1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner
![Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580866711-306-image-3.jpg)
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of…
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist
![Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581026648-6036-image-3.jpg)
Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans
Alan Riding
![House](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581009968-4662-image-3.jpg)
House
Tracy Kidder
![The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581036925-6884-image-3.jpg)
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
![The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580966590-2544-image-3.jpg)