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 five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Biography/Autobiography and Criticism. Awards are not given to titles that have been previously published in English, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They also do not "consider cookbooks, self help books (including inspirational literature), reference books, picture books or children's books." [1] Titles are, however, eligible to be awarded if they are "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories above."
The 2006 award winners will be announced on March 8, 2007.
Fiction
General nonfiction
| 2005 | Svetlana Alexievich | Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster |
| 2004 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | The Reformation: A History |
| 2003 | Paul Hendrickson | Sons of Mississippi |
| 2002 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
| 2001 | Nicholson Baker | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper |
| 2000 | Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing |
| 1999 | Jonathan Weiner | Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
| 1998 | Philip Gourevitch | We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families |
| 1997 | Anne Fadiman | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
| 1996 | Jonathan Raban | Bad Land |
| 1995 | Jonathon Harr | A Civil Action |
| 1994 | Lynn H. Nicholas | The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War |
| 1993 | Alan Lomax | The Land Where the Blues Began |
| 1992 | Norman Maclean | Young Men and Fire |
| 1991 | Susan Faludi | Backlash: The Undeclared War Against America Women |
| 1990 | Shelby Steele | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America |
| 1989 | Michael Dorris | The Broken Cord |
| 1988 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| 1986 | John W. Dower | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families |
| 1984 | Freeman Dyson | Weapons and Hope |
| 1983 | Seymour M. Hersch | The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House |
| 1982 | Robert Caro | The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 1981 | Stephen Jay Gould | The Mismeasure of Man |
Biography/Autobiography
| 2005 | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin | American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 2004 | Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan | De Kooning: An American Master |
| 2003 | William Taubman | Khrushchev: The Man and His Era |
| 2002 | Janet Browne | Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II |
| 2001 | Adam Sisman | Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson |
| 2000 | Herbert P. Bix | Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan |
| 1999 | Henry Wiencek | The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White |
| 1998 | Sylvia Nasar | A Beautiful Mind |
| 1997 | James Tobin | Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II |
| 1996 | Frank McCourt | Angela's Ashes |
| 1995 | Robert Polito | Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson |
| 1994 | Mikal Gilmore | Shot in the Heart |
| 1993 | Edmund White | Genet |
| 1992 | Carol Brightman | Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World |
| 1991 | Philip Roth | Patrimony: A True Story |
| 1990 | Robert A. Caro | Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II |
| 1989 | Geoffrey C. Ward | A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt |
| 1988 | Richard Ellman | Oscar Wilde |
| 1987 | Donald R. Howard | Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World |
| 1986 | Theodore Rosengarten | Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter |
| 1985 | Leon Edel | Henry James: A Life |
| 1984 | Joseph Frank | Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 |
| 1983 | Joyce Johnson | Minor Characters |
| 1982 | No award listed | |
| 1981 | No award listed |
Poetry
| 2005 | Jack Gilbert | Refusing Heaven |
| 2004 | Adrienne Rich | The School Among the Ruins |
| 2003 | Susan Stewart | Columbarium |
| 2002 | B.H. Fairchild | Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest |
| 2001 | Albert Goldbarth | Saving Lives |
| 2000 | Judy Jordan | Carolina Ghost Woods |
| 1999 | Ruth Stone | Ordinary Words |
| 1998 | Marie Ponsot | The Bird Catcher |
| 1997 | Charles Wright | Black Zodiac |
| 1996 | Robert Hass | Sun Under Wood |
| 1995 | William Matthews | Time and Money |
| 1994 | Mark Rudman | Rider |
| 1993 | Mark Doty | My Alexandria |
| 1992 | Hayden Carruth | Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 |
| 1991 | Albert Goldbarth | Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology |
| 1990 | Amy Gerstler | Bitter Angel |
| 1989 | Rodney Jones | Transparent Gestures |
| 1988 | Donald Hall | That One Day |
| 1987 | C.K. Williams | Flesh and Blood |
| 1986 | Edward Hirsch | Wild Gratitude |
| 1955 | Louise Gluck | The Triumph of Achilles |
| 1984 | Sharon Olds | The Dead and the Living |
| 1983 | James Merrill | The Changing Light at Sandover |
| 1982 | Katha Pollitt | Antarctic Traveler |
| 1981 | A.R. Ammons | A Coast of Trees |
Criticism
| 2005 | William Logan | The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin |
| 2004 | Patrick Neate | Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet |
| 2003 | Rebecca Solnit | River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West |
| 2002 | William H. Gass | Tests of Time |
| 2001 | Martin Amis | The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 |
| 2000 | Cynthia Ozick | Quarrel & Quandary |
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- 2005: Bill Henderson, Founder of Pushcart Press.
- 2004: Louis D. Rubin, Jr., founder of Algonquin Press and the author and editor of over 50 books.
- 2003: Scott McLemee
- 2002: Maureen N. McLane
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- 2004: David Orr, a contributor to the New York Times Book Review and Poetry magazine.
- 2003: Studs Terkel
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