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National Book Critics Circle Award (awards)

This award was given to 884 books.

  1. The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

    The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

    by Joyce Carol Oates, Greg Johnson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  2. Edith Wharton

    Edith Wharton

    by Hermione Lee

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  3. Ralph Ellison

    Ralph Ellison

    A Biography

    by Arnold Rampersad

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  4. A Life of Picasso
    Life of Picasso: Book 1

    A Life of Picasso

    Volume I: 1881-1906

    by John Richardson, Marilyn McCully

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  5. Thomas Hardy

    Thomas Hardy

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  6. A Life of Picasso
    Life of Picasso: Book 3

    A Life of Picasso

    The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

    by John Richardson

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  7. The World Is What It Is

    The World Is What It Is

    The Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

    by Patrick French

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  8. Stanley

    Stanley

    The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

    by Tim Jeal

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  9. Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

    Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints

    Essays

    by Joan Ross Acocella

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  10. Once Upon a Quinceanera

    Once Upon a Quinceanera

    Coming of Age in the USA

    by Julia Alvarez

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  11. The Terror Dream

    The Terror Dream

    by Susan Faludi

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  12. Coltrane

    Coltrane

    The Story of a Sound

    by Ben Ratliff

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  13. The Rest Is Noise

    The Rest Is Noise

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    by Alex Ross

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
  14. Sacred Games

    Sacred Games

    by Vikram Chandra

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  15. In the Country of Men

    In the Country of Men

    by Hisham Matar

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  16. The Gravedigger's Daughter

    The Gravedigger's Daughter

    by Joyce Carol Oates

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  17. The Shadow Catcher

    The Shadow Catcher

    by Marianne Wiggins

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  18. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

    by Junot Díaz

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
    Rank: 1
  19. American Transcendentalism: A History

    American Transcendentalism: A History

    by Philip F. Gura

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  20. What Hath God Wrought
    Oxford History of the United States: Book 5

    What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  21. Legacy of Ashes

    Legacy of Ashes

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  22. The World Without Us

    The World Without Us

    by Alan Weisman

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  23. Medical Apartheid

    Medical Apartheid

    The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present

    by Harriet A. Washington

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
  24. Modern Life

    Modern Life

    Poems

    by Matthea Harvey

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  25. Sleeping and Waking

    Sleeping and Waking

    by Michael O'Brien

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  26. Ballad of Jamie Allan

    Ballad of Jamie Allan

    by Tom Pickard

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  27. New Poems

    New Poems

    by Tadeusz Różewicz

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  28. Elegy: Poems

    Elegy: Poems

    by Mary Jo Bang

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
  29. The Afterlife

    The Afterlife

    A Memoir

    by Donald Antrim

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  30. Fun Home

    Fun Home

    A Family Tragicomic

    by Alison Bechdel

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  31. Strange Piece of Paradise

    Strange Piece of Paradise

    by Terri Jentz

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
    Finalist
  32. The Lost

    The Lost

    A Search for Six of Six Million

    by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
  33. Stuart

    Stuart

    A Life Backwards

    by Alexander Masters

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoirs
    Finalist
  34. The Most Famous Man in America

    The Most Famous Man in America

    The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

    by Debby Applegate

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  35. At Canaan's Edge
    America in the King Years: Book 3

    At Canaan's Edge

    America in the King Years, 1965-68

    by Taylor Branch

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  36. Flaubert: A Biography

    Flaubert: A Biography

    by Frederick Brown

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  37. A Sense of the World

    A Sense of the World

    How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler

    by Jason Roberts

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  38. James Tiptree, Jr.

    James Tiptree, Jr.

    The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

    by Julie Phillips

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
  39. While Europe Slept

    While Europe Slept

    How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within

    by Bruce Bawer

    Year: 2006
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  40. Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

    Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays

    by Frederick Crews

    Year: 2006
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  41. Breaking the Spell

    Breaking the Spell

    Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

    by Daniel C. Dennett

    Year: 2006
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  42. On Looking: Essays

    On Looking: Essays

    by Lia Purpura

    Year: 2006
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  43. Everything That Rises

    Everything That Rises

    A Book of Convergences

    by Lawrence Weschler

    Year: 2006
    Category: Criticism
  44. Half of a Yellow Sun

    Half of a Yellow Sun

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  45. What is the What

    What is the What

    The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

    by Dave Eggers

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  46. The Lay of the Land
    Bascombe Trilogy

    The Lay of the Land

    by Richard Ford

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  47. The Road

    The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  48. The Inheritance of Loss

    The Inheritance of Loss

    by Kiran Desai

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
  49. The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

    The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

    by Patrick Cockburn

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  50. The Girls Who Went Away

    The Girls Who Went Away

    The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade

    by Ann Fessler

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist

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