Saturday, December 28

National Book Critics Circle Award

2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – General Nonfiction Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction WinnerRough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American RevolutionSimon SchamaIf you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, which side would you want to win? When the last British governor of Virginia declared that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the king would be emancipated, tens of thousands of ...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - General Nonfiction ShortlistThe Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. WadeAnne FesslerAmazonThe Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle EastSandy TolanAmazonThe Occupation: War and Resistance in IraqPatrick CockburnAmazonThe Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural Hi...
2006 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerTom Thomson in PurgatoryTroy Jollimore...Amazon2006 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistMy Brother is Getting Arrested AgainDaisy FriedAmazonNot for Specialists: New and Selected PoemsW.D. SnodgrassAmazonOoga-BoogaFrederick SeidelAmazonPoems (1945-1971)Miltos SachtourisAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerStanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest ExplorerTim JealHenry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the reality of Stanley's life is yet more extraordinary. Few people know of his dazzling trans-Africa journey, a heart-breaking epic of h...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistEdith WhartonHermione LeeAmazonRalph EllisonArnold RampersadAmazonThe Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932John RichardsonAmazonThomas HardyClaire TomalinAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerThe Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth CenturyAlex RossThe scandal over modern music has not died down. While paintings by Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock sell for a hundred million dollars or more, shocking musical works from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring onward still send ripples of unease through audiences....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistColtrane: The Story of a SoundBen RatliffAmazonOnce Upon a QuniceaneraJulia AlvarezAmazonThe Terror DreamSusan FaludiAmazonTwenty-Eight Artists and Two SaintsJoan AcocellaAmazon
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerThe Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar WaoJunot DiazLiving with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. A first novel by the author o...Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistIn The Country of MenHisham MatarAmazonSacred GamesVikram ChandraAmazonThe Gravedigger’s DaughterJoyce Carol OatesAmazonThe Shadow CatcherMarianne WigginsAmazon
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
2007 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerElegyMary Jo BangProvides a collection of poems examining grief and loss of an adult child....Amazon2007 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistModern LifeMatthea HarveyAmazonNew PoemsTadeusz RozewiczAmazonSleeping and WakingMichael O’BrienAmazonThe Ballad of Jamie AllanTom PickardAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerThe World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. NaipaulPatrick FrenchThis is the first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most compelling literary figures of the last fifty years. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recol...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistIda, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against LynchingPaula J. GiddingsAmazonThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American CenturySteve CollAmazonThe Hemingses of Monticello: An American FamilyAnnette Gordon-ReedAmazonWhite Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth HigginsonBrenda WineappleAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerChildren’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry PotterSeth LererEver since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistEverything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc GodardRichard BrodyAmazonMaimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest MindsJoel L. KraemerAmazonOrpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of PoetryReginald ShepherdAmazonThe Men in My LifeVivian GornickAmazon
2008 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction Winner2666Roberto Bolaño...Amazon2008 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistHomeMarilynne RobinsonAmazonOlive KittredgeElizabeth StroutAmazonThe Ballad of Trenchmouth TaggartM. Glenn TaylorAmazonThe Lazarus ProjectAleksandar HemonAmazon