National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

Every year since 1975, the National Book Critics Circle presents awards for the finest books published in English.

Winners

	Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys: Poems by D.A. Powell (Goodreads Author) 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 131 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2012)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Passage of Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #4) by Robert A. Caro 4.59 of 5 stars 4.59 avg rating — 1,954 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2012)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,824 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2012)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton 3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 316 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2012)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stranger Magic: Charmed States & The Arabian Nights by Marina Warner 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 28 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2012)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis 4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 250 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memory Palace by Mira Bartok (Goodreads Author) 3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 4,245 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff 3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 135 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Space, in Chains by Laura Kasischke 4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 191 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman 3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 706 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer 3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 241 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2011)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson (Goodreads Author) 4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 10,660 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2010)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer by Sarah Bakewell 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 1,287 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2010)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2010)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half a Life by Darin Strauss 3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 2,227 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2010)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan (Goodreads Author) 3.62 of 5 stars 3.62 avg rating — 71,892 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2010)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes 3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 2,964 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2009)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 589 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2009)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) by Hilary Mantel 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 40,942 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2009)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill 3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 703 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2009)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cheever by Blake Bailey 4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 348 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2009)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Forever War by Dexter Filkins 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 3,505 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	2666 by Roberto Bolaño 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 10,884 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems by Juan Felipe Herrera 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 22 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World is What it Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French 4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 217 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar 4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 702 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Children's Literature: A Reader's History, from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer 3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 94 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sleeping it Off in Rapid City by August Kleinzahler 3.88 of 5 stars 3.88 avg rating — 88 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2008)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 92,072 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2007)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington 4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 678 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2007)	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars