National Book Critics Circle Award

1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerWe Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from RwandaPhilip GourevichAn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone i...Amazon1998 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistKing Leopold’s GhostAdam HochschildAmazonMany Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North AmericaIra BerlinAmazonThe Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of HumanityRoy PorterAmazonThe Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxf...

1999 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerTime, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of BehaviorJonathan WeinerHow much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics is inscribed in our DNA? Weiner brings us into Benzer's Fly Rooms at the California Institute of Technology, where Benzer, and his asssociates are in the process of finding an...Amazon1999 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistEmbracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War IIJohn W. DowerAmazonFive Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family HistoryJane BroxAmazonI Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of MemoryPatricia HamplAmazonThe Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon’s Exile on Saint HelenaJean-Paul KauffmannAmaz...