National Book Critics Circle Award - Nonfiction

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National Book Critics Circle, 49 Books

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.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 12 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
9584 Edith Wharton R. W. B. Lewis 1975 American English
3548 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 1977 American English
17162 Facts of Life Maureen Howard 1965 American English
17162 Munich Telford Taylor 1979 American English
17162 Walter Lippmann and the American Century Ronald Steel 1980 American English
2666 The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould 1981 American English
13560 The Path to Power Robert Caro 1982 American English
9262 The Price of Power Seymour M. Hersh 1983 American English
17162 Weapons and Hope Freeman Dyson 1984 American English
6485 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 1985 American English
14985 War Without Mercy John W. Dower 1986 American English
1750 The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 1986 American English
6249 Parting the Waters Taylor Branch 1988 American English
17162 The Broken Cord Michael Dorris 1989 American English
17162 The Content of Our Character Shelby Steele 1990 American English
2316 Backlash Susan Faludi 1991 American English
11006 Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean 1992 American English
17162 The Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax 1993 American English
17162 The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas 1994 American English
17162 A Civil Action Jonathan Harr 1995 American English
9895 Bad Land Jonathan Raban 1996 British English
13560 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman 1997 American English
17162 Time, Love, Memory Jonathan Weiner 1999 American English
17162 Newjack Ted Conover 2000 American English
17162 Double Fold Nicholson Baker 2001 American English
17162 Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson 2003 American English
17162 The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch 2003 British English
1315 Voices from Chernobyl Svetlana Alexievich 1997 Belarusian Russian
17162 Rough Crossings Simon Schama 2005 British English
17162 Medical Apartheid Harriet A. Washington 2007 American English
4653 The Forever War Dexter Filkins 2008 American English
7667 The Age Of Wonder Richard Holmes 2008 British English
909 The Warmth Of Other Suns Isabel Wilkerson 2010 American English
17162 Liberty's Exiles Maya Jasanoff 2011 American English
2183 Far From the Tree Andrew Solomon 2012 American English
5807 Five Days at Memorial Sheri Fink 2013 American English
1037 The Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston 1976 American English
4159 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families Philip Gourevitch 1998 American English
17162 The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation David Brion Davis 2014 American English
4815 Dreamland Sam Quinones 2015 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
17162 The Evangelicals Frances FitzGerald 2017 American English
17162 Directorate S Steve Coll 2018 American English
1995 Say Nothing Patrick Radden Keefe 2018 American English
17162 Island on Fire Tom Zoellner 2020 American English
6664 How The Word Is Passed Clint Smith 2021 American English
17162 The Method Isaac Butler 2022 American English
14985 We Were Once A Family Roxanna Asgarian 2023 Unknown English
9059 Challenger Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English