2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration

Isabel Wilkerson

In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in…

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet

Jennifer Homans

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

S.C. Gwynne

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Barbara Demick

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

Siddhartha Mukherjee