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

	Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 16,116 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 3.57 avg rating — 2,001 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
	You Play the Girl: And Other Vexing Stories That Tell Women Who They Are by Carina Chocano (Goodreads Author) 3.90 avg rating — 798 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (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
	Whereas by Layli Long Soldier 4.40 avg rating — 1,019 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (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
	Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing Up by Xiaolu Guo 4.11 avg rating — 769 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (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
	The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald 4.16 avg rating — 790 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (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
	Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi 4.42 avg rating — 98,110 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2016)	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
	House of Lords and Commons: Poems by Ishion Hutchinson (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 188 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2016)	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
	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond (Goodreads Author) 4.49 avg rating — 37,043 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2016)	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
	LaRose by Louise Erdrich 3.87 avg rating — 15,892 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2016)	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
	White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson 4.42 avg rating — 3,854 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2016)	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
	Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,382 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2016)	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
	Night at the Fiestas by Kirstin Valdez Quade 4.09 avg rating — 946 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2015)	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 Argonauts by Maggie Nelson 4.02 avg rating — 19,133 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2015)	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
	Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 2,330 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2015)	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
	Negroland by Margo Jefferson (Goodreads Author) 3.61 avg rating — 4,640 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2015)	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
	Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 13,736 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2015)	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
	Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay 4.20 avg rating — 1,487 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2015)	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 Sellout by Paul Beatty 3.77 avg rating — 40,402 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2015)	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
	Redeployment by Phil Klay 3.97 avg rating — 19,691 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2014)	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 Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis 4.41 avg rating — 99 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2014)	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
	Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr (Goodreads Author) 4.23 avg rating — 643 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2014)	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
	Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast 4.12 avg rating — 21,997 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2014)	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 Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis 4.12 avg rating — 90 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction (2014)	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
	Lila (Gilead, #3) by Marilynne Robinson 3.91 avg rating — 23,687 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction (2014)	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
	Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine 4.29 avg rating — 20,948 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (2014)	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
	A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 40,243 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for John Leonard Prize (2013)	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
	Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz (Goodreads Author) 3.76 avg rating — 388 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Autobiography (2013)	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
	Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch 4.13 avg rating — 143 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography (2013)	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
	Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for a Literary History by Franco Moretti 3.73 avg rating — 492 ratings National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism (2013)	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