National (US) Book Critics Circle Award winners and finalists

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  • 1975 Winners
  • Fiction:
  • E.L. Doctorow, Ragtime
  • General Nonfiction:
  • R.W.B. Lewis, Edith Wharton: A Biography
  • Poetry:
  • John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
  • Criticism:
  • Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory
  • 1976 Awards
  • Fiction
  • John Gardner, October Light (Winner)
  • Renata Adler, Speedboat
  • Vladimir Nabokov, Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
  • Cynthia Ozick, Bloodshed and Three Novellas
  • Richard Yates, The Easter Parade
  • General Nonfiction
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (Winner)
  • George Dangerfield, The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations
  • Alex Haley, Roots
  • Irving Howe with Kenneth Libo, World of Our Fathers
  • Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
  • Poetry
  • Elizabeth Bishop, Geography III (Winner)
  • Philip Levine, The Names of the Lost
  • Muriel Rukeyser, The Gates
  • Louis Simpson, Searching for the Ox
  • Richard Wilbur, The Mind-Reader
  • Criticism
  • Bruno Bettelheim, The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales (Winner)
  • Ada Louise Huxtable, Kicked a Building Lately?
  • Steven Marcus, Representations: Essays on Literature and Society
  • Charles Rosen, Arnold Shoenberg
  • E.B. White, ed. by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, Letters of E.B. White
  • 1977 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (Winner)
  • John Cheever, Falconer
  • Joan Didion, A Book of Common Prayer
  • Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
  • John Sayles, Union Dues
  • General Nonfiction
  • W. Jackson Bate, Samuel Johnson (Winner)
  • Michael Herr, Dispatches
  • David McCullough, The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
  • John McPhee, Coming into the Country
  • Carl Sagan, The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
  • Poetry
  • Robert Lowell, Day By Day (Winner)
  • John Ashbery, Houseboat Days
  • Stanley Plumly, Out-of-the-Body Travel
  • W.D. Snodgrass, The Fuhrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress
  • Gerald Stern, Lucky Life
  • Criticism
  • Susan Sontag, On Photography (Winner)
  • Arlene Croce, Afterimages
  • Morris Dickstein, Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
  • Richard Poirier, Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing
  • Gore Vidal, Matters of Fact and of Fiction: Essays, 1973-1976
  • 1978 Awards
  • Fiction
  • John Cheever, The Stories of John Cheever (Winner)
  • John Updike, The Coup
  • Mary Gordon, Final Payments
  • John Irving, The World According to Garp
  • Charles Simmons, Wrinkles
  • General Nonfiction
  • Maureen Howard, Facts of Life (Winner - tie)
  • Garry Willis, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Winner - tie)
  • Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
  • Theodore H. White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure
  • Barrington Moore, Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
  • Sissela Bok, Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
  • A. Scott Berg, Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
  • Alfred Kazin, New York Jew
  • Anne Hollander, Seeing Through Clothes
  • Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
  • Poetry
  • Peter Davison, ed., Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman (Winner)
  • Adrienne Rich, The Dream of a Common Language: Poems, 1974-1977
  • Mark Strand, The Late Hour
  • May Swenson, New & Selected Things Taking Place
  • John Hollander, Spectral Emanations: New and Selected Poems
  • Criticism
  • Meyer Schapior, Modern Art: 19th & 20th Centuries, Selected Papers (Winner)
  • Malcolm Cowley, And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History, 1918-1978
  • Eudora Welty, The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
  • Edward W. Said, Orientalism
  • William H. Gass, The World Within the Word: Essays
  • 1979 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French (Winner)
  • Philip Roth, The Ghost Writer
  • William Styron, Sophie's Choice
  • Norman Mailer, The Executioner's Song: A True Life Novel
  • Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights
  • Leslie Epstein, King of the Jews: A Novel of the Holocaust
  • General Nonfiction
  • Telford Taylor, Munich: The Price of Peace (Winner)
  • Tom Wolfe, The Right Stuff
  • Joan Didion, White Album
  • Edward Hoagland, African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
  • Douglas Hofstadter, Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brain
  • Poetry
  • Philip Levine, Ashes and 7 Years from Somewhere (Winner)
  • Anthony Hecht, The Venetian Vespers
  • John Hollander, Blue Wine and Other Poems
  • David Smith, Goshawk, Antelope
  • Howard Moss, Notes from the Castle
  • Criticism
  • Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels (Winner)
  • Frances FitzGerald, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century
  • Richard Gilman, Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
  • Sandra M. Gilbert & Susan Gubar, The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
  • Robert Alter with Carol Cosman, A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
  • 1980 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Shirley Hazzard, The Transit of Venus (Winner)
  • E.L. Doctorow, Loon Lake
  • Anne Tyler, Morgan's Passing
  • Walker Percy, The Second Coming
  • William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
  • General Nonfiction
  • Ronald Steel, Walter Lippman and the American Century (Winner)
  • Jean Strouse, Alice James: A Biography
  • Maxine Hong Kingston, China Men
  • John Boswell, Christianity, Socail Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the 14th Century
  • Justin D. Kaplan, Walt Whitman: A Life
  • Poetry
  • Frederick Seidel, Sunrise (Winner)
  • Joseph Brodsky, A Part of Speech
  • Robert Penn Warren, Being Here: Poetry, 1977-1980
  • James Schuyler, The Morning of the Poem
  • James Merrill, Scripts for the Pageant
  • Criticism
  • Helen Vendler, Part of Nature: Modern American Poets (Winner)
  • Paul Fussell, Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars
  • R.P. Blackmur, ed. by Veronica A. Makowsky, Henry Adams
  • Vladimir Nabokov, ed. by Fredson Bowers, Lectures on Literature
  • Barbara Novak, Nature and Culture: American Landscape Painting, 1825-1875
  • 1981 Awards
  • Fiction
  • John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich (Winner)
  • Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise
  • Russell Hoban, Riddley Walker
  • Donald Barthelme, Sixty Stories
  • Leonard Michaels, The Men's Club
  • General Nonfiction
  • Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of a Man (Winner)
  • James Fallows, National Defense
  • T.J. Jackson Lears, No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920
  • Dumas Malone, The Sage of Monticello: Jefferson and His Time, Volume Six
  • Erving Goffman, Forms of Talk
  • Poetry
  • A.R. Ammons, A Coast of Trees (Winner)
  • Douglas Crase, The Revisionist
  • Daniel Hoffman, Brotherly Love
  • Donald Finkel, What Manner of Beast
  • Edward Hirsch, The Sleepwalkers
  • Criticism
  • Virgil Thomson, A Virgil Thomson Reader (Winner)
  • Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination: Forty Essays
  • Martin Gardner, Science: Good, Bad and Bogus
  • Edward Mendelson, Early Auden
  • Thomas G. Bergin, Boccaccio
  • 1982 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Stanley Elkin, George Mills (Winner)
  • Cynthia Ozick, Levitation: Five Fictions
  • Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant
  • Alice Walker, The Color Purple
  • Bobbie Ann Mason, Shiloh and Other Stories
  • General Nonfiction
  • Robert A. Caro, The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Winner)
  • The Nuclear Delusion: Soviet-American Relations in the Atomic Age, George F. Keenan
  • Jonathan Schell, The Fate of the Earth
  • Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe, Stolen Lightning
  • Kate Simon, Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood
  • Poetry
  • Katha Pollitt, Antarctic Traveller (Winner)
  • Jack Gilbert, Monoliths: Poems, 1962 and 1982
  • Brad Leithauser, Hundreds of Fireflies
  • Phyllis Janowitz, Visiting Rites
  • W.S. Merwin, Finding the Islands
  • Criticism
  • Gore Vidal, The Second American Revolution and Other Essays, 1976-82 (Winner)
  • Arlene Croce, Going to the Dance
  • Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity
  • Harold Bloom, Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism
  • Nina Auerbach, Women and the Demon
  • 1983 Awards
  • Fiction
  • William Kennedy, Ironweed (Winner)
  • Philip Roth, The Anatomy of a Lesson
  • Raymond Carver, Cathedral
  • Joan Chase, During the Reign of the Queen
  • Ron Loewinsohn, Magnetic Field(s)
  • General Nonfiction
  • Seymour M. Hersh, The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (Winner)
  • Roger Rosenblatt, The Price of Power
  • William W. Warner, Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman
  • Theodore Draper, Present History: On Nuclear War, D?nte and Other Controversies
  • David S. Landes, Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Joyce Johnson, Minor Characters (Winner)
  • Kenneth R. Manning, Black Apollo of Science: The Life of Ernest Everett Just
  • Nicholas Gage, Eleni
  • E. Fuller Torrey, The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeth's
  • Fred Kaplan, Thomas Carlyle
  • Poetry
  • James Merrill, The Changing Light at Sandover (Winner)
  • Jorie Graham, Erosion
  • Amy Clampitt, The Kingfisher
  • Cathy Song, Picture Bride
  • C.K. Williams, Tar
  • Criticism
  • John Updike, Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism (Winner)
  • John Rockwell, All American Music
  • Cynthia Ozick, Art and Ardor: Essays
  • Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing: Dutch Art in the Seventeenth Century
  • Helen Vendler, The Odes of John Keats
  • 1984 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine
  • David Leavitt, Family Dancing
  • Alison Lurie, Foreign Affairs
  • Jayne Anne Phillips, Machine Dreams
  • Harriet Doerr, Stones for Ibarra
  • General Nonfiction
  • Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope (Winner)
  • David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews
  • John Edgar Wideman, Brothers and Keepers
  • Robert Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History
  • Evan Connell, Son of the Morning Star
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Years of Ordeal, 1850-59 (Winner)
  • Susan Cheever, Home Before Dark
  • Elinor Langer, Josephine Herbst
  • Eudora Welty, One Writer's Beginnings
  • Paul Zweig, Walt Whitman: The Making of a Poet
  • Poetry
  • Sharon Olds, The Dead and the Living (Winner)
  • Robert Duncan, Ground Work: Before the War
  • Charles Wright, The Other Side of the River
  • Dick Allen, Overnight in the Guest House of the Mystic
  • John Ashbery, A Wave
  • Criticism
  • Robert Hass, Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry (Winner)
  • Donald Keene, Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era
  • David Bromwich, Hazlitt: The Mind of a Critic
  • Roger Shattuck, The Innocent Eye
  • Leo Steinberg, The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
  • 1985 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist (Winner)
  • Don DeLillo, White Noise
  • Peter Taylor, The Old Forest and Other Stories
  • Richard Powers, Three Farmers on Their Way to a Dance
  • Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove
  • General Nonfiction
  • J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families (Winner)
  • Tracy Kidder, House
  • Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
  • Alan Riding, Distant Neighbors: The Portrait of the Mexicans
  • Eva Keuls, The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Leon Edel, Henry James: A Life (Winner)
  • Elizabeth Frank, Louise Bogan
  • James Lord, Giacometti: A Biography
  • Leonard Arrington, Brigham Young: American Moses
  • Michael Lesy, Visible Light: Four Creative Biographies
  • Poetry
  • Louise Gluck, The Triumph of Achilles (Winner)
  • Amy Clampitt, What the Light was Like
  • Gjertude Schnackenberg, The Lamplit Answer
  • Galway Kinnell, The Past
  • James Merrill, Late Settings
  • Criticism
  • William Gass, Habitations of the World (Winner)
  • Paul Robinson, Opera and Ideas: From Mozart to Strauss
  • Robert Storey, Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: 19th Century French Literary Artistis and Comic Pantomine
  • Phillip Fisher, Hard Facts: Setting and Form in the AmericanNovel
  • Mary McCarthy, Occasional Prose: Essays
  • 1986 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Peter Taylor, A Summons to Memphis (Winner)
  • Louise Erdrich, The Best Queen
  • Reynolds Price, Kate Vaiden
  • Thomas Williams, The Moon Pinnace
  • John Updike, Roger's Version
  • General Nonfiction
  • Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams (Winner)
  • Bernard Bailyn, Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution
  • Jonathan Evan Maslow, Bird of Life, Bird of Death: A Naturalist's Journey Through a Land of Political Turmoil
  • John W. Dower, War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War
  • Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert: The American West and its Disappearing Water
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Arnold Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, Vol. I: 1902-1941 (Winner)
  • Jonathan Brown, Velazquez: Painter and Courtier
  • Theodore Rosengarten, Tombee: Portrait of a Cotton Planter
  • Art Spiegelman, Maus: A Survivor's Tale
  • Joseph Frank, Dostoevsky: The Stir of Liberation, 1860-1865
  • Poetry
  • Edward Hirsch, Wild Gratitude (Winner)
  • Irving Feldman, All of Us Here and Other Poems
  • Brad Leithauser, Cats of the Temple
  • Timothy Steele, Sapphics Against Anger
  • Anne Winters, The Key to the City
  • Criticism
  • Joseph Brodsky, Less Than One: Selected Essays (Winner)
  • Rene Wellek, A History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950: Vols. 5 & 6
  • Jerrold Siegel, Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics and Boundaries of Bourgeois Life
  • Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History
  • Arthur Danto, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (Columbia University Press)
  • 1987 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Philip Roth, The Counterlife (Winner)
  • Jane Smiley, The Age of Grief
  • Toni Morrison, Beloved
  • Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
  • Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety
  • General Nonfiction
  • Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Winner)
  • Randy Shilts, And the Band Played On: Politics, People and the AIDS Epidemic
  • James Miller, "Democracy Is in the Streets,"
  • Charles Mee, The Genius of the People
  • Stephen Jay Gould, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Donald Howard, Chaucer: His Life, His Work, His World (Winner)
  • Annie Dillard, An American Childhood
  • Prudence Crowther, ed., Don't Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S.J. Perelman
  • Paul Taylor, Private Domain
  • Arthur Miller, Timebends: A Life
  • Poetry
  • C.K. Williams, Flesh and Blood (Winner)
  • John Ashbery, April Galleons
  • Alan Shapiro, Happy Hour
  • May Swenson, In Other Words
  • Donald Justice, The Sunset Maker
  • Criticism
  • Edwin Denby, Dance Writings (Winner)
  • Robert Lowell, Collected Prose
  • Guy Davenport, Every Force Evolves a Form
  • Arlene Croce, Sight Lines
  • Josephn Horowitz, Understanding Toscanini
  • 1988 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Bharati Mukherjee, The Middleman and Other Stories (Winner)
  • Don DeLillo, Libra
  • Pete Dexter, Paris Trout
  • J.F. Powers, Wheat That Springeth Green
  • Raymond Carver, Where I'm Calling From: New and Selected Stories
  • General Nonfiction
  • Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (Winner)
  • James M. McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era
  • Neil Sheehan, A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
  • Jane Kramer, Europeans
  • Eric Foner, Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Richard Ellman, Oscar Wilde (Winner)
  • Paul Monette, Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir
  • Valerie Eliot, ed., The Letters of T.S. Eliot, 1909-1922
  • Paul Jay, ed., The Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Burke and Malcolm Cowley, 1915-1981
  • Robert Wright, Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information
  • Poetry
  • Donald Hall, The One Day (Winner)
  • Richard Wilbur, New and Collected Poems
  • John Hollander, Harp Lake
  • Kenneth Koch, One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays
  • Thomas McGrath, Selected Poems, 1938-1988
  • Criticism
  • Clifford Geertz, Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author (Winner)
  • Nelson George, The Death of Rhythm and Blues
  • Richard A. Posner, Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation
  • John Hollander, Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language
  • Robert Pinsky, Poetry and the World
  • 1989 Awards
  • Fiction
  • E.L. Doctorow, Billy Bathgate (Winner)
  • Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club
  • Oscar Hijeulos, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love
  • Jane Smiley, Ordinary Love & Good Will
  • John Casey, Spartina
  • General Nonfiction
  • Michael Dorris, The Broken Cord (Winner)
  • Tracy Kidder, Among Schoolchildren
  • Barbara Ehrenreich, Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
  • David Fromkin, A Peace to End All Peace: Creating the Modern Middle East, 1914-1922
  • Amy Wilentz, The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Geoffrey C. Ward, A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt (Winner)
  • Bil Gilbert, And God Gave Us This Country: Tekamthi and the First American Civil War
  • Otto Friedrich, Glenn Gould: A Life and Variations
  • Roger Moris, Richard Milhouse Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician
  • Tobias Wolff, This Boy's Life: A Memoir
  • Poetry
  • Rodney Jones, Transparent Gestures (Winner)
  • August Kleinzahler, Earthquake Weather
  • Robert Hass, Human Wishes
  • Thylias Moss, Pyramid of Bone
  • Nancy Willard, Water Walker
  • Criticism
  • John Clive, Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History (Winner)
  • William L. Vance, America's Rome
  • David Bromwich, A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frost
  • Charles Solomon, Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation
  • Cynthia Ozick, Metaphor & Memory: Essays
  • 1990 Awards
  • Fiction
  • John Updike, Rabbit at Rest (Winner)
  • Charles Johnson, Middle Passage
  • Sue Miller, Family Pictures
  • Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
  • Wallace Stegner, Collected Stories
  • General Nonfiction
  • Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America (Winner)
  • Mike Davis, City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
  • Alma Guillermoprieto, Samba
  • O.B. Hardison, Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the 20th Century
  • Kevin Phillips, The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Regan Aftermath
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Robert Caro, Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Winner)
  • John Espey, Strong Drink, Strong Language
  • Patricia O'Toole, The Five of Hearts: an Intimate Portrait of Henry Adams and His Friends, 1880-1918
  • Richard Rhodes, A Hole in the World
  • T.H. Watkins, Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes
  • Poetry
  • Amy Gerstler, Bitter Angel (Winner)
  • Frank Bidart, In the Western Night
  • John Haines, New Poems, 1980-88
  • Anthony Hecht, The Transparent Man
  • Charles Simic, The Book of Gods and Devils
  • Criticism
  • Arthur Danto, Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (Winner)
  • Stanley Crouch, Notes of a Hanging Judge: Essays and Reviews, 1979-1989
  • Irving Howe, Selected Writings, 1950-1990
  • Camille Paglia, Emily Dickinson
  • Wilfrid Sheed, Essays in Disguise
  • 1991 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Jane Smiley, A Thousand Acres (Winner)
  • Louis Begley, Wartime Lies
  • Gish Jen, Typical American
  • Richard Powers, The Gold Bug Variations
  • Norman Rush, Making
  • General Nonfiction
  • Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (Winner)
  • Thomas Geoghegan, Which Side Are You on? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back
  • Melissa Fay Greene, Praying for Sheetrock
  • Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
  • Dennis Overbye, Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos: The Scientific Quest for the Secret of the Universe
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Philip Roth, Patrimony: A True Story (Winner)
  • John Cheever, The Journals of John Cheever
  • Robert Kanigel, The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
  • Diane Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography
  • Art Spiegelman, Maus II
  • Poetry
  • Albert Goldbarth, Heaven and Earth: A Cosmology (Winner)
  • Diane Ackerman, Jaguar of Sweet Laughter: New & Selected Poems
  • Allen Grossman, The Ether Dome and Other Poems: New & Selected (1979-1991)
  • Philip Levine, What Work Is
  • Adrienne Rich, An Atlas of the Difficult World
  • Criticism
  • Lawrence L. Langer, Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory (Winner)
  • Norman F. Cantor, Inventing the Middle Ages: The Lives, Works & Ideas of the Great Medievalists of the Twentieth Century
  • J. Hoberman, Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media
  • Louise J. Kaplan, Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary
  • John Updike, Old Jobs
  • 1992 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses (Winner)
  • Randall Kenan, Let the Dead Bury Their Dead
  • Joyce Carol Oates, Black Water
  • Richard Price, Clockers
  • Robert Stone, Outerbridge Reach
  • General Nonfiction
  • Norman Maclean, Young Men and Fire (Winner)
  • Michael D. Coe, Breaking the Maya Code
  • Donald Katz, Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America
  • Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyay Life in Brazil
  • Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Carol Brightman, Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World (Winner)
  • Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958
  • Paul Hendrickson, Looking for the Light: The Hidden Life and Art of Marion Post Wolcott
  • Walter Isaacson, Kissinger
  • Edward O. Wilson, The Diversity of Life
  • Poetry
  • Hayden Carruth, Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 (Winner)
  • David Ferry, Gilgamesh
  • Maxine Kumin, Looking for Luck
  • Sharon Olds, The Father
  • K.C. Williams, A Dream of Mine
  • Criticism
  • Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remand America (Winner)
  • Frederick Crews, The Critics Bear It Away: American Fiction and the Academy
  • Dana Gioia, Can Poetry Matter? Essays on Poetry and American Culture
  • Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
  • Wallace Stegner, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West
  • 1993 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Ernest J. Gaines, A Lesson Before Dying (Winner)
  • E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News
  • Bobbi Ann Mason, Feather Crowns
  • Frances Sherwood, Vindication
  • Rikki Ducornet, The Jade Cabinet
  • General Nonfiction
  • Alan Lomax, The Land Where the Blues Began (Winner)
  • Rosemary Mahoney, Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age
  • George B. Schaller, The Last Panda
  • Russ Rymer, Genie: An Abused Child's Flight From Silence
  • David Remnick, Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Edmund White, Genet (Winner)
  • James Merrill, A Different Person
  • James Miller, The Passion of Michael Foucault
  • Alice Kaplan, French Lessons
  • David Levering Lewis, DuBois: Biography of a Race
  • Criticism
  • John Dizikes, Opera in America: A Cultural History (Winner)
  • Wayne Koestenbaum, The Queen's Throat
  • Geoffrey O'Brien, The Phantom Empire
  • Mark Rose, Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright
  • Gore Vidal, United States: Essays 1952-1992
  • 1994 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries (Winner)
  • Alan Isler, The Prince of West End Avenue
  • Julius Lester, And All Our Wounds Forgiven
  • William Gaddis, A Frolic of His Own
  • Julia Alvarez, In the Time of the Butterflies
  • General Nonfiction
  • Lynn Nicholas, The Rape of Europa (Winner)
  • Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson, Strange Justice
  • Abraham Verghese, My Own Country
  • Sherwin Nuland, How We Die
  • John Demos, The Unredeemed Captive
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Mikal Gilmore, Shot in the Heart (Winner)
  • Julia Frey, Toulouse-Lautrec
  • Brenda Maddox, D.H. Lawrence
  • Edward O. Wilson, Naturalist
  • Neal Gabler, Winchell
  • Poetry
  • Mark Rudman, Rider (Winner)
  • Dorianne Laux, What We Carry
  • Marilyn Hacker, Winter Numbers
  • Philip Levine, The Simple Truth
  • Mary Jo Salter, Sunday Skaters
  • Criticism
  • Gerald Early, The Culture of Bruising (Winner)
  • Jahan Ramazani, Poetry of Mourning
  • Harold Bloom, The Western Canon
  • Katha Pollitt, Reasonable Creatures
  • Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits
  • 1995 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Stanley Elkin, Mrs. Ted Bliss (Winner)
  • Richard Ford, Independence Day
  • Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2
  • Jane Smiley, Moo
  • Paul West, The Tent of Orange Mist
  • General Nonfiction
  • Jonathan Harr, A Civil Action (Winner)
  • Nicholas Basbanes, A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books
  • Madeleine Blais, In These Girls, Hope Is a Muscle
  • Fox Butterfield, All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence
  • Lawrence Weschler, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Robert Polito, Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson (Winner)
  • John Hockenberry, Moving Violations: War Zones, Wheelchairs and Declarations of Independence
  • Mary Karr, The Liars' Club
  • David S. Reynolds, Walt Whitman's America
  • Robert Richardson Jr., Emerson: The Mind on Fire
  • Poetry
  • William Matthews, Time & Money (Winner)
  • Lynda Hull, The Only World
  • James Merrill, A Scattering of Salts
  • Carl Phillips, Cortege
  • Ellen Bryant Voigt, Kyrie
  • Criticism
  • Robert Darnton, The Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolution France (Winner)
  • Stanley Crouch, The All-American Skin Game, or The Decoy of Race: The Long and the Short of It, 1990-1994
  • Thomas M. Disch, The Castle of Indolence: On Poetry, Poest and Poetasters
  • John Felstiner, Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew
  • Clifford Geertz, After the Fact
  • 1996 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Gina Berriault, Women in Their Beds (Winner)
  • Louis Begley, About Schmidt
  • Andre Dubus, Dancing After Hours
  • Jamaica Kincaid, The Autobiography of My Mother
  • Henry Roth, From Bondage
  • General Nonfiction
  • Jonathan Raban, Bad Land (Winner)
  • David Denby, The Great Books
  • Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners
  • Richard Kluger, Ashes to Ashes
  • Bernard Lewis, The Middle East
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes (Winner)
  • Peter Conn, Pear S. Buck: A Cultural Biography
  • David Hajdu, Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn
  • Alan Shapiro, The Last Happy Occasion
  • Jan Swafford, Charles Ives: A Life in Music
  • Poetry
  • Robert Hass, Sun Under Wood (Winner)
  • Stephen Dunn, Loosestrife
  • Martin Espada, Imagine the Angels of Bread
  • Jane Shore, Music Minus One
  • C.K. Williams, The Vigil
  • Criticism
  • William Gass, Finding a Form (Winner)
  • Gene H. Bell-Villada, Art for Art's Sake and Literary Life
  • Margaret Anne Doody, The True Story of the Novel
  • Dan Hofstadter, The Love Affair as a Work of Art
  • Cynthia Ozick, Fame and Folly
  • 1997 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Penelope Fitzgerald, The Blue Flower (Winner)
  • Don DeLillo, Underworld
  • Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
  • Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers
  • Philip Roth, American Pastoral
  • General Nonfiction
  • Anne Fadiman, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down (Winner)
  • Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air
  • James Kugel, The Bible as It Was
  • Pauline Maier, American Scripture
  • Stephen Pinker, How the Mind Works
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • James Tobin, Ernie Pyle's War (Winner)
  • Joseph Ellis, American Sphinx
  • Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf
  • Doris Lessing, Walking in the Shade
  • Poetry
  • Charles Wright, Black Zodiac (Winner)
  • Frank Bidart, Desire
  • Brenda Hillman, Loose Sugar
  • Mark Jarman, Questions for Ecclesiastes
  • Sonya Sanchez, Does Your House Have Lions?
  • Criticism
  • Mario Vargas Llosa, Making Waves (Winner)
  • John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination
  • Vivian Gornick, The End of the Novel of Love
  • Alfred Kazin, God and the American Writer
  • Helen Vendler, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
  • 1998 Awards
  • Fiction Winner
  • Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (Winner)
  • Michael Cunningham, The Hours
  • David Gates, Preston Falls
  • Lorrie Moore, Birds of America
  • Lynne Tillman, No Lease on Life
  • General Nonfiction
  • Philip Gourevtich, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Out Families: Stories from Rwanda (Winner)
  • Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost
  • Ira Berlin, Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
  • Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
  • Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford Engligh Dictionary
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind (Winner)
  • Ron Chernow, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
  • Homer H. Hickman Jr., Rocket Boys: A Memoir
  • David Remnick, King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
  • Amanda Vaill, Everbody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story
  • Poetry
  • Marie Ponsot, The Bird Catcher (Winner)
  • Pamela White Hadas, Self-Evidence
  • Thylias Moss, Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler
  • Ann Carson, The Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, Thieves of Paradise
  • Criticism
  • Gary Giddins, Visions of Jazz: The First Century (Winner)
  • Geoff Dyer, Out of Sheer Rage
  • Nelson George, Hip Hop America
  • Harold Bloom, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
  • Robert Pinsky, The Sounds of Poetry
  • 1999 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Jonathan Lethem, Motherless Brooklyn (Winner)
  • A. Manette Ansay, Midnight Champagne
  • Frederick Busch, The Night Inspector
  • J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace
  • David Gates, The Wonders of the Invisible World: Stories
  • General Nonfiction
  • Jonathan Weiner, Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior (Winner)
  • Jane Brox, Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History
  • John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
  • Patricia Hampl, I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory
  • Jean-Paul Kauffmann, The Black Room at Longwood: Napoleon's Exile on Saint Helena
  • Bigoraphy/Autobiography
  • Henry Wiencek, The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White (Winner)
  • Richard Holmes, Coleridge: Vol. II: Darker Reflections
  • Jean Strouse, Morgan: American Financier
  • Judith Thurman, Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette
  • Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones, The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times
  • Poetry
  • Ruth Stone, Ordinary Words (Winner)
  • Rafael Campo, Diva
  • Tory Dent, HIV, Mon Amour
  • Rita Dove, On the Bus with Rosa Parks
  • Susan Kingsolving, Dailies & Rushes
  • Criticism
  • Jorge Louis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions (Winner)
  • Stuart Klawans, Film Follies: The Cinema Out of Order
  • William Logan, Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry
  • Michael Schmidt, Lives of the Poets
  • David Shields, Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season
  • 2000 Awards
  • Fiction Winner
  • Jim Crace, Being Dead (Winner)
  • Amy Bloom, A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You
  • Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay
  • David Means, Assorted Fire Events: Stories
  • Zadie Smith, White Teeth
  • General Nonfiction
  • Ted Conover, Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing (Winner)
  • Fred Anderson, Crucible of War
  • Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War
  • Laurie Garrett, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health
  • Alice Kaplan, The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (Winner)
  • Robin Marantz Henig, The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the Father of Genetics
  • Victor Kemplerer, I Will Bear Witness: A Diary of the Nazi Years, 1942-1945
  • David Nasaw, The Chief: The Life of William Randolf Hearst
  • Jean-Yves Tadie, Marcel Proust: A Life
  • Poetry
  • Judy Jordan, Carolina Ghost Woods (Winner)
  • Michael Collier, The Ledge
  • Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
  • Yusef Komunyakaa, Talking Dirty to the Gods
  • Davis McCombs, Ultima Thule
  • Criticism
  • Cynthia Ozick, Quarrel & Quandary (Winner)
  • Jacques Barzun, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to Present
  • Claudia Roth Pierpont, Passionate Minds
  • Charles Rosen, Critical Entertainments: Music Old and New
  • Sherod Santos, A Poetry of Two Minds
  • 2001 Awards
  • Fiction
  • W.G. Sebald, Austerlitz (Winner)
  • Fiction
  • Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
  • Alice Munro, Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories
  • Ann Patchett, Bel Canto
  • Colson Whitehead, John Henry Days
  • General Nonfiction
  • Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (Winner)
  • Nina Bernstein, The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care
  • Jan T. Gross, Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
  • Laura Hillenbrand, Seabiscuit: An American Legend
  • Sam Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Adam Sisman, Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (Winner)
  • Paula Fox, Borrowed Finery: A Memoir
  • David Hajdu, Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina
  • Katherine Clark, Milking the Moon: A Southerner's Story of Life on this Planet
  • Barry Werth, The Scarlet Professor: Newton Arvin: A Literary Life Shattered by Scandal
  • Poetry
  • Albert Goldbarth, Saving Lives (Winner)
  • Louise Gluck, The Seven Ages
  • Bob Hicok, Animal Soul
  • Jane Hirshfield, Given Sugar, Given Salt
  • Czeslaw Milosz, A Treatise on Poetry
  • Criticism
  • Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971-2000 (Winner)
  • H.J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books
  • W.D. Snodgrass, De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Wrong
  • Rebecca Solnit, As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art
  • Joy Williams, Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals
  • 2002 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Ian McEwan, Atonement (Winner)
  • Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
  • Aleksandar Hemon, Nowhere Man
  • William Kennedy, Roscoe
  • Edith Templeton, The Darts of Cupid: An Other Stories
  • General Nonfiction
  • Samantha Power, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Winner)
  • Chris Hedges, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning
  • William Langewiesche, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center
  • Richard Rodriguez, Brown: The Last Discovery of America
  • Gaby Wood, Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life
  • Biography/Autobiography
  • Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: The Power of Place (Winner)
  • Robert A. Caro, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  • Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
  • Edmund S. Morgan, Benjamin Franklin
  • Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music
  • Poetry
  • B.H. Fairchild, Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest (Winner)
  • Major Jackson, Leaving Saturn
  • Harryette Mullen, Sleeping with the Dictionary
  • Sharon Olds, The Unswept Room
  • Adam Zagajewski, Without End: New and Selected Poems
  • Criticism
  • William H. Gass, Tests of Time (Winner)
  • Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color
  • Julia Blackburn, Old Man Goya
  • Christopher Ricks, Reviewery
  • Charles Rosen, Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
  • 2003 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Edward P. Jones, The Known World (Winner)
  • Monica Ali, Brick Lane
  • Richard Powers, The Time of Our Singing
  • Tobias Wolff, Old School
  • Caryl Phillips, A Distant Shore
  • General Nonfiction
  • Paul Hendrickson, Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy (Winner)
  • Caroline Alexander, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
  • Anne Applebaum, Gulag
  • Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
  • William T. Vollmann, Rising Up and Rising Down
  • Biography Winner
  • William Taubman, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (Winner)
  • Paul Elie, The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage
  • Blake Bailey, A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Work of Richard Yates
  • George Marsden, Jonathan Edwards: A Life
  • Carol Loeb Shloss, Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake
  • Poetry
  • Susan Stewart, Columbarium (Winner)
  • Carolyn Forch, Blue Hour
  • Tony Hoagland, What Narcissism Means to Me
  • Vénus Khoury-Ghata, translated by Marilyn Hacker, She Says
  • Mary Szybist, Granted
  • Criticism
  • Rebecca Solnit, River of Shadows (Winner)
  • Dagoberto Gilb, Gritos
  • Nick Hornby, Songbook
  • Ross King, Michelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling
  • Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others
  • 2004 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Winner)
  • Edwidge Danticat, The Dew Breaker
  • Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty
  • David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
  • Philip Roth, The Plot Against America
  • General Nonfiction
  • Diarmaid MacCulloch, The Reformation: A History (Winner)
  • Kevin Boyle, Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age
  • Edward Conlon, Blue Blood
  • David Shipler, The Working Poor: Invisible in America
  • Timothy Tyson, Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story
  • Biography
  • Mark Stevens & Annalyn Swan, De Kooning: An American Master (Winner)
  • Ron Chernow, Alexander Hamilton
  • Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Vol. 1
  • Stephen Greenblatt, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
  • John Guy, Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
  • Poetry
  • Adrienne Rich, The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (Winner)
  • Brigit Pegeen Kelly, The Orchard
  • D.A. Powell, Cocktails
  • James Richardson, Interglacial
  • Gary Snyder, Danger on Peaks
  • Criticism
  • Patrick Neate, Where You’re At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet (Winner)
  • Richard Howard, Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003
  • Graham Robb, Strangers: Homosexual Love in the 19th Century
  • Craig Seligman, Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
  • James Wood, The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel
  • 2005 Awards
  • Fiction
  • E.L. Doctorow, The March (Winner)
  • Mary Gaitskill, Veronica
  • Andrea Levy, Small Island
  • Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
  • William T. Vollmann, Europe Central
  • General Nonfiction
  • Svetlana Alexievich, Voices From Chernobyl: The Oral History of Nuclear Disaster (Winner)
  • Robert Fisk, The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East
  • Ellen Meloy, Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild
  • Caroline Moorehead, Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees
  • Anthony Shadid, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War
  • Biography
  • Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Winner)
  • Carolyn Burke, Lee Miller: A Life
  • Jonathan Coe, Like a Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
  • Ron Powers, Mark Twain: A Life
  • Autobiography/Memoir
  • Francine du Plessix Gray, Them: A Memoir of Parents (Winner)
  • Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
  • Judith Moore, Fat Girl: A True Story
  • Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul: Memories and the City
  • Vikram Seth, Two Lives
  • Poetry
  • Jack Gilbert, Refusing Heaven (Winner)
  • Simon Armitage, The Shout
  • Blas Manuel de Luna, Bent to the Earth
  • Richard Siken, Crush
  • Ron Slate, The Incentive of the Maggot
  • Criticism
  • William Logan, The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin (Winner)
  • Hal Crowther, Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-millennial South
  • Arthur Danto, Unnatural Wonders
  • John Updike, Still Looking: Essays on American Ar
  • Eliot Weinberger, What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
  • 2006 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Kiran Desai, The Inheritance of Loss (Winner)
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Half of a Yellow Sun
  • Dave Eggers, What is the What
  • Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land
  • Cormac McCarthy, The Road
  • General Nonfiction
  • Simon Schama, Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution (Winner)
  • Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
  • Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade
  • Michael Pollan, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
  • Sandy Tolan, The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East
  • Biography
  • Julie Phillips, James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon (Winner)
  • Debby Applegate, The Most Famous Man in Amerca: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher
  • Taylor Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968
  • Frederick Brown, Flaubert: A Biography
  • Jason Roberts, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler
  • Autobiography/Memoir
  • Daniel Mendelsohn, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million (Winner)
  • Donald Antrim, The Afterlife
  • Alison Bechdel, Fun Home
  • Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards
  • Teri Jentz, Strange Piece of Paradise
  • Poetry
  • Troy Jollimore, Tom Thomson in Purgatory. (Winner)
  • Daisy Fried, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again.
  • Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945-1971)
  • Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga
  • W.D. Snodgrass, Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
  • Criticism
  • Lawrence Weschler, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (Winner)
  • Bruce Bawer: While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within
  • Frederick Crews, Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
  • Daniel Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon
  • Lia Purpura, On Looking: Essays
  • 2007 Awards
  • Fiction
  • Junot Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao(Winner)
  • Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games
  • Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men
  • Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter
  • Marianne Wiggins, The Shadowcatcher
  • General Nonfiction
  • Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present(Winner)
  • Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism
  • Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848
  • Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA
  • Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
  • Biography
  • Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life Of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Winner)
  • Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton
  • Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison
  • John Richardson, The Life Of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932
  • Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy
  • Autobiography/Memoir
  • Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Winner)
  • Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
  • Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982
  • Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence
  • Anna Politkovskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist’s Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin’s Russia
  • Poetry
  • Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Winner)
  • Matthea Harvey, Modern Life
  • Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking
  • Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan
  • Tadeusz Rozewicz, New Poems
  • Criticism
  • Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Winner)
  • Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
  • Julia Alvarez, Once Upon a Quinceanera
  • Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream
  • Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
  • 2008 Awards (Nominations only to date)
  • Fiction
  • Roberto Bolaño, 2666
  • Marilynne Robinson, Home
  • Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project
  • M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
  • Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kittredge
  • General Nonfiction
  • Dexter Filkins, The Forever War
  • Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War
  • Jane Mayer, The Dark Side
  • Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation
  • George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776
  • Biography
  • Paula J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
  • Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family In An American Century
  • Patrick French, The World Is What It Is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul
  • Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
  • Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson
  • Autobiography/Memoir
  • Rick Bass, Why I Came West
  • Helene Cooper, The House On Sugar Beach
  • Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter
  • Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves Of Heaven
  • Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq
  • Poetry
  • August Kleinzahler, Sleeping It Off in Rapid City
  • Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light
  • Devin Johnston, Sources
  • Pierre Martory (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist
  • Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar _Criticism
  • Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life Of Jean-Luc Godard
  • Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life
  • Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One of Civilization’s Greatest Minds
  • Reginald Shepherd, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
  • Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader’s History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter
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National (US) Book Critics Circle Award winners and finalists 1975-2010