Books

National Book Critics Circle Award (awards)

This award was given to 884 books.


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

    by Joyce Carol Oates, Greg Johnson

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

    by Hermione Lee

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  3. Ralph Ellison

    A Biography

    by Arnold Rampersad

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  4. 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

    by Claire Tomalin

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  6. 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 Authorized Biography of V. S. Naipaul

    by Patrick French

    Year: 2007
    Category: Biography
  8. Stanley

    The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

    by Tim Jeal

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

    Essays

    by Joan Ross Acocella

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

    Coming of Age in the USA

    by Julia Alvarez

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

    by Susan Faludi

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
    Finalist
  12. Coltrane

    The Story of a Sound

    by Ben Ratliff

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

    Listening to the Twentieth Century

    by Alex Ross

    Year: 2007
    Category: Criticism
  14. Sacred Games

    by Vikram Chandra

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

    by Hisham Matar

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

    by Joyce Carol Oates

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

    by Marianne Wiggins

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

    by Junot Díaz

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

    by Philip F. Gura

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  20. 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

    The History of the CIA

    by Tim Weiner

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

    by Alan Weisman

    Year: 2007
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  23. 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

    Poems

    by Matthea Harvey

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

    by Michael O'Brien

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

    by Tom Pickard

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  27. New Poems

    by Tadeusz Różewicz

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

    by Mary Jo Bang

    Year: 2007
    Category: Poetry
  29. The Afterlife

    A Memoir

    by Donald Antrim

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

    A Family Tragicomic

    by Alison Bechdel

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

    by Terri Jentz

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

    A Search for Six of Six Million

    by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn

    Year: 2006
    Category: Autobiography/Memoir
  33. Stuart

    A Life Backwards

    by Alexander Masters

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

    The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

    by Debby Applegate

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  35. 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

    by Frederick Brown

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
    Finalist
  37. 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.

    The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon

    by Julie Phillips

    Year: 2006
    Category: Biography
  39. 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

    by Frederick Crews

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

    Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

    by Daniel C. Dennett

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

    by Lia Purpura

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

    A Book of Convergences

    by Lawrence Weschler

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

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

    The Autobiography of Valentino Achak Deng

    by Dave Eggers

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  46. Bascombe Trilogy

    The Lay of the Land

    by Richard Ford

    Year: 2006
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  47. The Road

    by Cormac McCarthy

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

    by Kiran Desai

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

    by Patrick Cockburn

    Year: 2006
    Category: General Nonfiction
    Finalist
  50. 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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