Book Awards
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National Book Critics Circle Award |
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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 active book reviewers, interested in communicating with one another about common concerns. In recent years, the NBCC has made efforts to become a truly national organization by offering forums in locations outside of New York. The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism.
A critics' choice award, chosen by over 700 professional book critics and review editors.
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2000 Winners |
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Winner
Jim Crace, Being Dead (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
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Finalists
Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You (Random)
Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (Random)
David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories (Context Books)
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (Random)
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Winner
Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Random House)
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Finalists
Fred Anderson, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
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| Biography/Autobiography |
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Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (HarperCollins)
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Finalists
Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel (Houghton Mifflin)
Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945 (Random)
David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst (Houghton Mifflin)
Jean-Yves Tadié, Marcel Proust: A Life (Viking)
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Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (Louisiana State University Press)
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Finalists
Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours (Knopf)
Michael Collier, The Ledge (Houghton Mifflin)
Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux)
Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule (Yale University Press)
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| Literary Criticism |
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Winner
Cynthia Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (Knopf)
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Finalists
Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present (HarperCollins)
Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World (Knopf)
Charles Rosen, Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New (Harvard University Press)
Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds (University of Georgia Press)
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1999 Winners |
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Winner
Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn |
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Finalists
A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne
Frederick Busch, The Night Inspcetor
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories
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Winner
Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
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Finalists
Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
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Winner
Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White |
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Finalists
Richard Holmes, Coleridge, Volume II: Darker Reflections
Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
Susan E. Tifft and Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
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Winner
Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words |
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Finalists
Rafael Campo, Diva
Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour
Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks
Susan Kinsolving, Dailies and Rushes
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Winner
Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions |
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Finalists
Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry
Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets
David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
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1998 Winners |
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Winner
Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman |
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Finalists
Michael Cunningham, The Hours
David Gates, Preston Falls
Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life
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Winner
Philip Gourevitch, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families |
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Finalists
Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: the First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Mankind From Antiquity to the Present
Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Winner
Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 |
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Finalists
Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockerfeller, Sr.
Homer H. Hickam Jr., Rocket Boys: A Memoir
David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
Amanda Vaill, Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story
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| Poetry |
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Winner
Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher |
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Finalists
Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red
Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence: A Selection of Verse, 1977-1997
Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise
Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
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| Literary Criticism |
Winner
Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz |
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Finalists
Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling With D.H. Lawrence
Nelson George, Hip Hop America
Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry
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