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2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerMedical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the PresentHarriet WashingtonFrom the era of slavery to the present day, the first full history of black America’s shocking mistreatment as unwilling and unwitting experimental subjects at the hands of the medical establishment. Medical Apartheid is the first and only comprehensive hi...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican TranscendentalismPhilip GuraAmazonLegacy of Ashes: A History of the CIATim WeinerAmazonThe World Without Us, Thomas DunneAlan WeismanAmazonWhat Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848Daniel Walker HoweAmazon

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1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall DownAnne FadimanA study in the collision between Western medicine and the beliefs of a traditional culture focuses on a hospitalized child of Laotian immigrants whose belief that illness is a spiritual matter comes into conflict with doctors' methods....Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAmerican ScripturePauline MaierAmazonHow the Mind WorksStephen PinkerAmazonInto Thin AirJon KrakauerAmazonThe Bible as It WasJames KugelAmazon

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2009 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of ScienceRichard HolmesThe Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 176...Amazon2009 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistFordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle CityGreg GrandinAmazonImperialWilliam T. VollmannAmazonStrength in What RemainsTracy KidderAmazonThe Hindus: An Alternative HistoryWendy DonigerAmazon

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2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great MigrationIsabel WilkersonIn this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistApollo’s Angels: A History of BalletJennifer HomansAmazonEmpire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American HistoryS.C. GwynneAmazonNothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North KoreaBarbara DemickAmazonThe Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography o...

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2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerLiberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary WarMaya JasanoffA global history of the post-Revolutionary War exodus of 60,000 Americans loyal to the British Empire to such regions as Canada, India and Sierra Leone traces the experiences of specific individuals while challenging popular conceptions about the founding ...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistA World on Fire: Britain’s Crucial Role in the American Civil WarAmanda ForemanAmazonPulphead: EssaysJohn Jeremiah SullivanAmazonThe InformationJames GleickAmazonTo End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918Adam HochschildAmazon

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2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFar From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for IdentityAndrew SolomonThe National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon explores the consequences of extreme personal differences between parents and children, describing his own experiences as a gay child of straight parents while evaluating the circumstances of peop...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooAmazonPrivate Empire: ExxonMobil and American PowerSteve CollAmazonSpillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human PandemicDavid QuammenAmazonWhy Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective StoryJim HoltAmazon

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2013 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerFive Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged HospitalSheri FinkA Pulitzer Prize-winning doctor, reporter and author of War Hospital reconstructs five days at Memorial Medical Center after Hurricane Katrina destroyed its generators to reveal how caregivers were forced to make life-and-death decisions without essential ...Amazon2013 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGoing Clear: Scientology, Hollywood And The Prison Of BeliefLawrence WrightAmazonThank You For Your ServiceDavid FinkelAmazonThe Unwinding: An Inner History Of The New AmericaGeorge PackerAmazonWhitey Bulger: America’s Most Wanted Gangster And The Manhunt That Brought Him To JusticeKevin Cullen And Shelley MurphyAmazon

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2014 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerThe Problem of Slavery in the Age of EmancipationDavid Brion DavisA conclusion to the historian's three-volume history of slavery in Western culture covers the influential Haitian revolution, the complex significance of colonization, and the less-recognized importance of freed slaves to abolition....Amazon2014 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistCapital in the Twenty-First Century, translated from the French by Arthur GoldhammerThomas PikettyAmazonDeep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them FreeHector TobarAmazonThe Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural HistoryElizabeth KolbertAmazonThe Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a ...

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerDreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate EpidemicSam QuinonesAn explosive true account of addiction, marketing and the making of an epidemic weaves together the story of Purdue Pharma's campaign to market OxyContin, while, at the same time, a massive influx of black tar heroin took the county by storm through an alm...Amazon2015 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistGhettoside: A True Story of Murder in AmericaJill LeovyAmazonGive Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in AmericaAri BermanAmazonSPQR: A History of RomeMary BeardAmazonWhat the Eye Hears: A History of Tap DancingBrian SeibertAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerEvicted: Poverty and Profit in the American CityMatthew DesmondA Harvard sociologist examines the challenge of eviction as a formidable cause of poverty in America, revealing how millions of people are wrongly forced from their homes and reduced to cycles of extreme disadvantage that are reinforced by dysfunctional le...Amazon2016 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistDark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical RightJane MayerAmazonNothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of WarViet Thanh NguyenAmazonStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in AmericaIbram X. KendiAmazonWriting to Save a Life: The Louis Till FileJohn Edgar WidemanAma...