Saturday, May 4

National Book Critics Circle Award

2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondA Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional le...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh NguyenAmazonStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. KendiAmazonWriting to Save a Life: The Louis Till FileJohn Edgar WidemanAma...
2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerHouse of Lords and CommonsIshion HutchinsonExquisite' (New Yorker), 'breathtaking' (Los Angeles Times), 'baroque and moon-lit' (Boston Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas when it recently appeared, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and bein...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistAt the Foundling HospitalRobert PinskyAmazonBlackacreMonica YounAmazonOlioTyehimba JessAmazonWorks and DaysBernadette MayerAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerPrairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls WilderCaroline FraserRevealing the grown-up story behind the most influential childhood epic of pioneer life, she also chronicles Wilder's tumultuous relationship with her journalist daughter, Rose Wilder Lane, setting the record straight regarding charges of ......Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistGorbachev: His Life and TimesWilliam TaubmanAmazonHoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary TimesKenneth WhyteAmazonThe Invention of Angela Carter: A BiographyEdmund GordonAmazonThe Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle CreekHoward MarkelAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerYou Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Trainwrecks, & Other Mixed MessagesCarina ChocanoWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR CRITICISM A FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY "If Hollywood's treatment of women leaves you wanting, you'll find good, heady company in You Play the Girl."—ELLE A...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGuidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood and HistoryCamille T. DungyAmazonTell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty QuestionsValeria LuiselliAmazonThe Art of Death: Writing the Final StoryEdwidge DanticatAmazonThe Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake NewsKevin Yo...
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerImprovementJoan SilberReyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after a journey that took her to Turkey and around the world, admires her niece'...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistExit WestMohsin HamidAmazonSing, Unburied, SingJesmyn WardAmazonThe Ministry of Utomst HappinessArundhati RoyAmazonThe Ninth HourAlice McDermottAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape AmericaFrances FitzGeraldA history of the Evangelical movement in America traces the revivals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that rendered evangelism a dominant religious force, describing the rise and fall of denominations and how they influenced American agendas....Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our GenesAdam RutherfordAmazonBorder: A Journey to the Edge of EuropeKapka KassabovaAmazonThe Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed RussiaMasha GessenAmazonThe Gulf: The Making of An American SeaJack E. DavisAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerWhereasLayli Long SoldierWhereas confronts the coercive language of the United States government in its responses, treaties, and apologies to Native American peoples and tribes, and reflects that language in its officiousness and duplicity back on its perpetrators. Through a virtu...Amazon2017 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDirections for Use, translated by Steven Teref and Maja TerefAna RistovicAmazonEarthlingJames LongenbackAmazonFourth Person SingularNuar AlsadirAmazonThe Darkness of SnowFrank OrmsbyAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerFlash: The Making of Weegee the FamousChristopher BonanosThe first comprehensive biography of Weegee—photographer, “psychic,” ultimate New Yorker—from Christopher Bonanos, author of Instant: The Story of Polaroid. Arthur Fellig’s ability to arrive at a crime scene just as the cops did was so uncanny that he rena...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistInseperable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American HistoryYunte HuangAmazonNinety-Nine Glimpses of Princess MargaretCraig BrownAmazonThe Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World he CreatedJane LeavyAmazonThe Man in the Glass House: Philip Johnson, Architect of the Modern CenturyMark LamsterAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerFeel Free: EssaysZadie SmithWinner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Notable Book From Zadie Smith, one of the most beloved authors of her generation, a new collection of essays Since she burst spectacularly into view with her debut novel a...Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistIs It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017Robert ChristgauAmazonThe Reckonings: EssaysLacy M. JohnsonAmazonTo Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge KnightTerrance HayesAmazonTyrant: Shakespeare on PoliticsStephen GreenblattAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerMilkmanAnna BurnsMilkman is persistent, the word is spreading, and she is no longer in control . . ....Amazon2018 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistSlave Old Man, translated by Linda CoverdalePatrick ChamoiseauAmazonThe House of Broken AngelsLuis Alberto UrreaAmazonThe Largesse of the Sea MaidenDenis JohnsonAmazonThe Mars RoomRachel KushnerAmazon