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The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, established in 1976, [1] is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English." [2] Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.

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Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories." [3]

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers." [4] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March. [3]

Recipients

National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction winners and finalists
YearAuthorTitleResultRef.
1975

R. W. B. Lewis

Edith Wharton: A Biography

Winner

[5]
1976

Maxine Hong Kingston

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts

Winner

[6]
George Dangerfield The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish RelationsFinalist [6]
Alex Haley Roots
Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo World of Our Fathers
Richard Kluger Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality
1977

Walter Jackson Bate

Samuel Johnson

Winner

[7]
Michael Herr Dispatches Finalist [7]
David McCullough The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
John McPhee Coming Into the Country
Carl Sagan The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
1978

Maureen Howard

Facts of Life

Winner

[8]

Garry Wills

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

Barbara W. Tuchman A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Finalist [8]
Theodore H. White In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
Barrington Moore Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
Sissela Bok Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
A. Scott Berg Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Alfred Kazin New York Jew
Anne Hollander Seeing Through Clothes
Peter Matthiessen The Snow Leopard
1979

Telford Taylor

Munich: The Price of Peace

Winner

[9]
Tom Wolfe The Right Stuff Finalist [9]
Joan Didion The White Album
Edward Hoagland African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain
1980

Ronald Steel

Walter Lippmann and the American Century

Winner

[10]
Jean Strouse Alice James: A BiographyFinalist [10]
Maxine Hong Kingston China Men
John Boswell Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century
Justin D. Kaplan Walt Whitman: A Life
1981

Stephen Jay Gould

The Mismeasure of Man

Winner

[11]
James Fallows National DefenseFinalist [11]
T.J. Jackson Lears No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
Dumas Malone The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six
Erving Goffman Forms of Talk
1982

Robert Caro

The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson

Winner

[12]
George F. Kennan The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic AgeFinalist [12]
Jonathan Schell The Fate of the Earth
Daniel Lawrence O’KeefeStolen Lightning
Kate Simon Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
1983

Seymour M. Hersh

The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House

Winner

[13]
Roger Rosenblatt Children of WarFinalist [13]
William W. Warner Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman
Theodore Draper Present History: On Nuclear War, Detente and Other
David S. Landes Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
1984

Freeman Dyson

Weapons and Hope

Winner

[14]
David Wyman The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941–1945 Finalist [14]
John Edgar Wideman Brothers and Keepers
Robert Darnton The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
Evan Connell Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Big Horn
1985

J. Anthony Lukas

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families

Winner

[15]
Tracy Kidder HouseFinalist [15]
Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Alan Riding Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans
Eva KeulsThe Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens
1986 Barry Lopez Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape

Winner

[16]
Bernard Bailyn Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the RevolutionFinalist [16]
Jonathan Evan MaslowBird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist’s Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil
John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
Marc Reisner Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
1987

Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Winner

[17]
Randy Shilts And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic Finalist [17]
James Miller Democracy Is in the Streets
Charles MeeThe Genius of the People
Stephen Jay Gould Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
1988

Taylor Branch

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63

Winner

[18]
James M. McPherson Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era Finalist [18]
Neil Sheehan A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
Jane Kramer Europeans
Eric Foner Reconstruction: America’s Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
1989

Michael Dorris

The Broken Cord

Winner

[19]
Tracy Kidder Among SchoolchildrenFinalist [19]
Barbara Ehrenreich Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
David Fromkin A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
Amy Wilentz The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier
1990

Shelby Steele

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America

Winner

[20]
Mike Davis City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Finalist [20]
Alma Guillermoprieto Samba
O.B. HardisonDisappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century
Kevin Phillips The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
1991

Susan Faludi

Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women

Winner

[21]
Thomas Geoghegan Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back Finalist [21]
Melissa Fay Greene Praying for Sheetrock
Jonathan Kozol Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
Dennis Overbye Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
1992

Norman Maclean

Young Men and Fire

Winner

[22]
Michael D. Coe Breaking the Maya CodeFinalist [22]
Donald Katz Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
Nancy Scheper-Hughes Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Edward O. Wilson The Diversity of Life
1993

Alan Lomax

The Land Where the Blues Began

Winner

[23]
Rosemary Mahoney Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of AgeFinalist [23]
George B. Schaller The Last Panda
Russ Rymer Genie: An Abused Child’s Flight From Silence
David Remnick Lenin’s Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
1994

Lynn H. Nicholas

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War

Winner

[24]
Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence ThomasFinalist [24]
Abraham Verghese My Own Country: A Doctor's Story
Sherwin Nuland How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
John Demos The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America
1995

Jonathan Harr

A Civil Action

Winner

[25]
Nicholas Basbanes A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books Finalist [25]
Madeleine Blais In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
Fox Butterfield All God’s Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
Lawrence Weschler Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder
1996

Jonathan Raban

Bad Land: An American Romance

Winner

[26]
David Denby Great BooksFinalist [26]
Daniel Goldhagen Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust
Richard Kluger Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
Bernard Lewis The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years
1997

Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Winner

[27]
Jon Krakauer Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster Finalist [27]
James Kugel The Bible as It Was
Pauline Maier American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
Stephen Pinker How the Mind Works
1998

Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

Winner

[28]
Adam Hochschild King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Finalist [28]
Ira Berlin Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Roy Porter The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
1999

Jonathan Weiner

Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior

Winner

[29]
Jane Brox Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family HistoryFinalist [29]
John W. Dower Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Patricia Hampl I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
Jean-Paul Kauffmann The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint Helena
2000

Ted Conover

Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing

Winner

Fred Anderson Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766Finalist
Frances FitzGerald Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
Laurie Garrett Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
Alice Kaplan The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
2001

Nicholson Baker

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper

Winner

[30]
Nina Bernstein The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster CareFinalist [30]
Jan T. Gross Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Laura Hillenbrand Seabiscuit: An American Legend
Sam RobertsThe Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
2002

Samantha Power

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Winner

[31]
Chris Hedges War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning Finalist [31]
William Langewiesche American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
Richard Rodriguez Brown: The Last Discovery of America
Gaby Wood Edison’s Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
2003

Paul Hendrickson

Sons of Mississippi

Winner

[32]
Caroline Alexander The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyFinalist [33]
Anne Applebaum Gulag
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age
William T. Vollmann Rising Up and Rising Down
2004

Diarmaid MacCulloch

The Reformation: A History

Winner

[34]
Kevin Boyle Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age Finalist [34]
Edward Conlon Blue Blood
David Shipler The Working Poor: Invisible in America
Timothy Tyson Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
2005

Svetlana Alexievich

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Winner

[35]
Robert Fisk The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East Finalist [35]
Ellen Meloy Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
Caroline Moorehead Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
Anthony Shadid Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
2006

Simon Schama

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution

Winner

[36]
Patrick Cockburn The Occupation: War and Resistance in IraqFinalist [36]
Anne Fessler The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
Michael Pollan The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Sandy TolanThe Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
2007

Harriet A. Washington

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present

Winner

[37] [38] [39]

Philip Gura

American Transcendentalism

Finalist

[38]

Tim Weiner

Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA

Alan Weisman

The World Without Us

Daniel Walker Howe

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815–1848

2008

Dexter Filkins

The Forever War

Winner [40]

George C. Herring

From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776

Finalist [40] [41]

Jane Mayer

The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals

Drew Gilpin Faust

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

Allan Lichtman

White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement

2009

Richard Holmes

The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

Winner [42] [43] [44]

Greg Grandin

Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City

Finalist [42]

William T. Vollmann

Imperial

Tracy Kidder

Strength in What Remains

Wendy Doniger

The Hindus: An Alternative History

2010

Isabel Wilkerson

The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

Winner [45] [46]

Jennifer Homans

Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet

Finalist

[45]

S.C. Gwynne

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American

Barbara Demick

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea

Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

2011

Maya Jasanoff

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Winner

[47] [48]

Amanda Foreman

A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Finalist

[49] [47] [48]

John Jeremiah Sullivan

Pulphead: Essays

James Gleick

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

Adam Hochschild

To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918

2012

Andrew Solomon

Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Winner

[50] [51]

Katherine Boo

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Finalist

[50] [52] [53]

Steve Coll

Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power

David Quammen

Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

Jim Holt

Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story

2013

Sheri Fink

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Winner

[54] [55]

Lawrence Wright

Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Finalist

[54] [56]

David Finkel

Thank You for Your Service

George Packer

The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America

Kevin Cullen and Shelley Murphy

Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice

2014

David Brion Davis

The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

Winner

[57] [58]

Thomas Piketty with Arthur Goldhammer (trans.)

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Finalist

[57] [59]

Hector Tobar

Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free

Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Peter Finn and Petra Couvee

The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book

2015

Sam Quinones

Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic

Winner

[60]

Jill Leovy

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Finalist

[60]

Ari Berman

Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America

Mary Beard

SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

Brian Seibert

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

2016

Matthew Desmond

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

Winner [61]

Jane Mayer

Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right

Finalist [61]

Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War

Ibram X. Kendi

Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America

John Edgar Wideman

Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

2017

Frances FitzGerald

The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

Winner

[62] [63] [64]

Adam Rutherford

A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

Finalist

[65] [62]

Kapka Kassabova

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

Jack Davis

Gulf: The Making of An American Sea

Masha Gessen

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

2018

Steve Coll

Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Winner

[66] [67] [68] [69]

Lawrence Wright

God Save Texas: A Journey into the Soul of the Lone Star State

Finalist

[66]

Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Francisco Cantú

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border

Adam Winkler

We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

2019

Patrick Radden Keefe

Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

Winner

[70] [71]

Kate Brown

Manual for Survival: A Chernobyl Guide to the Future

Finalist

[70]

Rachel Louise Snyder

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

Walt Odets

Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men's Lives

Peter Hessler

The Buried: An Archaeology of the Egyptian Revolution

2020

Tom Zoellner

Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire

Winner

[72] [73] [74]

Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent

Finalist

[73]

James Shapiro

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future

Sarah Smarsh

She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs

Walter Johnson

The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States

2021

Clint Smith

How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America

Winner [75]

Patrick Radden Keefe

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Finalist

[76] [77] [78]

Rebecca Solnit

Orwell’s Roses

Joshua Prager

The Family Roe: An American Story

Sam Quinones

The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

2022

Isaac Butler

The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act

Winner [79]

Kelly Lytle Hernández

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Finalist

[80]

Joseph Osmundson

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Annie Proulx

Fen, Bog & Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis

Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

2023

Roxanna Asgarian

We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Winner [81]

Kerry Howley

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

Finalist

[82]

Dina Nayeri

Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn’t Enough

Jeff Sharlet

The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War

Christina Sharpe

Ordinary Notes

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