouse of her older brother, 72-year-old James Page. Polar...
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Song of Solomon by <a href="/authors/9">Toni Morrison</a>
It follows the life of Macon "Milkman" Dead III, an African-American male living in Michigan, from birth to adulthood. The main theme in the novel is Milkman's quest for identity as a black man in ...
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The Stories of John Cheever by <a href="/authors/30">John Cheever</a>
The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 short story collection by American author John Cheever. It contains some of his most famous stories, including "The Enormous Radio," "Goodbye, My Brother," "Th...
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The Year of the French by <a href="/authors/396">Thomas Flanagan</a>
In 1798, Irish patriots, committed to freeing their country from England, landed with a company of French troops in County Mayo, in westernmost Ireland. They were supposed to be an advance guard, f...
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The Transit of Venus by <a href="/authors/397">Shirley Hazzard</a>
The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in post-war England. What happens to these young women — seduction a...
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Rabbit Is Rich by <a href="/authors/67">John Updike</a>
Rabbit Is Rich is a 1981 novel by John Updike. It is the third novel of the four-part series which begins with Rabbit, Run and Rabbit Redux, and concludes with Rabbit At Rest. There is also a relat...
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Love Medicine by <a href="/authors/399">Louise Erdrich</a>
Love Medicine is Louise Erdrich’s first novel, published in 1984. Each chapter is narrated by a different character. These narratives are very conversational, as if the narrators were telling a st...
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The Accidental Tourist by <a href="/authors/248">Anne Tyler</a>
The Accidental Tourist is a 1985 novel by Anne Tyler that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Set in Baltimore, Maryland, the plot rev...
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Kate Vaiden by <a href="/authors/400">Reynolds Price</a>
Kate Vaiden (1986) is a novel by Reynolds Price about a white woman from the American South who, after a teenage pregnancy, abandons her son shortly after giving birth to him and who does not get i...
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The Counterlife by <a href="/authors/3">Philip Roth</a>
The Counterlife (1986) is a novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the fourth full novel to feature the fictional novelist Nathan Zuckerman. However, when The Counterlife was published, Zu...
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The Middleman and Other Stories by <a href="/authors/401">Bharati Mukherjee</a>
The Middleman and Other Stories, (1988) is a collection of short stories by Bharati Mukherjee. Stories from this volume are frequently anthologized, particularly Orbiting, A Wife's Story, and The M...
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Billy Bathgate by <a href="/authors/272">E. L. Doctorow</a>
Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for t...
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Rabbit at Rest by <a href="/authors/67">John Updike</a>
In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild. His son, Nelson, is behavi...
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A Thousand Acres by <a href="/authors/250">Jane Smiley</a>
Larry Cook is an aging farmer who decides to incorporate his farm, handing complete and joint ownership to his three daughters, Ginny, Rose, and Caroline. When the youngest daughter objects, she is...
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All the Pretty Horses by <a href="/authors/13">Cormac McCarthy</a>
All the Pretty Horses is a novel by U.S. author Cormac McCarthy published in 1992. Its romanticism (in contrast to the bleakness of McCarthy's earlier work) brought the writer much public attention...
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The Stone Diaries by <a href="/authors/253">Carol Shields</a>
It is the fictional autobiography about the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirt...
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A Lesson Before Dying by <a href="/authors/402">Ernest J. Gaines</a>
A Lesson Before Dying is Ernest J. Gaines' eighth novel, published in 1993. "A Lesson Before Dying" is a story of two African-American men scrabbling to attain their manhood in a deeply prejudic...
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Mrs. Ted Bliss by <a href="/authors/398">Stanley Elkin</a>
Published posthumously in 1995, Mrs. Ted Bliss tells the story of an eighty-two-year-old widow starting life anew after the death of her husband. As Dorothy Bliss learns to cope with the mundane ri...
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Women in Their Beds by <a href="/authors/274">Gina Berriault</a>
This remarkable collection received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Rea Award for the Short Story, a gold medal from the Commonwealth Club of Califor...
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The Blue Flower by <a href="/authors/403">Penelope Fitzgerald</a>
In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's permission to wed his true philosophy — a plain, simple c...
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The Love of a Good Woman by <a href="/authors/404">Alice Munro</a>
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was origin...
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Motherless Brooklyn by <a href="/authors/405">Jonathan Lethem</a>
Motherless Brooklyn is a Jonathan Lethem novel published in 1999. It is a detective story set in Brooklyn. The novel won the 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and the 2000 Gold Da...
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Being Dead by <a href="/authors/406">Jim Crace</a>
Being Dead is a novel by the English writer Jim Crace, published in 1999. Its principal characters are married zoologists Joseph and Celice and their daughter Syl. The story tells of how Joseph an...
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Austerlitz by <a href="/authors/201">W. G. Sebald</a>
Austerlitz, the internationally acclaimed masterpiece by "one of the most gripping writers imaginable" (The New York Review of Books), is the story of a man?s search for the answer to his life?s ce...
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The Known World by <a href="/authors/260">Edward P. Jones</a>
The Known World is a 2003 historical novel by Edward P. Jones. It was his first novel and second book. Set in antebellum Virginia, it examines issues regarding the ownership of black slaves by free...
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The Inheritance of Loss by <a href="/authors/407">Kiran Desai</a>
Set in the 1980s, the book tells the story of Jemubhai Popatlal Patel, a judge living out a disenchanted retirement in Kalimpong, a hill station in the Himalayan foothills, and his relationship wit...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by <a href="/authors/262">Junot Diaz</a>
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) is a best-selling novel written by Dominican-American author Junot Díaz. Although a work of fiction, the novel is set in New Jersey where Díaz was raised...
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A Visit From The Goon Squad by <a href="/authors/1420">Jennifer Egan</a>
Jennifer Egan's spellbinding novel circles the lives of Bennie Salazar, an ageing former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Although Benni...
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Binocular Vision by <a href="/authors/1431">Edith Pearlman</a>
Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection.
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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk: A Novel by <a href="/authors/1432">Ben Fountain</a>
A ferocious firefight with Iraqi insurgents at "the battle of Al-Ansakar Canal"—three minutes and forty-three seconds of intense warfare caught on tape by an embedded Fox News crew—has transformed ...
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