The National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews pupblished in English.

Fiction | Non-Fiction
Fiction
	2006	The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
	2005	The March by E.L. Doctorow
	2004	Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
	2003	Known World, by Edward P. Jones
	2002	Atonement by Ian McEwan
	2001	Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
	2000	Being Dead by Jim Crace
	1999	Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
	1998	The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
	1997	The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
	1996	Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
	1995	Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
	1994	The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
	1993	A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
	1992	All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
	1991	A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
	1990	Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
	1989	Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
	1988	The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
	1987	The Counterlife by Philip Roth
	1986	Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
	1985	The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
	1984	Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
	1983	Ironweed by William Kennedy
	1982	George Mills by Stanley Elkin
	1981	Rabbit is Rich by John Updike
Non-Fiction
	2006	Rough Crossings by Simon Scharma
	2005	Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich
	2004	The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch
	2003	Sons of Mississippi, byPaul Hendrickson
	2002	A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power
	2001	Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker
	2000	Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover
	1999	Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner
	1998	We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch
	1997	The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman
	1996	Bad Land by Jonathan Raban
	1995	A Civil Action by Jonathon Harr
	1994	The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas
	1993	The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax
	1992	Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean
	1991	Backlash: The Undeclared War Against America Women by Susan Faludi
	1990	The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele
	1989	The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris
	1988	Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
	1987	The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
	1986	War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War by John W. Dower
	1985	Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas
	1984	Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson
	1983	The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersch
	1982	The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro
	1981	The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould