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National Book Critics Circle Award

Together, over 700 book reviewers choose the National Book Critics Circle Awards, which are offered in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. Also awarded each year are the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, which is given by the NBCC to one of its members.

Awards for 2011

1. National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography

   Publisher Comments: When piano prodigy Norma Herr was healthy, she was the most vibrant personality in the room. But as her schizophrenic episodes became more frequent and more dangerous, she withdrew into a world that neither of her daughters could make any sense of. After... (read more)

2. National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry

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      Space, in Chains (Lannan Literary Selections)

      Laura KasischkeLaura Kasischke 9781556593338
   Publisher Comments: "Kasischke's intelligence is most apparent in her syntactic control and pace, the way she gauges just when to make free verse speed up, or stop short, or slow down." The New York Times Book Review "Kasischke's poems are powered by a skillful use of... (read more)

3. National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

   Publisher Comments: *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice**A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on... (read more)

4. National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography

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      George F. Kennan: An American Life

      John Lewis GaddisJohn Lewis Gaddis 9781594203121
   Publisher Comments: Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Biography Widely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War historian... (read more)

5. National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

   Publisher Comments: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to... (read more)

6. National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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      Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories

      Edith PearlmanEdith Pearlman 9780982338292
   Synopsis: In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these 21 vintage selected stories and 13 scintillating new ones take us around the world... (read more)

Past Winners

1. Fiction 2010

   
   A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan

   

   Used Hardcover $13.95
   

2. Nonfiction 2010

   
   The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic... Isabel Wilkerson

   

   Used Hardcover $10.95
   

3. Poetry 2010

   
   One with Others: [A Little Book of... C. D. Wright New Trade Paper $18.00
   

4. Fiction 2009

   
   Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

   

   New Trade Paper $16.00
   

5. Nonfiction 2009

   
   The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic... Richard Holmes

   

   Used Trade Paper $10.00
   

6. Poetry 2009

   
   Versed (Wesleyan Poetry) Rae Armantrout Used Trade Paper $8.00
   

7. Fiction 2008

   
   2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano

   

   Used Hardcover $12.95
   

8. Nonfiction 2008

   
   The Forever War Dexter Filkins

   

   Used Hardcover $9.95
   

9. Poetry 2008

   
   Sleeping It Off in Rapid City:... August Kleinzahler

   

   Used Hardcover $12.50
   

10. Poetry 2008

    
    Half of the World in Light: New and... Juan Felipe Herrera New Trade Paper $24.95
    

11. Nonfiction 2007

    
    Medical Apartheid: The Dark History... Harriet A. Washington Used Trade Paper $9.00
    

12. Poetry 2007

    
    Elegy: Poems Mary Jo Bang

    

    Used Hardcover $12.50
    

13. Fiction 2006

    
    The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel Kiran Desai

    

    Used Trade Paper $2.95
    

14. Nonfiction 2006

    
    Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves... Simon Schama Used Trade Paper $9.00
    

15. Poetry 2006

    
    Tom Thomson in Purgatory Troy Jollimore New Trade Paper $15.25
    

16. Nonfiction 2005

    
    Voices From Chernobyl (05 Edition) Svetlana Alexievich Used Hardcover $12.00
    

17. Poetry 2005

    
    Refusing Heaven Jack Gilbert Used Hardcover $17.50
    

18. Nonfiction 2004

    
    The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch Used Hardcover $22.00
    

19. Poetry 2004

    
    The School Among the Ruins: Poems... Adrienne Rich Used Trade Paper $7.95
    

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