1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner

Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the bestselling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of…
1985 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Shortlist

Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans
Alan Riding

House
Tracy Kidder

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
Elaine Scarry
