De National Book Critics Circle Award is een jaarlijkse Amerikaanse literaire prijs voor Engelstalige boeken, uitgereikt door de National Book Critics Circle (NBCC).
Prijzen De belangrijkste prijzen zijn: fictie, non-fictie, poëzie, memoires/autobiografie, biografie en kritiek (criticism). Alleen nieuw verschenen boeken komen in aanmerking, herdrukken en pocket-uitgaven niet. Ook vertalingen, korte verhalen en essay-bundels zijn kanshebbers. De NBCC-leden verkiezen 24 personen om de boeken te nomineren en te jureren.
Fictie 2022 Ling Ma, Bliss Montage 2021 Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois 2020 Maggie O'Farrell, Hamnet 2019 Edwidge Danticat, Everything Inside 2018 Anna Burns, Milkman 2017 Joan Silber, Improvement 2016 Louise Erdrich, LaRose 2015 Paul Beatty, The Sellout 2014 Marilynne Robinson, Lila 2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah 2012 Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk 2011 Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New and Selected Stories 2010 Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad 2009 Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall 2008 Roberto Bolaño, 2666 2007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao 2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss 2005 E.L. Doctorow The March 2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead 2003 Edward P. Jones The Known World 2002 Ian McEwan Atonement 2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz 2000 Jim Crace Being Dead 1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn 1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman 1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower 1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds 1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss 1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries 1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying 1992 Cormac McCarthy All the Pretty Horses 1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres 1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest 1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate 1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories 1987 Philip Roth The Counterlife 1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden 1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist 1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine 1983 William Kennedy Ironweed 1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills 1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich 1980 Shirley Hazzard The Transit Of Venus 1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French 1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever 1977 Toni Morrison Song of Solomon 1976 John Gardner October Light 1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
Non-fictie 2022 Isaac Butler, The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act 2021 Clint Smith, How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America 2020 Tom Zoellner, Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire 2019 Patrick Radden Keefe, Say Nothing: The True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland 2018 Steve Coll, Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan 2017 Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America 2016 Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City 2015 Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Story of America’s Opiate Epidemic 2014 David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation 2013 Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital 2012 Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity 2011 Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World 2010 Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration 2009 Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science 2008 Dexter Filkins, The Forever War 2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present 2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings|Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution 2005 Svetlana Aleksijevitsj Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster 2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History 2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi 2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide 2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper 2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior 1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families 1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down 1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance 1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action 1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War 1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began 1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire 1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women 1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America 1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord 1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63, 1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb 1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War 1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families 1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope 1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House 1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Vol I 1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man 1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century 1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace 1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life 1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson 1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts 1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography
Poëzie 2022 Cynthia Cruz, Hotel Oblivion 2021 Diane Seuss, Frank: Sonnets 2020 Francine J. Harris, Here Is The Sweet Hand 2019 Morgan Parker, Magical Negro 2018 Ada Limón, The Carrying 2017 Layli Long Soldier, Whereas 2016 Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons 2015 Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude 2014 Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric 2013 Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog 2012 D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys 2011 Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains 2010 C.D. Wright, One With Others 2009 Rae Armantrout, Versed 2008 Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light en August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City 2007 Mary Jo Bang Elegy 2006 Troy Jollimore Tom Thomson in Purgatory 2005 Jack Gilbert Refusing Heaven 2004 Adrienne Rich The School Among the Ruins 2003 Susan Stewart Columbarium 2002 B.H. Fairchild Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest 2001 Albert Goldbarth Saving Lives 2000 Judy Jordan Carolina Ghost Woods 1999 Ruth Stone Ordinary Words 1998 Marie Ponsot The Bird Catcher 1997 Charles Wright Black Zodiac 1996 Robert Hass Sun Under Wood 1995 William Matthews Time and Money 1994 Mark Rudman Rider 1993 Mark Doty My Alexandria 1992 Hayden Carruth Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 1991 Albert Goldbarth Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology 1990 Amy Gerstler Bitter Angel 1989 Rodney Jones Transparent Gestures 1988 Donald Hall That One Day 1987 C.K. Williams Flesh and Blood 1986 Edward Hirsch Wild Gratitude 1985 Louise Glück The Triumph of Achilles 1984 Sharon Olds The Dead and the Living 1983 James Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover 1982 Katha Pollitt Antarctic Traveler 1981 A.R. Ammons A Coast of Trees 1980 Frederick Seidel Sunrise 1979 Philip Levine Ashes: Poems New and Old and 7 Years From Somewhere 1978 L. E. Sissman Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L. E. Sissman 1977 Robert Lowell Day by Day 1976 Elizabeth Bishop Geography III 1975 John Ashberry Self-Portrait in A Convex Mirror
Memoires/autobiografie 2022 Hua Hsu, Stay True: A Memoir 2021 Jeremy Atherton Lin, Gay Bar: Why We Went Out 2020 Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 2019 Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir 2018 Nora Krug, Belonging: A German Reckons With History and Home 2017 Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China 2016 Hope Jahren, Lab Girl 2015 Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir 2014 Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? 2013 Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti 2012 Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies 2011 Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace 2010 Darin Strauss, Half a Life 2009 Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End 2008 Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq 2007 Edwidge Danticat Brother, I'm Dying 2006 Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million 2005 Francine du Plessix Gray Them: A Memoir of Parents
Biografie 2022 Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century 2021 Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler 2020 Amy Stanley, Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World 2019 Josh Levin, The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth 2018 Christopher Bonanos, Flash: The Making of Weegee the Famous 2017 Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder 2016 Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life 2015 Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley 2014 John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh 2013 Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World 2012 Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson 2011 John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life 2010 Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne 2009 Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life 2008 Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul 2007 Tim Jeal Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer 2006 Julie Phillips James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon 2005 Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer 2004 Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan De Kooning: An American Master 2003 William Taubman Khrushchev: The Man and His Era 2002 Janet Browne Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II 2001 Adam Sisman Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson 2000 Herbert P. Bix Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan 1999 Henry Wiencek The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White 1998 Sylvia Nasar A Beautiful Mind 1997 James Tobin Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II 1996 Frank McCourt Angela's Ashes 1995 Robert Polito Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson 1994 Mikal Gilmore Shot in the Heart 1993 Edmund White Genet 1992 Carol Brightman Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World 1991 Philip Roth Patrimony: A True Story 1990 Robert A. Caro Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II 1989 Geoffrey C. Ward A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt 1988 Richard Ellman Oscar Wilde 1987 Donald R. Howard Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World 1986 Theodore Rosengarten Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter 1985 Leon Edel Henry James: A Life 1984 Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-1859 1983 Joyce Johnson Minor Characters
Kritiek (criticism) 2022 Timothy Bewes, Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age 2021 Melissa Febos, Girlhood 2020 Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration 2019 Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval 2018 Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays 2017 Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages 2016 Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide 2015 Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts 2014 Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz 2013 Franco Moretti, Distant Reading