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National Book Award for Nonfiction

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The National Book Award is awarded by the National Book Foundation. Categories include Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Young People's Literature, and the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters.

  1. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life,...
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National Book Award for Nonfiction

Publisher Comments: From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more)

Awards for 2012

  1. National Book Award for Nonfiction

    Publisher Comments: From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this... (read more)

Past Winners

  1. 2011

    The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
    Used Hardcover $14.00
  2. 2010

    Just Kids
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  3. 2009

    The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of... New Hardcover $45.00
  4. 2007

  5. 2006

    The Worst Hard Time: The Untold...
    Used Trade Paper $7.95
  6. 2005

    The Year of Magical Thinking
    Used Hardcover $5.50
  7. 2001

    The Noonday Demon Used Hardcover $8.50
  8. 2000

    In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy...
    Used Hardcover $10.95
  9. 1998

    Slaves in the Family Used Trade Paper $3.50
  10. 1997

    American Sphinx: The Character of... Used Trade Paper $6.50
  11. 1996

    An American Requiem: God, My Father,... Used Trade Paper $5.50
  12. 1994

    How We Die: Reflections on Life's...
    Used Trade Paper $5.95
  13. 1992

    Becoming a Man Half a Life Story
    Used Trade Paper $2.95
  14. 1991

    Freedom, Volume 1: Freedom in the... Used Hardcover $2.50
  15. 1990

    The House of Morgan: An American... Used Trade Paper $8.95
  16. 1989

    From Beirut to Jerusalem: Updated... Used Trade Paper $4.50
  17. 1984

    Andrew Jackson the Course of American V3 Used Trade Paper $10.95
  18. 1983

    China Alive in the Bitter Sea
    Used Trade Paper $2.50
  19. 1981

    China men Used Hardcover $1.00
  20. 1980

    The Right Stuff Used Trade Paper $7.95
  21. 1979

    The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature...
    Used Trade Paper $6.95
  22. 1978

    Winners & Losers New Trade Paper $23.95

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