National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

Every year since 1974, the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) presents awards for the finest books published in English. Awards are presented annuall ...more

Winners

	Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So 3.98 avg rating — 10,809 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss 4.52 avg rating — 1,019 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith (Goodreads Author) 4.73 avg rating — 25,725 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Girlhood by Melissa Febos (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 6,649 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 3,788 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin (Goodreads Author) 3.83 avg rating — 2,662 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers 4.52 avg rating — 24,942 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Luster by Raven Leilani (Goodreads Author) 3.55 avg rating — 86,922 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood 4.59 avg rating — 74 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Here is the Sweet Hand: Poems by francine j. harris 3.99 avg rating — 103 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong 4.23 avg rating — 35,001 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 1,699 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner (Goodreads Author) 4.16 avg rating — 163 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell (Goodreads Author) 4.22 avg rating — 201,991 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom 3.91 avg rating — 22,482 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Magical Negro by Morgan Parker 4.31 avg rating — 2,547 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe 4.45 avg rating — 86,374 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat 3.72 avg rating — 9,990 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals by Saidiya Hartman 4.48 avg rating — 3,076 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin 3.70 avg rating — 1,883 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Know My Name by Chanel Miller 4.72 avg rating — 160,902 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith 3.82 avg rating — 7,268 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Carrying: Poems by Ada Limon (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 5,350 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug 4.34 avg rating — 7,051 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 226 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016 by Steve Coll 4.23 avg rating — 3,415 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Milkman by Anna Burns 3.54 avg rating — 56,366 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	There There by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 160,587 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.87 avg rating — 74,033 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Improvement by Joan Silber 3.53 avg rating — 5,516 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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