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National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

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 Nonfiction

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      Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage)

      Maya JasanoffMaya Jasanoff 9781400075478
   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)

Past Winners

1. 2010

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

   

   Used Hardcover $15.00
   

2. 2009

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

   

   Used Trade Paper $10.00
   

3. 2008

   
   The Forever War Dexter Filkins

   

   Used Hardcover $9.95
   

4. 2007

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

5. 2006

   
   Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves... Simon Schama Used Trade Paper $6.50
   

6. 2005

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

7. 2004

   
   The Reformation Diarmaid MacCulloch Used Hardcover $16.95
   

8. 2003

   
   Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race... Paul Hendrickson Used Trade Paper $3.95
   

9. 2001

   
   Double Fold: Libraries and the... Nicholson Baker Used Trade Paper $8.00
   

10. 2000

    
    Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Ted Conover

    

    Used Trade Paper $7.95
    

11. 1999

    
    Time, Love, Memory: A Great... Jonathan Weiner Used Trade Paper $6.95
    

12. 1998

    
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow... Philip Gourevitch

    

    Used Trade Paper $6.95
    

13. 1997

    
    The Spirit Catches You and You Fall... Anne Fadiman

    

    Used Trade Paper $6.50
    

14. 1996

    
    Bad Land: An American Romance Jonathan Raban Used Trade Paper $3.50
    

15. 1996

    
    A Civil Action Jonathan Harr

    

    Used Trade Paper $4.95
    

16. 1994

    
    The Rape of Europa: The Fate of... Lynn H Nicholas

    

    Used Trade Paper $9.00
    

17. 1993

    
    The Land Where the Blues Began Alan Lomax New Trade Paper $23.95
    

18. 1992

    
    Young Men and Fire Norman Maclean

    

    Used Trade Paper $3.95
    

19. 1991

    
    Backlash: The Undeclared War Against... Susan Faludi

    

    Used Trade Paper $4.95
    

20. 1990

    
    The Content of Our Character: A New... Shelby Steele

    

    Used Trade Paper $1.50
    

21. 1989

    
    Broken Cord TV Tie-I Michael Dorris Used Trade Paper $1.00
    

22. 1986

    
    War Without Mercy John W Dower Used Trade Paper $8.50
    

23. 1984

    
    Weapons and Hope Freeman Dyson Used Trade Paper $3.95
    

24. 1983

    
    Price of Power: Kissinger in the... Seymour M Hersh Used Trade Paper $5.50
    

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