National Book Critics Circle Award

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Problem of Slavery in the Age of EmancipationDavid Brion DavisA conclusion to the historian's three-volume history of slavery in Western culture covers the influential Haitian revolution, the complex significance of colonization, and the less-recognized importance of freed slaves to abolition....Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistCapital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur GoldhammerThomas PikettyAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them FreeHector TobarAmazonThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth KolbertAmazonThe Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a ...

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerDreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesAn explosive true account of addiction, marketing and the making of an epidemic weaves together the story of Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, while, at the same time, a massive influx of black tar heroin took the county by storm through an alm...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGhettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill LeovyAmazonGive Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in AmericaAri BermanAmazonSPQR: A History of RomeMary BeardAmazonWhat the Eye Hears: A History of Tap DancingBrian SeibertAmazon