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National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction

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 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. 2010

   
   A Visit from the Goon Squad Jennifer Egan

   

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2. 2009

   
   Wolf Hall Hilary Mantel

   

   Used Trade Paper $7.95
   

3. 2008

   
   2666: A Novel Roberto Bolano

   

   Used Hardcover $15.50
   

4. 2006

   
   The Inheritance of Loss: A Novel Kiran Desai

   

   Used Trade Paper $4.95
   

5. 2002

   
   Atonement Ian McEwan

   

   Used Trade Paper $1.95
   

6. 2000

   
   Being Dead Jim Crace

   

   Used Trade Paper $5.95
   

7. 1999

   
   Motherless Brooklyn Jonathan Lethem

   

   Used Trade Paper $4.50
   

8. 1998

   
   The Love of a Good Woman Alice Munro Used Trade Paper $4.50
   

9. 1997

   
   The Blue Flower Penelope Fitzgerald

   

   Used Trade Paper $2.95
   

10. 1995

    
    Mrs. Ted Bliss Stanley Elkin Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

11. 1993

    
    A Lesson Before Dying (Vintage... Ernest J Gaines

    

    Used Trade Paper $2.95
    

12. 1992

    
    All the Pretty Horses Cormac McCarthy Used Hardcover $10.95
    

13. 1988

    
    The Middleman and Other Stories Bharati Mukherjee

    

    Sale Trade Paper $6.98
    

14. 1987

    
    The Counterlife Philip Roth

    

    Used Trade Paper $7.50
    

15. 1986

    
    Kate Vaiden Reynolds Price Used Trade Paper $4.95
    

16. 1985

    
    The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler

    

    Used Mass Market $3.50
    

17. 1984

    
    Love Medicine Louise Erdrich

    

    Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

18. 1982

    
    George Mills Stanley Elkin Used Trade Paper $2.95
    

19. 1980

    
    The Transit of Venus Shirley Hazzard Used Trade Paper $4.50
    

20. 1979

    
    The Year of the French (New York... Thomas Flanagan Used Trade Paper $11.00
    

21. 1977

    
    Song of Solomon Toni Morrison

    

    Used Trade Paper $5.95
    

22. 1976

    
    October light John C Gardner Used Trade Paper $6.95
    

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