Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afganistan Steve Coll Amazon 2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America Frances FitzGerald Amazon 2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City Matthew Desmond Amazon 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic Sam Quinones Amazon 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation David Brion Davis Amazon 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Five Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged Hospital Sheri Fink Amazon 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity Andrew Solomon Amazon 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War Maya Jasanoff Amazon 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Amazon 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science Richard Holmes Amazon 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Forever War Dexter Filkins Amazon 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Harriet Washington Amazon 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Simon Schama Amazon 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster Svetlana Alexievich Amazon 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Reformation: A History Diarmaid MacCulloch Amazon 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy Paul Hendrickson Amazon 2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide Samantha Power Amazon 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Nicholson Baker Amazon 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Ted Conover Amazon 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior Jonathan Weiner Amazon 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda Philip Gourevich Amazon 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down Anne Fadiman Amazon 1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Bad Land Jonathan Raban Amazon 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction A Civil Action Jonathan Harr Amazon 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Rape of Europa Lynn Nicholas Amazon 1993 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax Amazon 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean Amazon 1991 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women Susan Faludi Amazon 1990 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America Shelby Steele Amazon 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Broken Cord Michael Dorris Amazon 1988 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 Taylor Branch Amazon 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhode Amazon 1986 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Arctic Dreams Barry Lopez Amazon 1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families J. Anthony Lukas Amazon 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Weapons and Hope Freeman Dyson Amazon 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House Seymour M. Hersh Amazon 1982 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson Robert A. Caro Amazon 1981 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Mismeasure of Man Stephen Jay Gould Amazon 1980 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Walter Lippman and the American Century Ronald Steel Amazon 1979 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Munich: The Price of Peace Telford Taylor Amazon 1978 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Facts of Life Maureen Howard Amazon 1977 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Samuel Johnson W. Jackson Bate Amazon 1976 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts Maxine Hong Kingston Amazon 1975 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Edith Wharton: A Biography R.W.B. Lewis Amazon