Living Canon

National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Awards, presented since 1975 by a board of professional book review editors and critics, honor outstanding writing in fiction, nonfiction, biography, autobiography, poetry, and criticism.

• Wrong Norma by Anne Carson

  2024NBCCPoetry
• There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension by Hanif Abdurraqib

  2024NBCCCriticism
• Patriot: A Memoir by Alexei Navalny(trans.Arch Tait with Stephen Dalziel)

  2024NBCCAutobiography
• My Friends by Hisham Matar

  2024NBCCFiction
• Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

  2024NBCCNonfiction
• Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar by Cynthia Carr

  2024NBCCBiography
• Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage by Jonny Steinberg

  2023NBCCBiography
• We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

  2023NBCCNonfiction
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  Phantom Pain Wings by Kim Hyesoon

  2023NBCCPoetry
• I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home by Lorrie Moore

  2023NBCCFiction
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  How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

  2023NBCCAutobiography
• Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression by Tina Post

  2023NBCCCriticism
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  The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler

  2022NBCCNonfiction
• Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu

  2022NBCCAutobiography
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  Hotel Oblivion by Cynthia Cruz

  2022NBCCPoetry
• G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage

  2022NBCCBiography
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  Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age by Timothy Bewes

  2022NBCCCriticism
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  Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

  2022NBCCFiction
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  The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

  2021NBCCFiction
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  How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith

  2021NBCCNonfiction
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  Girlhood by Melissa Febos

  2021NBCCCriticism
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  Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

  2021NBCCAutobiography
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  Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss

  2021NBCCPoetry
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  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

  2021NBCCBiography
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  Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley

  2020NBCCBiography
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  Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

  2020NBCCAutobiography
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  Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Nicole R. Fleetwood

  2020NBCCCriticism
• Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire by Tom Zoellner

  2020NBCCNonfiction
• Here Is the Sweet Hand by Francine J. Harris

  2020NBCCPoetry
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  Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell

  2020NBCCFiction
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  Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

  2019NBCCCriticism
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  The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth by Josh Levin

  2019NBCCBiography
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  Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe

  2019NBCCNonfiction
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  Magical Negro by Morgan Parker

  2019NBCCPoetry
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  Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

  2019NBCCAutobiography
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  Everything Inside by Edwidge Danticat

  2019NBCCFiction
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  The Carrying by Ada Limón

  2018NBCCPoetry
• Milkman by Anna Burns

  2018NBCCFiction
• Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous by Christopher Bonanos

  2018NBCCBiography
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  Feel Free: Essays by Zadie Smith

  2018NBCCCriticism
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  Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Steve Coll

  2018NBCCNonfiction
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  Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home by Nora Krug

  2018NBCCAutobiography
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  You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages by Carina Chocano

  2017NBCCCriticism
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  Whereas by Layli Long Soldier

  2017NBCCPoetry
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  The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances FitzGerald

  2017NBCCNonfiction
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  Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser

  2017NBCCBiography
• Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China by Xiaolu Guo

  2017NBCCAutobiography
• Improvement by Joan Silber

  2017NBCCFiction
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  White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson

  2016NBCCCriticism
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  Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life by Ruth Franklin

  2016NBCCBiography
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  Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

  2016NBCCAutobiography
• LaRose by Louise Erdrich

  2016NBCCFiction
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  House of Lords and Commons by Ishion Hutchinson

  2016NBCCPoetry
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  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  2016NBCCNonfiction
• The Sellout by Paul Beatty

  2015NBCCFiction
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  The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

  2015NBCCCriticism
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  Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley by Charlotte Gordon

  2015NBCCBiography
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  Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

  2015NBCCAutobiography
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  Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones

  2015NBCCNonfiction
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  Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude by Ross Gay

  2015NBCCPoetry
• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation by David Brion Davis

  2014NBCCNonfiction
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  The Essential Ellen Willis by Ellen Willis, edited byNona Willis Aronowitz

  2014NBCCCriticism
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  Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh by John Lahr

  2014NBCCBiography
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  Lila by Marilynne Robinson

  2014NBCCFiction
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  Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine

  2014NBCCPoetry
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  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

  2014NBCCAutobiography
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  Metaphysical Dog by Frank Bidart

  2013NBCCPoetry
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  Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World by Leo Damrosch

  2013NBCCBiography
• Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri Fink

  2013NBCCNonfiction
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  Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti by Amy Wilentz

  2013NBCCAutobiography
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  Distant Reading by Franco Moretti

  2013NBCCCriticism
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  Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  2013NBCCFiction
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  Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys by D. A. Powell

  2012NBCCPoetry
• The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

  2012NBCCBiography
• Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton

  2012NBCCAutobiography
• Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights by Marina Warner

  2012NBCCCriticism
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  Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

  2012NBCCNonfiction
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  Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain

  2012NBCCFiction
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  The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók

  2011NBCCAutobiography
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  Space, In Chains by Laura Kasischke

  2011NBCCPoetry
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  Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews by Geoff Dyer

  2011NBCCCriticism
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  Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World by Maya Jasanoff

  2011NBCCNonfiction
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  George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

  2011NBCCBiography
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  Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories by Edith Pearlman

  2011NBCCFiction
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  The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson

  2010NBCCNonfiction
• One With Others by C.D. Wright

  2010NBCCPoetry
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  Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West by Clare Cavanagh

  2010NBCCCriticism
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  How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

  2010NBCCBiography
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  Half a Life by Darin Strauss

  2010NBCCAutobiography
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  A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

  2010NBCCFiction
• Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

  2009NBCCFiction
• Versed by Rae Armantrout

  2009NBCCPoetry
• The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes

  2009NBCCNonfiction
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  Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

  2009NBCCAutobiography
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  Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays by Eula Biss

  2009NBCCCriticism
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  Cheever: A Life by Blake Bailey

  2009NBCCBiography
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  The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul by Patrick French

  2008NBCCBiography
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  The Forever War by Dexter Filkins

  2008NBCCNonfiction
• My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar

  2008NBCCAutobiography
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  Half the World in Light by Juan Felipe Herrera

  2008NBCCPoetry
• Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter by Seth Lerer

  2008NBCCCriticism
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  2666 by Roberto BolañowithNatasha Wimmer(trans.)

  2008NBCCFiction
• The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century by Alex Ross

  2007NBCCCriticism
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  The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz

  2007NBCCFiction
• Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer by Tim Jeal

  2007NBCCBiography
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  Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

  2007NBCCNonfiction
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  Elegy by Mary Jo Bang

  2007NBCCPoetry
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  Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

  2007NBCCAutobiography
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  Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore

  2006NBCCPoetry
• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

  2006NBCCAutobiography
• The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  2006NBCCFiction
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  Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

  2006NBCCNonfiction
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  James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips

  2006NBCCBiography
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  Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler

  2006NBCCCriticism
• Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

  2005NBCCNonfiction
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  Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray

  2005NBCCAutobiography
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  The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin by William Logan

  2005NBCCCriticism
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  The March by E. L. Doctorow

  2005NBCCFiction
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  Refusing Heaven by Jack Gilbert

  2005NBCCPoetry
• American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai BirdandMartin J. Sherwin

  2005NBCCBiography
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  de Kooning: An American Master by Mark StevensandAnnalyn Swan

  2004NBCCBiography
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  de Kooning: An American Master by Mark StevensandAnnalyn Swan

  2004NBCCAutobiography
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  Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet by Patrick Neate

  2004NBCCCriticism
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  The School Among the Ruins by Adrienne Rich

  2004NBCCPoetry
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  The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

  2004NBCCNonfiction
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  Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

  2004NBCCFiction
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  The Known World by Edward P. Jones

  2003NBCCFiction
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  Sons of Mississippi by Paul Hendrickson

  2003NBCCNonfiction
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  River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit

  2003NBCCCriticism
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  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

  2003NBCCBiography
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  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

  2003NBCCAutobiography
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  Columbarium by Susan Stewart

  2003NBCCPoetry
• Tests of Time by William H. Gass

  2002NBCCCriticism
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  Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest by B.H. Fairchild

  2002NBCCPoetry
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  Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II by Janet Browne

  2002NBCCBiography
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  Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II by Janet Browne

  2002NBCCAutobiography
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  Atonement by Ian McEwan

  2002NBCCFiction
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  A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

  2002NBCCNonfiction
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  The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 by Martin Amis

  2001NBCCCriticism
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  Saving Lives by Albert Goldbarth

  2001NBCCPoetry
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  Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper by Nicholson Baker

  2001NBCCNonfiction
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  Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson by Adam Sisman

  2001NBCCAutobiography
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  Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson by Adam Sisman

  2001NBCCBiography
• Austerlitz by W.G. SebaldwithAnthea Bell(trans.)

  2001NBCCFiction
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  Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick

  2000NBCCCriticism
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  Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

  2000NBCCNonfiction
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  Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

  2000NBCCBiography
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  Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

  2000NBCCAutobiography
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  Carolina Ghost Woods by Judy Jordan

  2000NBCCPoetry
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  Being Dead by Jim Crace

  2000NBCCFiction
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  Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner

  1999NBCCNonfiction
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  The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek

  1999NBCCBiography
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  The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek

  1999NBCCAutobiography
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  Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges

  1999NBCCCriticism
• Ordinary Words by Ruth Stone

  1999NBCCPoetry
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  Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem

  1999NBCCFiction
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  We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

  1998NBCCNonfiction
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  Visions of Jazz: The First Century by Gary Giddins

  1998NBCCCriticism
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  The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro

  1998NBCCFiction
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  The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot

  1998NBCCPoetry
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

  1998NBCCBiography
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

  1998NBCCAutobiography
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  The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

  1997NBCCNonfiction
• The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald

  1997NBCCFiction
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  Making Waves by Mario Vargas Llosa

  1997NBCCCriticism
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  Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin

  1997NBCCBiography
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  Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin

  1997NBCCAutobiography
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  Black Zodiac by Charles Wright

  1997NBCCPoetry
• Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault

  1996NBCCFiction
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  Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass

  1996NBCCPoetry
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  Finding a Form by William H. Gass

  1996NBCCCriticism
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  Bad Land: An American Romance by Jonathan Raban

  1996NBCCNonfiction
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  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

  1996NBCCBiography
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  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

  1996NBCCAutobiography
• Time and Money by William Matthews

  1995NBCCPoetry
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  The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France by Robert Darnton

  1995NBCCCriticism
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  Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito

  1995NBCCBiography
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  Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito

  1995NBCCAutobiography
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  Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin

  1995NBCCFiction
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  A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr

  1995NBCCNonfiction
• The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields

  1994NBCCFiction
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  The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

  1994NBCCNonfiction
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  The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture by Gerald Early

  1994NBCCCriticism
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  Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

  1994NBCCBiography
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  Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

  1994NBCCAutobiography
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  Rider by Mark Rudman

  1994NBCCPoetry
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  The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax

  1993NBCCNonfiction
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  Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes

  1993NBCCCriticism
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  My Alexandria by Mark Doty

  1993NBCCPoetry
• Genet by Edmund White

  1993NBCCBiography
• Genet by Edmund White

  1993NBCCAutobiography
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  A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

  1993NBCCFiction
• Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

  1992NBCCNonfiction
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  Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman

  1992NBCCBiography
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  Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman

  1992NBCCAutobiography
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  Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills

  1992NBCCCriticism
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  Collected Shorter Poems 1946–1991 by Hayden Carruth

  1992NBCCPoetry
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  All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy

  1992NBCCFiction
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  Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

  1991NBCCBiography
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  Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

  1991NBCCAutobiography
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  Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory by Lawrence L. Langer

  1991NBCCCriticism
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  Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology by Albert Goldbarth

  1991NBCCPoetry
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  Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

  1991NBCCNonfiction
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  A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

  1991NBCCFiction
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  The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America by Shelby Steele

  1990NBCCNonfiction
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  Rabbit at Rest by John Updike

  1990NBCCFiction
• Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II by Robert A. Caro

  1990NBCCBiography
• Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II by Robert A. Caro

  1990NBCCAutobiography
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  Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present by Arthur C. Danto

  1990NBCCCriticism
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  Bitter Angel by Amy Gerstler

  1990NBCCPoetry
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  Transparent Gestures by Rodney Jones

  1989NBCCPoetry
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  The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris

  1989NBCCNonfiction
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  Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History by John Clive

  1989NBCCCriticism
• Billy Bathgate by E. L. Doctorow

  1989NBCCFiction
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  A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

  1989NBCCBiography
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  A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

  1989NBCCAutobiography
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  Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author by Clifford Geertz

  1988NBCCCriticism
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  The One Day by Donald Hall

  1988NBCCPoetry
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  The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee

  1988NBCCFiction
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  Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 by Taylor Branch

  1988NBCCNonfiction
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  Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  1988NBCCBiography
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  Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  1988NBCCAutobiography
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  The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

  1987NBCCNonfiction
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  The Counterlife by Philip Roth

  1987NBCCFiction
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  Flesh and Blood by C.K. Williams

  1987NBCCPoetry
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  Dance Writings by Edwin Denby

  1987NBCCCriticism
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  Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard

  1987NBCCBiography
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  Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard

  1987NBCCAutobiography
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  Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

  1986NBCCPoetry
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  The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 by Arnold Rampersad

  1986NBCCBiography
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  The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 by Arnold Rampersad

  1986NBCCAutobiography
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  Less Than One: Selected Essays by Joseph Brodsky

  1986NBCCCriticism
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  Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price

  1986NBCCFiction
• Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape by Barry Lopez

  1986NBCCNonfiction
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  The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück

  1985NBCCPoetry
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  The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler

  1985NBCCFiction
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  Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel

  1985NBCCBiography
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  Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel

  1985NBCCAutobiography
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  Habitations of the Word: Essays by William H. Gass

  1985NBCCCriticism
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  Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

  1985NBCCNonfiction
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  Weapons and Hope by Freeman Dyson

  1984NBCCNonfiction
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  Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass

  1984NBCCCriticism
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  The Dead and the Living by Sharon Olds

  1984NBCCPoetry
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  Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich

  1984NBCCFiction
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  Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 by Joseph Frank

  1984NBCCBiography
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  Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 by Joseph Frank

  1984NBCCAutobiography
• The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh

  1983NBCCNonfiction
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  The Changing Light at Sandover by James Merrill

  1983NBCCPoetry
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  Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

  1983NBCCBiography
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  Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

  1983NBCCAutobiography
• Ironweed by William Kennedy

  1983NBCCFiction
• Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike

  1983NBCCCriticism
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  The Second American Revolution and Other Essays by Gore Vidal

  1982NBCCCriticism
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  The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro

  1982NBCCNonfiction
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  George Mills by Stanley Elkin

  1982NBCCFiction
• Antarctic Traveler by Katha Pollitt

  1982NBCCPoetry
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  The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

  1981NBCCNonfiction
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  Rabbit Is Rich by John Updike

  1981NBCCFiction
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  A Virgil Thomson Reader by Virgil Thomson

  1981NBCCCriticism
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  A Coast of Trees by A.R. Ammons

  1981NBCCPoetry
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  Walter Lippmann and the American Century by Ronald Steel

  1980NBCCNonfiction
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  The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

  1980NBCCFiction
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  Sunrise by Frederick Seidel

  1980NBCCPoetry
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  Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets by Helen Vendler

  1980NBCCCriticism
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  The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan

  1979NBCCFiction
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  The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine Pagels

  1979NBCCCriticism
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  Munich: The Price of Peace by Telford Taylor

  1979NBCCNonfiction
• Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere by Philip Levine

  1979NBCCPoetry
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  The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever

  1978NBCCFiction
• Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2) by Meyer Schapiro

  1978NBCCCriticism
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  Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman by L. E. Sissman

  1978NBCCPoetry
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  Facts of Life by Maureen Howard

  1978NBCCNonfiction
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  Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

  1977NBCCFiction
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  Samuel Johnson by Walter Jackson Bate

  1977NBCCNonfiction
• On Photography by Susan Sontag

  1977NBCCCriticism
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  Day by Day by Robert Lowell

  1977NBCCPoetry
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  The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston

  1976NBCCNonfiction
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  The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales by Bruno Bettelheim

  1976NBCCCriticism
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  October Light by John Gardner

  1976NBCCFiction
• Geography III by Elizabeth Bishop

  1976NBCCPoetry
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  The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell

  1975NBCCCriticism
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  Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery

  1975NBCCPoetry
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  Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

  1975NBCCFiction
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  Edith Wharton: A Biography by R. W. B. Lewis

  1975NBCCNonfiction

• Autobiography
• Biography
• Criticism
• Fiction
• Nonfiction
• Poetry

See also

• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Caldecott Medal
• Carnegie Medal
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• National Book Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards