Sunday, November 24

National Book Critics Circle Award

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...
2010 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerOne with Others: [a little book of her days]C. D. Wright’s...Amazon2010 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistLightheadTerrance HayesAmazonNoxAnne CarsonAmazonThe Best of It: New and Selected PoemsKay RyanAmazonThe Eternal CityKathleen GraberAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerGeorge F. Kennan: An American LifeJohn Lewis GaddisA portrait of the Cold War strategist offers insight into his complex, troubled character while tracing his role in defining U.S. policy, covering his critical views on American diplomacy and his struggles with depression....Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistDeng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. VogelAmazonHemingway’s Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost , 1934-1961Paul HendricksonAmazonLove and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the RevolutionMary GabrielAmazonMalcolm X: A Life of ReinventionManning MarableAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerOtherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and ReviewsGeoff Dyer*Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism* *A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice* *A New York Times Top 10 Nonfiction Book of the Year, as selected by Dwight Garner* Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistIs That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of EverythingDavid BellosAmazonKaraoke CultureDubravka UgresicAmazonOut of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock MusicEllen WillisAmazonThe Ecstasy of InfluenceJonathan LethemAmazon
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBinocular VisionEdith PearlmanTenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection....Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistOpen CityTeju ColeAmazonStone ArabiaDana SpiottaAmazonThe Marriage PlotJeffrey EugenidesAmazonThe Stranger’s ChildAlan HollinghurstAmazon
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
2011 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry WinnerSpace, in ChainsLaura Kasischke"Space, in Chains" speaks in ghostly voices, fractured narratives, songs, prayers, and dark riddles as it moves through contemporary tragedies of grief and the complex succession of generations. In her eighth book of poetry, Laura Kasischke has pared the c...Amazon2011 National Book Critics Circle Award - Poetry ShortlistCore Samples from the WorldForrest GanderAmazonDevotionsBruce SmithAmazonKingdom AnimaliaAracelis GirmayAmazonThe Chameleon CouchYusef KomunyakaaAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Biography Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography WinnerThe Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon JohnsonRobert A. CaroExamines Lyndon Johnson's volatile relationships with John and Robert Kennedy, describes JFK's assassination from Johnson's viewpoint, and recounts his accomplishments as president before they were overshadowed by the Vietnam War....Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Biography ShortlistAll We Know: Three LivesLisa CohenAmazonPortrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraAmazonRobert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A BiographyLisa JarnotAmazonThe Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte CristoTom ReissAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Criticism Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism WinnerStranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian NightsMarina WarnerOur foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exotici...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Criticism ShortlistRack, and HoneyMary Ruefle MadnessAmazonReinventing BachPaul ElieAmazonThe Grey Album: On the Blackness of BlacknessKevin YoungAmazonWaiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop CultureDaniel MendelsohnAmazon
2012 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction WinnerBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime WalkBen FountainNew York Times Bestseller Now a Major Motion Picture “Brilliantly done . . . grand, intimate, and joyous.” —New York Times Book Review “Mothers, father, sons, and daughters: read this giant-hearted novel.” —MARIA SEMPLE, author of Where’d You Go, Bernadett...Amazon2012 National Book Critics Circle Award - Fiction ShortlistHHhH. tr. by Sam TaylorLaurent BinetAmazonMagnificenceLydia MilletAmazonNWZadie SmithAmazonThe Orphan Master’s SonAdam JohnsonAmazon