National Book Critics Circle Award — Autobiography

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

  2024NBCCAutobiography
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  How to Say Babylon: A Memoir by Safiya Sinclair

  2023NBCCAutobiography
• Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu

  2022NBCCAutobiography
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  Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin

  2021NBCCAutobiography
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  Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong

  2020NBCCAutobiography
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  Know My Name: A Memoir by Chanel Miller

  2019NBCCAutobiography
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  Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home by Nora Krug

  2018NBCCAutobiography
• Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China by Xiaolu Guo

  2017NBCCAutobiography
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  Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

  2016NBCCAutobiography
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  Negroland: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson

  2015NBCCAutobiography
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  Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

  2014NBCCAutobiography
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  Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti by Amy Wilentz

  2013NBCCAutobiography
• Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton

  2012NBCCAutobiography
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  The Memory Palace by Mira Bartók

  2011NBCCAutobiography
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  Half a Life by Darin Strauss

  2010NBCCAutobiography
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  Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

  2009NBCCAutobiography
• My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq by Ariel Sabar

  2008NBCCAutobiography
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  Brother, I'm Dying by Edwidge Danticat

  2007NBCCAutobiography
• The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn

  2006NBCCAutobiography
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  Them: A Memoir of Parents by Francine du Plessix Gray

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

  2004NBCCAutobiography
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  Khrushchev: The Man and His Era by William Taubman

  2003NBCCAutobiography
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  Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II by Janet Browne

  2002NBCCAutobiography
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  Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson by Adam Sisman

  2001NBCCAutobiography
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  Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan by Herbert P. Bix

  2000NBCCAutobiography
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  The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White by Henry Wiencek

  1999NBCCAutobiography
• A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar

  1998NBCCAutobiography
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  Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II by James Tobin

  1997NBCCAutobiography
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  Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

  1996NBCCAutobiography
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  Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito

  1995NBCCAutobiography
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  Shot in the Heart by Mikal Gilmore

  1994NBCCAutobiography
• Genet by Edmund White

  1993NBCCAutobiography
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  Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World by Carol Brightman

  1992NBCCAutobiography
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  Patrimony: A True Story by Philip Roth

  1991NBCCAutobiography
• Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II by Robert A. Caro

  1990NBCCAutobiography
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  A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward

  1989NBCCAutobiography
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  Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann

  1988NBCCAutobiography
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  Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard

  1987NBCCAutobiography
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  The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 by Arnold Rampersad

  1986NBCCAutobiography
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  Henry James: A Life by Leon Edel

  1985NBCCAutobiography
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  Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850–1859 by Joseph Frank

  1984NBCCAutobiography
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  Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson

  1983NBCCAutobiography