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National Book Critics Circle Award (awards)

This award was given to 874 books.

  1. Half a Life

    Half a Life

    by Darin Strauss

    Year: 2010
    Category: Autobiography
  2. Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

    Crossing Mandelbaum Gate

    Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-78

    by Kai Bird

    Year: 2010
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  3. The Autobiography of an Execution

    The Autobiography of an Execution

    by David R. Dow

    Year: 2010
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  4. Hitch-22

    Hitch-22

    A Memoir

    by Christopher Hitchens

    Year: 2010
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  5. Hiroshima in the Morning

    Hiroshima in the Morning

    by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto

    Year: 2010
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  6. The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

    The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham

    A Biography

    by Selina Hastings

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  7. The Killing of Crazy Horse

    The Killing of Crazy Horse

    by Thomas Powers

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  8. Charlie Chan

    Charlie Chan

    The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History

    by Yunte Huang

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  9. Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends

    Simon Wiesenthal: The Life and Legends

    by Tom Segev

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  10. How to Live

    How to Live

    A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    by Sarah Bakewell

    Year: 2010
    Category: Biography
  11. The Professor and Other Writings

    The Professor and Other Writings

    by Terry Castle

    Year: 2010
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  12. The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence

    The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence

    by Susie Linfield

    Year: 2010
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  13. Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir

    Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir

    by Ander Monson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  14. The Possessed

    The Possessed

    Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them

    by Elif Batuman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  15. Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics

    Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics

    Russia, Poland, and the West

    by Clare Cavanagh

    Year: 2010
    Category: Criticism
  16. To the End of the Land

    To the End of the Land

    by David Grossman

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  17. Comedy in a Minor Key

    Comedy in a Minor Key

    by Hans Keilson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  18. Skippy Dies

    Skippy Dies

    by Paul Murray

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  19. A Visit From the Goon Squad

    A Visit From the Goon Squad

    by Jennifer Egan

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  20. Freedom

    Freedom

    by Jonathan Franzen

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: Finalist
  21. Nothing to Envy

    Nothing to Envy

    Ordinary Lives in North Korea

    by Barbara Demick

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  22. Empire of the Summer Moon

    Empire of the Summer Moon

    Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

    by S. C. Gwynne

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  23. Apollo's Angels

    Apollo's Angels

    A History of Ballet

    by Jennifer Homans

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  24. The Emperor of All Maladies

    The Emperor of All Maladies

    A Biography of Cancer

    by Siddhartha Mukherjee

    Year: 2010
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  25. The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Warmth of Other Suns

    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

    by Isabel Wilkerson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Nonfiction
  26. Nox

    Nox

    by Anne Carson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  27. The Eternal City

    The Eternal City

    Poems

    by Kathleen Graber

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  28. Lighthead

    Lighthead

    by Terrance Hayes

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  29. The Best of It

    The Best of It

    New and Selected Poems

    by Kay Ryan

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  30. One with Others

    One with Others

    by C. D. Wright

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  31. Lark and Termite

    Lark and Termite

    by Jayne Anne Phillips

    Year: 2009
    Finalist
  32. Live Through This

    Live Through This

    A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters

    by Debra Gwartney

    Year: 2009
    Category: autobiography
    Finalist
  33. Lit

    Lit

    A Memoir

    by Mary Karr

    Year: 2009
    Category: Autobiography
    Finalist
  34. Enemies of the People

    Enemies of the People

    My Family's Journey to America

    by Kati Marton

    Year: 2009
    Category: Autobiography
    Finalist
  35. City Boy

    City Boy

    by Edmund White

    Year: 2009
    Category: Autobiography
    Finalist
  36. Somewhere Towards the End

    Somewhere Towards the End

    A Memoir

    by Diana Athill

    Year: 2009
    Category: Autobiography
  37. Flannery

    Flannery

    A Life of Flannery O'Connor

    by Brad Gooch

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  38. Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

    by Benjamin Moser

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  39. Bitter Spring

    Bitter Spring

    A Life of Ignazio Silone

    by Stanislao G. Pugliese

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  40. Passing Strange

    Passing Strange

    A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line

    by Martha A. Sandweiss

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  41. Cheever

    Cheever

    A Life

    by Blake Bailey

    Year: 2009
    Category: Biography
  42. Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

    Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry

    by Stephen Burt

    Year: 2009
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  43. Dancing in the Dark

    Dancing in the Dark

    A Cultural History of the Great Depression

    by Morris Dickstein

    Year: 2009
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  44. Heroes and Villains: Have Comic Books Killed the Movies? (And Other Essays on Pop Culture)

    Heroes and Villains: Have Comic Books Killed the Movies? (And Other Essays on Pop Culture)

    by David Hajdu

    Year: 2009
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  45. Perfecting Sound Forever

    Perfecting Sound Forever

    An Aural History of Recorded Music

    by Greg Milner

    Year: 2009
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  46. Notes from No Man's Land

    Notes from No Man's Land

    American Essays

    by Eula Biss

    Year: 2009
    Category: Criticism
  47. American Salvage

    American Salvage

    by Bonnie Jo Campbell

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  48. The Book of Night Women

    The Book of Night Women

    by Marlon James

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  49. Blame

    Blame

    by Michelle Huneven

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  50. The Hindus

    The Hindus

    An Alternative History

    by Wendy Doniger

    Year: 2009
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist

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