O National Book Critics Circle Award é um conjunto de prémios anuais atribuídos pelo National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) para promover as melhores obras críticas publicadas no Reino Unido."Jennifer Egan and Isabel Wilkerson Win National Book Critics Circle Awards", By JULIE BOSMAN, NY Times, March 10, 2011

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Ficção Publicação 2017 Joan Silber Improvement2016 Louise Erdrich LaRose2015 Paul Beatty The Sellout2014 Marilynne Robinson Lila2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall2008 Roberto Bolaño 26662007 Junot Diaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss2005 E.L. Doctorow The March2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World2002 Ian McEwan 2001 W. G. Sebald Austerlitz2000 Jim Crace Being Dead1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine1983 William Kennedy Ironweed1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit of Venus1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon1976 John Gardner October Light1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Não Ficção Geral <small>Publicação 2017 Frances FitzGerald The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America2016 Matthew Desmond Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City2015 Sam Quinones Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic2014 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation2013 Sheri Fink Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital2012 Andrew Solomon Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity2011 Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World2010 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration2009 Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science2008 Dexter Filkins The Forever War2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution2005 Svetlana Alexievich Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–631987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography

Memórias/Autobiografia <small>Publicação 2017 Xiaolu Guo Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China2016 Hope Jahren Lab Girl2015 Margo Jefferson Negroland2014 Roz Chast Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?2013 Amy Wilentz Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti2012 Leanne Shapton Swimming Studies2011 Mira Bartók The Memory Palace2010 Darin Strauss Half a Life2009 Diana Athill Somewhere Towards the End2008 Ariel Sabar My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents

Biografia <small>Publicação 2017 Caroline Fraser Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder2016 Ruth Franklin Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life2015 Charlotte Gordon Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley2014 John Lahr Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh2013 Leo Damrosch Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World2012 Robert A. Caro The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson2011 John Lewis Gaddis George F. Kennan: An American Life2010 Sarah Bakewell How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne2009 Blake Bailey Cheever: A Life2008 Patrick French The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul2007 Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Biografia/Autobiografia (descontinuado) <small>Publicação 2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era2002 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II2001 Adam Sisman Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson2000 Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan1999 Henry Wiencek The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White1998 Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes1995 Robert Polito Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart1993 Edmund White Genet1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World1991 Philip Roth Patrimony: A True Story1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt1988 Richard Ellmann Oscar Wilde1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World1986 Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter1985 Leon Edel Henry James: A Life1984 Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–18591983 Joyce Johnson Minor Characters

Poesia <small>Publicação 2017 Layli Long Soldier Whereas2016 Ishion Hutchinson House of Lords and Commons2015 Ross Gay Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude2014 Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric2013 Frank Bidart Metaphysical Dog2012 D. A. Powell Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys2011 Laura Kasischke Space, In Chains2010 C.D. Wright One With Others2009 Rae Armantrout Versed2008 Juan Felipe Herrera Half the World in Light2008 August Kleinzahler Sleeping it Off in Rapid City2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood1995 William Matthews Time and Money1994 Mark Rudman Rider1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946–19911991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures1988 Donald Hall That One Day1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III1975 John Ashbery Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror

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