National Book Critics Circle Award

The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction is chosen by working book critics. One of the few major awards selected entirely by reviewers rather than…

Nonfiction published in English in the US; voted on by NBCC members.

2024

• We're Alone — finalist

2023

• Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs — finalist

2021

• Orwell's Roses — finalist

2014

• The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation — winner
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century — finalist

2013

• Thank You for Your Service — finalist

2009

• Strength in What Remains — finalist

2008

• The Forever War — winner

2004

• Blue Blood — finalist
• Arc Of Justice, A Saga Of Race, Civil Rights, And Murder In The Jazz Age — finalist

2003

• Sons of Mississippi — winner
• Rising Up and Rising Down — finalist

2002

• War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning — finalist

1998

• We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families — winner

1996

• Great Books — finalist

1995

• A Civil Action — winner
• Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder — finalist
• In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle — finalist

1993

• The Land Where the Blues Began — winner
• The Last Panda — finalist

1992

• Breaking the Maya Code — finalist

1991

• Praying for Sheetrock — finalist

1990

• Samba — finalist

1989

• The Broken Cord — winner
• Among Schoolchildren — finalist

1987

• The Making of the Atomic Bomb — winner
• Time's Arrow Time's Cycle — finalist

1985

• House — finalist

1984

• Brothers and Keepers — finalist

1983

• Children Of War — finalist

1982

• The Fate of the Earth — finalist
• Stolen Lightning — finalist

1981

• The Mismeasure of Man — winner
• Forms of Talk — finalist

1980

• Walter Lippmann and the American Century — winner
• Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality — finalist

1979

• The Right Stuff — finalist

1978

• Facts Of Life — winner
• The Snow Leopard — finalist
• New York Jew — finalist
• Seeing Through Clothes — finalist

1977

• Samuel Johnson — winner
• Dispatches — finalist
• Coming into The Country — finalist

1976

• Roots — finalist
• World of Our Fathers — finalist

1975

• Edith Wharton a Biography — winner