Books

National Book Critics Circle Award (awards)

This award was given to 884 books.


  1. The Path Between the Seas

    The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

    by David G. McCullough

    Year: 1977
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  2. Coming into the Country

    by John McPhee

    Year: 1977
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  3. The Dragons of Eden

    Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

    by Carl Sagan

    Year: 1977
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  4. Houseboat Days: Poems

    by John Ashbery

    Year: 1977
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  5. Out-Of-The-Body Travel

    by Stanley Plumly

    Year: 1977
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  6. American Poets Continuum

    The Fuhrer Bunker

    A Cycle of Poems in Progress

    by W. D. Snodgrass

    Year: 1977
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  7. Lucky Life

    by Gerald Stern

    Year: 1977
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  8. Day by Day

    by Robert Lowell

    Year: 1977
    Category: Poetry
    Rank: 1
  9. The Uses of Enchantment

    The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales

    by Bruno Bettelheim

    Year: 1976
    Category: Criticism
  10. Kicked a Building Lately?

    by Ada Louise Huxtable

    Year: 1976
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  11. Representations : Essays on Literature and Society

    by Steven Marcus

    Year: 1976
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  12. Arnold Schoenberg

    by Charles Rosen

    Year: 1976
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  13. Letters of E. B. White

    by E. B. White

    Year: 1976
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  14. October Light

    by John Champlin Gardner

    Year: 1976
    Category: Fiction
  15. Speedboat

    by Renata Adler

    Year: 1976
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  16. Details of a Sunset and Other Stories.

    by Vladimir Nabokov

    Year: 1976
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  17. Bloodshed and Three Novellas

    by Cynthia Ozick

    Year: 1976
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  18. The Easter Parade

    by Richard Yates

    Year: 1976
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  19. The Woman Warrior

    Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts

    by Maxine Hong Kingston

    Year: 1976
    Category: General Non-Fiction
  20. The Damnable Question

    A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations

    by George Dangerfield

    Year: 1976
    Category: General Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  21. Roots

    by Alex Haley

    Year: 1976
    Category: General Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  22. World of Our Fathers

    The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made

    by Irving Howe, Kenneth Libo

    Year: 1976
    Category: General Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  23. Simple Justice

    The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality

    by Richard Kluger

    Year: 1976
    Category: General Non-Fiction
    Finalist
  24. The Names of the Lost

    by Philip Levine

    Year: 1976
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  25. Geography III: Poems

    by Elizabeth Bishop

    Year: 1976
    Category: Poetry
  26. The Gates

    Poems

    by Muriel Rukeyser

    Year: 1976
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  27. The mind-reader : new poems

    by Richard Wilbur

    Year: 1976
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  28. Searching for the Ox

    by Louis Aston Marantz Simpson

    Year: 1976
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  29. The Great War and Modern Memory

    by Paul Fussell

    Year: 1975
    Category: Criticism
  30. Ragtime

    by E. L. Doctorow

    Year: 1975
    Category: Fiction
  31. Edith Wharton

    A Biography

    by R. W. B. Lewis

    Year: 1975
    Category: General Nonfiction
  32. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

    by John Ashbery

    Year: 1975
    Category: Poetry

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