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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerNewjack: Guarding Sing SingTed ConoverAfter he was denied access to report on Sing Sing, one of America's most notorious high security jails, journalist Ted Conover applied to become a prison guard. As a rookie officer, or 'newjack', Conover spent a year in the unpredictable, intimidating and ...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistBetrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public HealthLaurie GarrettAmazonCrucible of WarFred AndersonAmazonThe Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert BrasillachAlice KaplanAmazonWay Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold WarFrances FitzgeraldAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerCarolina Ghost WoodsJudy JordanWintry in tone, titles and topics--"Ice molds my life" as one poem puts it--Jordan's debut scours the wooded terrain for metaphors of death ("It's dirt and dust after all") and trolls her family history for murders, suicides, threats and promises of the en...Amazon2000 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMen in the Off HoursAnne CarsonAmazonTalking Dirty to the GodsYusef KomunyakaaAmazonThe LedgeMichael CollierAmazonUltima ThuleDavis McCombsAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerBoswell’s Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. JohnsonAdam SismanWith great wit, Sisman here tells the story of Boswell's presumptuous task--the making of the greatest biography of all time. Sisman traces the friendship between Boswell and Samuel Johnson, his mentor, and provides a fascinating account of Boswell's seven...Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBorrowed Finery: A MemoirPaula FoxAmazonMilking the Moon: A Southerner’s Story of Life on This PlanetKatherine ClarkAmazonPositively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard FarinaDavid HajduAmazonThe Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Sca...

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe War Against Cliche: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000Martin AmisIs there anything that Martin Amis can’t write about? In this virtuosic, career-spanning collection he takes on James Joyce and Elvis Presley, Nabokov and English football, Jane Austen and Penthouse Forum, William Burroughs and Hillary Clinton. But above a...Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistAs Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and ArtRebecca SolnitAmazonDe/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone WrongW.D. SnodgrassAmazonIll Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other AnimalsJoy WilliamsAmazonMarginalia: Readers Writing in BooksH.J. JacksonAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerAusterlitzW.G. SebaldFrom one of the undisputed masters of world literature, a haunting novel of sublime ambition and power about a man whose fragmentary memories of a lost childhood lead him on a quest across Europe in search of his heritage. Jacques Austerlitz is a survivor ...Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistBel CantoAnn PatchettAmazonHateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: StoriesAlice MunroAmazonJohn Henry DaysColson WhiteheadAmazonThe CorrectionsJonathan FranzenAmazon

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerDouble Fold: Libraries and the Assault on PaperNicholson BakerSince the 1950s, some of the greatest libraries have dismantled much of their collections of original bound newspapers and books, replacing them with microfilmed copies. In this work the real motives behind the dismantling of our heritage is examined....Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistNeighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, PolandJan T. GrossAmazonSeabiscuit: An American LegendLaura HillenbrandAmazonThe Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric ChairSam RobertsAmazonThe Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change...

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2001 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSaving LivesAlbert GoldbarthA collection of poems ranges from serious and personal topics to odd historical facts....Amazon2001 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistA Treatise on PoetryCzeslaw MiloszAmazonAnimal SoulBob HicokAmazonGiven Sugar, Given SaltJane HirshfieldAmazonThe Seven AgesLouise GlückAmazon

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2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography/Autobiography Winner and Nominees

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography WinnerCharles Darwin: The Power of PlaceJanet BrowneTraces the life of the great British scientist, describes his travels as a naturalist, and traces the development of his theories....Amazon2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography/Autobiography ShortlistBenjamin FranklinEdmund S. MorganAmazonMaster of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroAmazonThe Last American ManElizabeth GilbertAmazonWill You Miss Me When I’m Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American MusicMark Zwonitzer with Charles HirshbergAmazon

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2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerTests of TimeWilliam H. GassThe author reflects on the nature of writing, reading, culture, history, politics, and public opinion in fourteen essays....Amazon2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistBright Earth: Art and the Invention of ColorPhilip BallAmazonOld Man GoyaJulia BlackburnAmazonPiano Notes: The World of the PianistCharles RosenAmazonRevieweryChristopher RicksAmazon

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2002 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerAtonementIan McEwanGENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. Atonement is a magnificent novel, shaped and paced with awesome confidence and eloquence', Independent .'Subtle as well as powerful, adeptly encompassing comedy as well as atrocity, Atonement is a richly intricate book- A superb...Amazon2002 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistMiddlesexJeffrey EugenidesAmazonNowhere ManAleksandar HemonAmazonRoscoeWilliam KennedyAmazonThe Darts of Cupid: And Other StoriesEdith TempletonAmazon