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Current and historical winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award, with links to further information at BookBrowse.

National Book Critics Circle Award
Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry.
Current and Previous Award Winners:
2012
2011
2010
2009
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002

2012

Binocular Vision

NBCC Award for Fiction:
Binocular Vision  by  Edith Pearlman

Liberty's Exiles

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Liberty's Exiles  by  Maya Jasanoff

George F. Kennan

NBCC Award for Biography:
George F. Kennan  by  John Lewis Gaddis

The Memory Palace

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
The Memory Palace  by  Mira Bartok

2011

A Visit from the Goon Squad

NBCC Award for Fiction:
A Visit from the Goon Squad  by  Jennifer Egan

The Warmth of Other Suns

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Warmth of Other Suns  by  Isabel Wilkerson

How to Live

NBCC Award for Biography:
How to Live  by  Sarah Bakewell

Half a Life

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Half a Life  by  Darin Strauss

One With Others

NBCC Award for Poetry:
One With Others  by  C.D. Wright

2010

Wolf Hall

NBCC Award for Fiction:
Wolf Hall  by  Hilary Mantel

The Age of Wonder

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Age of Wonder  by  Richard Holmes

Cheever

NBCC Award for Biography:
Cheever  by  Blake Bailey

Somewhere Towards the End

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Somewhere Towards the End  by  Diana Athill

Versed

NBCC Award for Poetry:
Versed  by  Rae Armantrout

2009

2666

NBCC Award for Fiction:
2666  by  Roberto Bolano

The Forever War

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Forever War  by  Dexter Filkins

The World Is What It Is

NBCC Award for Biography:
The World Is What It Is  by  Patrick French

My Father's Paradise

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
My Father's Paradise  by  Ariel Sabar

2007

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao  by  Junot Diaz

Medical Apartheid

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Medical Apartheid  by  Harriet A. Washington

Stanley

NBCC Award for Biography:
Stanley  by  Tim Jeal

Brother, I'm Dying

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Brother, I'm Dying  by  Edwidge Danticat

2006

The Inheritance of Loss

NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Inheritance of Loss  by  Kiran Desai

Rough Crossings

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Rough Crossings  by  Simon Schama

James Tiptree, Jr.

NBCC Award for Biography:
James Tiptree, Jr.  by  Julie Phillips

The Lost

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
The Lost  by  Daniel Mendelsohn

2005

The March

NBCC Award for Fiction:
The March  by  E.L. Doctorow

Voices from Chernobyl

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Voices from Chernobyl  by  Svetlana Alexievich

American Prometheus

NBCC Award for Biography:
American Prometheus  by  Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Them

NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Them  by  Francine du Plessix Gray

2004

Gilead

NBCC Award for Fiction:
Gilead  by  Marilynne Robinson

The Reformation

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
The Reformation  by  Diarmaid MacCulloch

De Kooning

NBCC Award for Biography:
De Kooning  by  Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan

2003

The Known World

NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Known World  by  Edward Jones

Sons of Mississippi

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
Sons of Mississippi  by  Paul Hendrickson

Khrushchev

NBCC Award for Biography:
Khrushchev  by  William Taubman

2002

Atonement

NBCC Award for Fiction:
Atonement  by  Ian McEwan

A Problem from Hell

NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
A Problem from Hell  by  Samantha Power

Charles Darwin

NBCC Award for Biography:
Charles Darwin  by  Janet Browne
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