National Book Critics Circle Awards
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| 2006 |
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Fiction
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The Inheritance of Loss, by
Kiran Desai
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| Half of a Yellow Sun, by
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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| What is the What, by
Dave Eggers
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| The Lay of the Land, by
Richard Ford
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| The Road, by
Cormac McCarthy
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Nonfiction
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| Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution, by
Simon Schama
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| The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, by
Patrick Cockburn
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| The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade, by
Anne Fessler
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| The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by
Michael Pollan
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| The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East, by
Sandy Tolan
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Autobiography
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| The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by
Daniel Mendelsohn
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| The Afterlife, by
Donald Antrim
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| Fun Home, by
Alison Bechdel
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| Stuart: A Life Backwards, by
Alexander Masters
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| Strange Piece of Paradise, by
Teri Jentz
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Biography
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| James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon, by
Julie Phillips
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| The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher, by
Debby Applegate
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| At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968, by
Taylor Branch
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| Flaubert: A Biography, by
Frederick Brown
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| A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler, by
Jason Roberts
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Poetry
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| Tom Thomson in Purgatory, by
Troy Jollimore
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| My Brother is Getting Arrested Again, by
Daisy Fried
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| Poems (1945-1971), by
Miltos Sachtouris
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| Ooga-Booga, by
Frederick Seidel
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| Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems, by
W.D. Snodgrass
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Criticism
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| Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, by
Lawrence Weschler
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| While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the WestFrom Within, by
Bruce Bawer
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| Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays, by
Frederick Crews
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| Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon, by
Daniel Dennett
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| On Looking: Essays, by
Lia Purpura
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| 2005 |
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Fiction
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| The March, by
E. L. Doctorow
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| Veronica, by
Mary Gaitskill
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| Small Island, by
Andrea Levy
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| Never Let Me Go, by
Kazuo Ishiguro
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| Europe Central, by
William Vollmann
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Nonfiction
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| Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster, by
Svetlana Alexievich
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| The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East, by
Robert Fisk
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| Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild, by
Ellen Meloy
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| Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees, by
Caroline Moorehead
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| Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, by
Anthony Shadid
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Autobiography
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| Them: A Memoir of Parents, by
Francine du Plessix Gray
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| The Year of Magical Thinking, by
Joan Didion
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| Fat Girl: A True Story, by
Judith Moore
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| Istanbul: Memories and the City, by
Orhan Pamuk
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| Two Lives, by
Vikram Seth
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Biography
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| American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by
Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
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| Lee Miller, by
Carolyn Burke
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| Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson, by
Jonathon Coe
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| Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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| Mark Twain: A Life, by
Ron Powers
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Poetry
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| Refusing Heaven, by
Jack Gilbert
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| The Shout, by
Simon Armitage
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| Bent to the Earth, by
Manual Blas de Luna
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| Crush, by
Richard Siken
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| The Incentive of the Maggot, by
Ron Slate
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Criticism
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| The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin, by
William Logan
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| Gather at the River: Notes from the Post-millennial South, by
Hal Crowther
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| Unnatural Wonders, by
Arthur Danto
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| Still Looking: Essays on American Art, by
John Updike
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| What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles, by
Eliot Weinberger
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| 2004 |
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Fiction
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| Gilead, by
Marilynne Robinson
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| The Dew Breaker, by
Edwidge Danticat
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| The Line of Beauty, by
Alan Hollinghurst
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| Cloud Atlas, by
David Mitchell
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| The Plot Against America, by
Philip Roth
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Nonfiction
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| The Reformation: A History, by
Diarmaid MacCulloch
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| Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, by
Kevin Boyle
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| Blue Blood, by
Edward Conlon
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| The Working Poor: Invisible in America, by
David Shipler
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| Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story, by
Timothy B. Tyson
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Biography and Autobiography
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| De Kooning: An American Master, by
Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan
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| Alexander Hamilton, by
Ron Chernow
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| Chronicles Vol. 1, by
Bob Dylan
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| Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by
Stephen Greenblatt
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| Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart, by
John Guy
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Poetry
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| The School Among the Ruins, by
Adrienne Rich
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| The Orchard, by
Brigit Pegeen Kelly
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| Cocktails, by
D.A. Powell
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| Interglacial, by
James Richardson
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| Danger on Peaks, by
Gary Snyder
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Criticism
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| Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet, by
Patrick Neate
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| Paper Trail: Selected Prose 1965-2003, by
Richard Howard
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| Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century, by
Graham Robb
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| Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me, by
Craig Seligman
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| The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel, by
James Wood
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| 2003 |
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Fiction
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| The Known World, by
Edward P. Jones
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| Brick Lane, by
Monica Ali
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| A Distant Shore, by
Caryl Phillips
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| The Tome of Our Singing, by
Richard Powers
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| Old School, by
Tobias Wolff
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Nonfiction
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| Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and its Legacy, by
Paul Hendrickson
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| The Bounty, by
Caroline Alexander
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| Gulag: A History, by
Anne Applebaum
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| Random Family: Love, Drugs, and Coming of Age in the Bronx, by
Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
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| Rising Up and Rising Down, by
William T. Vollman
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Biography and Autobiography
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| Krushchev: The Man and His Era, by
William Taubman
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| A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates, by
Blake Bailey
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| The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, by
Paul Elie
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| Jonathon Edwards: A Life, by
George M. Marsden
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| Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, by
Carol Loeb Schloss
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Poetry
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| Columbarium, by
Susan Stewart
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| Blue Hour, by
Carolyn Forche
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| What Narcissism Means to Me, by
Tony Hoagland
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| She Says, by
Venus Khoury-Ghata
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| Granted, by
Mary Szybist
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Criticism
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| River of Shadows: Edweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West, by
Rebecca Solnit
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| Gritos, by
Dagoberto Glib
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| Songbook, by
Nick Hornby
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| Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling, by
Ross King
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| Regarding the Pain of Others, by
Susan Sontag
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| 2002 |
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Fiction
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| Atonement, by
Ian McEwan
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| Middlesex, by
Jeffrey Eugenides
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| Nowhere Man, by
Aleksandar Hemon
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| Roscoe, by
William Kennedy
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| The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories, by
Edith Templeton
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Nonfiction
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| A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, by
Samantha Power
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| War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, by
Chris Hedges
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| American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center, by
William Langewiesche
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| Brown: The Last Discovery of America, by
Richard Rodriguez
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| Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life, by
Gaby Wood
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Biography and Autobiography
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| Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, by
Janet Browne
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| Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, by
Robert A. Caro
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| The Last American Man, by
elizabeth Gilbert
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| Benjamin Franklin, by
Edmund S. Morgan
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| Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?: The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music, by
Mark Zwonitzer
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Poetry
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| Early Occult Memory Systems od the Lower Midwest, by
B.H. Fairchild
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| Leaving Saturn, by
Major Jackson
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| Sleeping with the Dictionary, by
Harryette Mullen
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| The Unswept Room, by
Sharon Olds
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| Without End, by
Adam Zagajewski
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Criticism
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| Tests of Time, by
William H. Gass
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| Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color, by
Philip Ball
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| Old Man Goya, by
Julia Blackburn
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| Reviewery, by
Christopher Ricks
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| Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist, by
Charles Rosen
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| 2001 |
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Fiction
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| Austerlitz, by
W.G. Sebald
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| The Corrections, by
Jonathan Franzen
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| Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories, by
Alice Munro
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| Bel Canto, by
Ann Patchett
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| John Henry Days, by
Colson Whitehead
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Nonfiction
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| Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, by
Nicholson Baker
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| Seabiscuit: An American Legend, by
Laura Hillenbrand
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| The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair, by
Sam Roberts
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| The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care, by
Nina Bernstein
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| Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, by
Jan T. Gross
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Biography and Autobiography
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| Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson, by
Adam Sisman
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| Borrowed Finery: A Memoir, by
Paula Fox
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| Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez farina, and Richard Farina, by
David Hajdu
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| Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on This Planet, by
Eugene Walter
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| The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered By Scandal, by
Barry Werth
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Poetry
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| Saving Lives, by
Albert Goldbarth
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| The Seven Ages, by
Louise Gluck
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| A Treatise on Poetry, by
Czeslaw Milosz
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| Given Sugar, Given Salt, by
Jane Hirshfield
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| Animal Soul, by
Bob Hicok
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Criticism
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| The War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000, by
Martin Amis
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| Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, by
H.J. Jackson
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| De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong, by
W.D. Snodgrass
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| As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, by
Rebecca Solnit
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| Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals, by
Joy Williams
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