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National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction
Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afganistan
Steve Coll
The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
Frances FitzGerald
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic
Sam Quinones
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
David Brion Davis
Five Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged Hospital
Sheri Fink
Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity
Andrew Solomon
Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War
Maya Jasanoff
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
Richard Holmes
The Forever War
Dexter Filkins
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present
Harriet Washington
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
Simon Schama
Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster
Svetlana Alexievich
The Reformation: A History
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy
Paul Hendrickson
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
Samantha Power
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper
Nicholson Baker
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing
Ted Conover
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Jonathan Weiner
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
Philip Gourevich
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
Anne Fadiman
A Civil Action
Jonathan Harr
The Rape of Europa
Lynn Nicholas
The Land Where the Blues Began
Alan Lomax
Young Men and Fire
Norman Maclean
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women
Susan Faludi
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
Shelby Steele
The Broken Cord
Michael Dorris
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63
Taylor Branch
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhode
Arctic Dreams
Barry Lopez
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
J. Anthony Lukas
Weapons and Hope
Freeman Dyson
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House
Seymour M. Hersh
The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Robert A. Caro
The Mismeasure of Man
Stephen Jay Gould
Walter Lippman and the American Century
Ronald Steel
Munich: The Price of Peace
Telford Taylor
Facts of Life
Maureen Howard
Samuel Johnson
W. Jackson Bate
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
Maxine Hong Kingston
Edith Wharton: A Biography
R.W.B. Lewis
