Saturday, November 23

National Book Critics Circle Award

1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerBad LandJonathan RabanJonathan Raban takes the reader on an enthralling journey into the least populated and least known region in the United States, Montana, and finds there the heart and soul of the country. Bringing to life the extraordinary landscape of the prairie and the ...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistAshes to AshesRichard KlugerAmazonHitler’s Willing ExecutionersDaniel GoldhagenAmazonThe Great BooksDavid DenbyAmazonThe Middle EastBernard LewisAmazon
1996 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSun Under WoodRobert HassRobert Hass demonstrates once again the unmistakable intelligence and original voice that have won him both literary acclaim and the affection of a broad general readership. Here Hass extends and deepens his ongoing explorations of nature and human history...Amazon1996 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistImagine the Angels of BreadMartín EspadaAmazonLoosestrifeStephen DunnAmazonMusic Minus OneJane ShoreAmazonThe VigilC.K. WilliamsAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerErnie Pyle’s WarJames TobinWhen a machine-gun bullet ended the life of war correspondent Ernie Pyle in the final days of World War II, Americans mourned him in the same breath as they mourned Franklin Roosevelt. To millions, the loss of this American folk hero seemed nearly as great...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistAmerican SphinxJoseph EllisAmazonVirginia WoolfHermione LeeAmazonWalking in the ShadeDoris LessingAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerMaking WavesMario Vargas LlosaSpanning thirty years of writing, Making Waves traces the development of Mario Vargas Llosa's thinking on politics and culture, and shows the breadth of his interests and passions. Featured here are astute meditations on the Cuban Revolution, Latin America...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistGod and the American WriterAlfred KazinAmazonThe Art of Shakespeare’s SonnetsHelen VendlerAmazonThe End of the Novel of LoveVivian GornickAmazonThe Pleasures of the ImaginationJohn BrewerAmazon
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Blue FlowerPenelope FitzgeraldPresents a fictionalized account of the relationship between the eighteenth-century German poet known as Novalis and his true love, Sophie...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistAmerican PastoralPhilip RothAmazonCold MountainCharles FrazierAmazonDreams of My Russian SummersAndrei MakineAmazonUnderworldDon DeLilloAmazon
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
1997 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerBlack ZodiacCharles WrightWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations on faith, religion, heritage, and morality. The poems also explore aging and mortality with restless grace...Amazon1997 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistDesireFrank BidartAmazonDoes Your House Have Lions?Sonya SanchezAmazonLoose SugarBrenda HillmanAmazonQuestions for EcclesiastesMark JarmanAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerA Beautiful MindSylvia NasarIn this powerful and dramatic biography Sylvia Nasar vividly recreates the life of a mathematical genius whose career was cut short by schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a N...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistEverybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love StoryAmanda VaillAmazonKing of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American HeroDavid RemnickAmazonRocket Boys: A MemoirHomer H. Hickman Jr.AmazonTitan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.Ron ChernowAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerVisions of Jazz: The First CenturyGary GiddinsAn outstanding voice in the field, the jazz critic for The Village Voice leads readers through the first century of the music in a voluminous, expert account of the great jazz artists past and present and their distinctive contributions. UP....Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistHip Hop AmericaNelson GeorgeAmazonOut of Sheer RageGeoff DyerAmazonShakespeare: The Invention of the HumanHarold BloomAmazonThe Sounds of PoetryRobert PinskyAmazon
1998 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Love of a Good WomanAlice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Alice Munro has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. In this brilliant new collection she takes mainly the lives of wom...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBirds of AmericaLorrie MooreAmazonNo Lease on LifeLynne TillmanAmazonPreston FallsDavid GatesAmazonThe HoursMichael CunninghamAmazon