# National Book Critics Circle Award

De National Book Critics Circle Award is een jaarlijkse Amerikaanse literaire prijs voor Engelstalige boeken, uitgereikt door de National Book Critics Circle (NBCC).

## Prijzen

De belangrijkste prijzen zijn: fictie, non-fictie, poëzie, memoires/autobiografie, biografie en kritiek (criticism). Alleen nieuw verschenen boeken komen in aanmerking, herdrukken en pocket-uitgaven niet. Ook vertalingen, korte verhalen en essay-bundels zijn kanshebbers. De NBCC-leden verkiezen 24 personen om de boeken te nomineren en te jureren.

## Fictie

* 2022 Ling Ma, Bliss Montage
* 2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
* 2020 Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet
* 2019 Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside
* 2018 Anna Burns, Milkman
* 2017 Joan Silber, Improvement
* 2016 Louise Erdrich, LaRose
* 2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout
* 2014 Marilynne Robinson, Lila
* 2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah
* 2012 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
* 2011 Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories
* 2010 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad
* 2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
* 2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666
* 2007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
* 2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss
* 2005 E.L. Doctorow The March
* 2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead
* 2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World
* 2002 Ian McEwan Atonement
* 2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz
* 2000 Jim Crace Being Dead
* 1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn
* 1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman
* 1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower
* 1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds
* 1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss
* 1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries
* 1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying
* 1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses
* 1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres
* 1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest
* 1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate
* 1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories
* 1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife
* 1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden
* 1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist
* 1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine
* 1983 William Kennedy Ironweed
* 1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills
* 1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich
* 1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit Of Venus
* 1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French
* 1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever
* 1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon
* 1976 John Gardner October Light
* 1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

## Non-fictie

* 2022 Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
* 2021 Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
* 2020 Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire
* 2019 Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
* 2018 Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan
* 2017 Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
* 2016 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
* 2015 Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
* 2014 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
* 2013 Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
* 2012 Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
* 2011 Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
* 2010 Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
* 2009 Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
* 2008 Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
* 2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present
* 2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings|Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
* 2005 Svetlana Aleksijevitsj Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
* 2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History
* 2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi
* 2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
* 2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
* 2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
* 1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
* 1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
* 1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
* 1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance
* 1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action
* 1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War
* 1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began
* 1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire
* 1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
* 1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
* 1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord
* 1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,
* 1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb
* 1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
* 1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
* 1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope
* 1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
* 1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol I
* 1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man
* 1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century
* 1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace
* 1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life
* 1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson
* 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
* 1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography

## Poëzie

* 2022 Cynthia Cruz, Hotel Oblivion
* 2021 Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets
* 2020 Francine J. Harris, Here Is The Sweet Hand
* 2019 Morgan Parker, Magical Negro
* 2018 Ada Limón, The Carrying
* 2017 Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
* 2016 Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons
* 2015 Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
* 2014 Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
* 2013 Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog
* 2012 D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
* 2011 Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains
* 2010 C.D. Wright, One With Others
* 2009 Rae Armantrout, Versed
* 2008 Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light en August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
* 2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy
* 2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory
* 2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven
* 2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins
* 2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium
* 2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
* 2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives
* 2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods
* 1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words
* 1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher
* 1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac
* 1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood
* 1995 William Matthews Time and Money
* 1994 Mark Rudman Rider
* 1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria
* 1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991
* 1991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology
* 1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel
* 1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures
* 1988 Donald Hall That One Day
* 1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood
* 1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude
* 1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles
* 1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living
* 1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover
* 1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler
* 1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees
* 1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise
* 1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere
* 1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman
* 1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day
* 1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III
* 1975 John Ashberry Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror

## Memoires/autobiografie

* 2022 Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir
* 2021 Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
* 2020 Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
* 2019 Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir
* 2018 Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home
* 2017 Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China
* 2016 Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
* 2015 Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir
* 2014 Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
* 2013 Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti
* 2012 Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
* 2011 Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace
* 2010 Darin Strauss, Half a Life
* 2009 Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End
* 2008 Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
* 2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying
* 2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
* 2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents

## Biografie

* 2022 Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
* 2021 Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
* 2020 Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World
* 2019 Josh Levin, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
* 2018 Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous
* 2017 Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
* 2016 Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
* 2015 Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
* 2014 John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
* 2013 Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World
* 2012 Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
* 2011 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
* 2010 Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne
* 2009 Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life
* 2008 Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
* 2007 Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
* 2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
* 2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
* 2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master
* 2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era
* 2002 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II
* 2001 Adam Sisman Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson
* 2000 Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
* 1999 Henry Wiencek The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White
* 1998 Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind
* 1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II
* 1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes
* 1995 Robert Polito Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson
* 1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart
* 1993 Edmund White Genet
* 1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World
* 1991 Philip Roth Patrimony: A True Story
* 1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II
* 1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt
* 1988 Richard Ellman Oscar Wilde
* 1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World
* 1986 Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
* 1985 Leon Edel Henry James: A Life
* 1984 Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859
* 1983 Joyce Johnson Minor Characters

## Kritiek (criticism)

* 2022 Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age
* 2021 Melissa Febos, Girlhood
* 2020 Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
* 2019 Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval
* 2018 Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays
* 2017 Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
* 2016 Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
* 2015 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
* 2014 Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz
* 2013 Franco Moretti, Distant Reading
* 2012 Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
* 2011 Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
* 2010 Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West
* 2009 Eula Biss, Notes from No Man’s Land: American Essays
* 2008 Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History
* 2007 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century
* 2006 Lawrence Weschler Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
* 2005 William Logan The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin
* 2004 Patrick Neate Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet
* 2003 Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
* 2002 William H. Gass Tests of Time
* 2001 Martin Amis The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000
* 2000 Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & Quandary
* 1999 Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fictions
* 1998 Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz: The First Century
* 1997 Mario Vargas Llosa Making Waves
* 1996 William H. Gass Finding a Form
* 1995 Robert Darnton The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France
* 1994 Gerald Early The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture
* 1993 John Dizikes Opera in America: A Cultural History
* 1992 Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America
* 1991 Lawrence L. Langer Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory
* 1990 Arthur C. Danto Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
* 1989 John Clive Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History
* 1988 Clifford Geertz Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author
* 1987 Edwin Denby Dance Writings
* 1986 Joseph Brodsky Less Than One: Selected Essays
* 1985 William H. Gass Habitations of the Word: Essays
* 1984 Robert Hass Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry
* 1983 John Updike Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism
* 1982 Gore Vidal The Second American Revolution and Other Essays
* 1981 Virgil Thomson A Virgil Thomson Reader
* 1980 Helen Vendler Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
* 1979 Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels
* 1978 Meyer Schapiro Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2)
* 1977 Susan Sontag On Photography
* 1976 Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance and Importance of Fairy Tales
* 1975 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory