National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

Winners

	Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman 3.98 avg rating — 275 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2011)	My rating:
	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff 3.89 avg rating — 64 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2011)	My rating:
	The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok (Goodreads Author) 3.46 avg rating — 2,460 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2011)	My rating:
	George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis 4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2011)	My rating:
	Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer 3.86 avg rating — 148 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2011)	My rating:
	Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke 4.00 avg rating — 72 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2011)	My rating:
	A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) 3.62 avg rating — 40,970 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2010)	My rating:
	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 4,923 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2010)	My rating:
	Half a Life by Darin Strauss 3.53 avg rating — 1,670 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2010)	My rating:
	Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2010)	My rating:
	How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell 4.00 avg rating — 739 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2010)	My rating:
	Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall, #1) by Hilary Mantel 3.78 avg rating — 14,551 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2009)	My rating:
	Rae Armantrout by Lambert M. Surhone (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2009)	My rating:
	Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss 4.34 avg rating — 351 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2009)	My rating:
	Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill 3.55 avg rating — 549 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2009)	My rating:
	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.97 avg rating — 1,735 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2009)	My rating:
	Cheever by Blake Bailey 4.18 avg rating — 258 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2009)	My rating:
	My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar 4.13 avg rating — 477 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2008)	My rating:
	2666 by Roberto Bolaño 4.17 avg rating — 7,722 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2008)	My rating:
	Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2008)	My rating:
	Children's Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer 3.30 avg rating — 79 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2008)	My rating:
	The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 4.29 avg rating — 2,459 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2008)	My rating:
	The World is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2008)	My rating:
	Sleeping it Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler 3.84 avg rating — 74 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2008)	My rating:
	Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat 4.05 avg rating — 1,774 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2007)	My rating:
	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 4.22 avg rating — 396 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2007)	My rating:
	The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross 4.20 avg rating — 2,271 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2007)	My rating:
	Elegy by Mary Jo Bang (Goodreads Author) 3.97 avg rating — 223 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2007)	My rating:
	Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal 3.91 avg rating — 128 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2007)	My rating:
	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 3.81 avg rating — 60,203 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2007)	My rating: