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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating mostra altro with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

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Marzo 21: Vincitore2023 Recenti
Gennaio 25: Finalista2023 Recenti

Winner 36

OperaAnno
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation di David Brion Davis2014
Il capitale nel XXI secolo di Thomas Piketty2014
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution di Simon Schama2006
Preghiera per Černobyl' di Svetlana Alexievich2005
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 di Diarmaid MacCulloch2004
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy di Paul Hendrickson2003
voci dall'inferno di Samantha Power2002
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper di Nicholson Baker2001
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing di Ted Conover2000
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior di Jonathan Weiner1999
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda di Philip Gourevitch1998
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down di Anne Fadiman1997
Bad land: una favola americana di Jonathan Raban1996
A Civil Action di Jonathan Harr1995
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War di Lynn H. Nicholas1994
La terra del blues di Alan Lomax1993
Young Men and Fire di Norman Maclean1992
Contrattacco: la guerra non dichiarata contro le donne di Susan Faludi1991
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America di Shelby Steele1990
The Broken Cord di Michael Dorris1989
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 di Taylor Branch1988
L' invenzione della bomba atomica: 6 agosto 1945: l'inizio di una nuova era di Richard Rhodes1987
Artico: l'ultimo paradiso di Barry Lopez1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families di J. Anthony Lukas1985
Armi e speranza di Freeman Dyson1984
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House di Seymour M. Hersh1983
The Path to Power di Robert A. Caro1982
Intelligenza e pregiudizio. Contro i fondamenti scientifici del razzismo di Stephen Jay Gould1981
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] di Stephen Jay Gould1981
Walter Lippmann and the American Century di Ronald Steel1980
Munich: The Price of Peace di Telford Taylor1979
The Facts of Life di Maureen Howard1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence di Garry Wills1978
Samuel Johnson di W. Jackson Bate1977
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts di Maxine Hong Kingston1976
Edith Wharton: A Biography di R. W. B. Lewis1975

Finalist 170

OperaAnno
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation di David Brion Davis2014
Il capitale nel XXI secolo di Thomas Piketty2014
The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle Over a Forbidden Book di Peter Finn2014
La sesta estinzione: una storia innaturale di Elizabeth Kolbert2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free di Héctor Tobar2014
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War (Vintage Civil War Library) di Drew Gilpin Faust2008
From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 di George C. Herring2008
White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement di Allan J. Lichtman2008
The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals di Jane Mayer2008
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution di Simon Schama2006
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq di Patrick Cockburn2006
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade di Ann Fessler2006
Il dilemma dell'onnivoro di Michael Pollan2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East di Sandy Tolan2006
Preghiera per Černobyl' di Svetlana Alexievich2005
Cronache mediorientali: il grande inviato di guerra inglese racconta cent'anni di invasioni, tragedie e tradimenti di Robert Fisk2005
Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild di Ellen Meloy2005
Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees di Caroline Moorehead2005
Dove la notte non finisce mai di Anthony Shadid2005
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 di Diarmaid MacCulloch2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age di Kevin Boyle2004
Blue Blood di Edward Conlon2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America di David K. Shipler2004
Blood Done Sign My Name di Timothy B. Tyson2004
Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy di Paul Hendrickson2003
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty di Caroline Alexander2003
Gulag: storia dei campi di concentramento sovietici di Anne Applebaum2003
Una famiglia a caso: amore, droga e guai nel Bronx di Adrian Nicole LeBlanc2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} di William T. Vollmann2003
voci dall'inferno di Samantha Power2002
Il fascino oscuro della guerra di Chris Hedges2002
American Ground di William Langewiesche2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America di Richard Rodriguez2002
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life di Gaby Wood2002
Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper di Nicholson Baker2001
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care di Nina Bernstein2001
I carnefici della porta accanto: 1941. Il massacro della comunità ebraica di Jedwabne in Polonia di Jan T. Gross2001
Sono ancora un uomo: una storia epica di resistenza e coraggio di Laura Hillenbrand2001
The Brother: The Untold Story of the Rosenberg Case di Sam Roberts2001
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing di Ted Conover2000
Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 di Fred Anderson2000
Way Out There In the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War di Frances FitzGerald2000
Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health di Laurie Garrett2000
The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach di Alice Kaplan2000
Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior di Jonathan Weiner1999
Five Thousand Days Like This One: An American Family History di Jane Brox1999
Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II di John W. Dower1999
I Could Tell You Stories: Sojourns in the Land of Memory di Patricia Hampl1999
The Dark Room at Longwood: A Voyage to St Helena di Jean-Paul Kauffmann1999
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: Stories from Rwanda di Philip Gourevitch1998
Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America di Ira Berlin1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa di Adam Hochschild1998
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present di Roy Porter1998
L'assassino più colto del mondo. Una storia di follia e amore per i libri nell'Inghilterra vittoriana di Simon Winchester1998
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down di Anne Fadiman1997
Aria sottile di Jon Krakauer1997
The Bible as it was di James L. Kugel1997
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence di Pauline Maier1997
Come funziona la mente di Steven Pinker1997
Bad land: una favola americana di Jonathan Raban1996
Grandi libri. Le mie avventure con Omero, Rousseau, Woolf e gli altri immortali del canone occidentale di David Denby1996
I volenterosi carnefici di Hitler. I tedeschi comuni e l'olocausto di Daniel Goldhagen1996
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris di Richard Kluger1996
Il Medio Oriente: duemila anni di storia di Bernard Lewis1996
A Civil Action di Jonathan Harr1995
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books di Nicholas A. Basbanes1995
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle di Madeleine Blais1995
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence di Fox Butterfield1995
Il gabinetto delle meraviglie di Mr. Wilson di Lawrence Weschler1995
The Rape of Europa : The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War di Lynn H. Nicholas1994
The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America di John Putnam Demos1994
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas di Jane Mayer1994
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter di Sherwin B. Nuland1994
My Own Country: A Doctor's Story of a Town and Its People in the Age of Aids di Abraham Verghese1994
La terra del blues di Alan Lomax1993
Whoredom in Kimmage: Irish Women Coming of Age di Rosemary Mahoney1993
Lenin's Tomb: The Last Days of the Soviet Empire di David Remnick1993
Genie: a Scientific Tragedy di Russ Rymer1993
The Last Panda di George B. Schaller1993
Young Men and Fire di Norman Maclean1992
Breaking the Maya Code di Michael D. Coe1992
Home Fires: An Intimate Portrait of One Middle-Class Family in Postwar America di Donald R. Katz1992
Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil di Nancy Scheper-Hughes1992
Contrattacco: la guerra non dichiarata contro le donne di Susan Faludi1991
Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back di Thomas Geoghegan1991
Praying for Sheetrock: A Work of Nonfiction di Melissa Fay Greene1991
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools di Jonathan Kozol1991
Cuori solitari del cosmo. Chi sono e come lavorano gli scienziati che studiano l'universo di Dennis Overbye1991
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America di Shelby Steele1990
Citta di quarzo: indagando sul futuro a Los Angeles di Mike Davis1990
Samba di Alma Guillermoprieto1990
Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century di Jr. O. B. Hardison1990
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath di Kevin P. Phillips1990
The Broken Cord di Michael Dorris1989
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class di Barbara Ehrenreich1989
A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East di David Fromkin1989
Un posto che si chiama scuola di Tracy Kidder1989
The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier di Amy Wilentz1989
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954–63 di Taylor Branch1988
Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877 di Eric Foner1988
Europeans di Jane Kramer1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era di James M. McPherson1988
Vietnam. Una sporca bugia di Neil Sheehan1988
L' invenzione della bomba atomica: 6 agosto 1945: l'inizio di una nuova era di Richard Rhodes1987
La freccia del tempo, il ciclo del tempo: mito e metafora nella scoperta del tempo di Stephen Jay Gould1987
The Genius of the People di Charles L. Mee1987
Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago, With a New Preface by the Author di Jim Miller1987
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic di Randy Shilts1987
Artico: l'ultimo paradiso di Barry Lopez1986
Voyagers to the West: A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution di Bernard Bailyn1986
War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War di John W. Dower1986
Bird of Life, Bird of Death di Jonathan Evan Maslow1986
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water di Marc Reisner1986
Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families di J. Anthony Lukas1985
The Reign of the Phallus: Sexual Politics in Ancient Athens di Eva C. Keuls1985
House di Tracy Kidder1985
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans di Alan Riding1985
The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World di Elaine Scarry1985
Armi e speranza di Freeman Dyson1984
Son of the Morning Star di Evan S. Connell1984
Il grande massacro dei gatti e altri episodi della storia culturale francese di Robert Darnton1984
Brothers and Keepers di John Edgar Wideman1984
The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust 1941-1945 di David S. Wyman1984
The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House di Seymour M. Hersh1983
Present History di Theodore Draper1983
Storia del tempo: l'orologio e la nascita del mondo moderno di David S. Landes1983
Children of War di Roger Rosenblatt1983
Distant Water: The Fate of the North Atlantic Fisherman di William W. Warner1983
The Path to Power di Robert A. Caro1982
Nuclear Delusion di George F. Kennan1982
Stolen Lightning: The Social Theory of Magic di Daniel Lawrence O'Keefe1982
The Fate of the Earth di Jonathan Schell1982
Bronx Primitive: Portraits in a Childhood di Kate Simon1982
Intelligenza e pregiudizio. Contro i fondamenti scientifici del razzismo di Stephen Jay Gould1981
The Mismeasure of Man [Revised & Expanded] di Stephen Jay Gould1981
National Defense di James Fallows1981
Forme del parlare di Erving Goffman1981
No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 di Jackson Lears1981
The Sage of Monticello di Dumas Malone1981
Walter Lippmann and the American Century di Ronald Steel1980
Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality di John Boswell1980
Walt Whitman: A Life di Justin Kaplan1980
China Men di Maxine Hong Kingston1980
Alice James: A Biography di Jean Strouse1980
Munich: The Price of Peace di Telford Taylor1979
The White Album di Joan Didion1979
African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan di Edward Hoagland1979
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid di Douglas Hofstadter1979
La stoffa giusta di Tom Wolfe1979
The Facts of Life di Maureen Howard1978
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence di Garry Wills1978
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius di A. Scott Berg1978
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life di Sissela Bok1978
Seeing through Clothes di Anne Hollander1978
New York Jew di Alfred Kazin1978
Il leopardo delle nevi di Peter Matthiessen1978
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt di Barrington Moore1978
Uno specchio lontano: Un secolo di avventure e di calamita Il Trecento di Barbara W. Tuchman1978
In Search of History: A Personal Adventure di Theodore H. White1978
Samuel Johnson di W. Jackson Bate1977
Dispatches di Michael Herr1977
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 di David McCullough1977
Coming into the Country di John McPhee1977
I draghi dell'Eden: considerazioni sull'evoluzione dell'intelligenza umana di Carl Sagan1977
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts di Maxine Hong Kingston1976
Damnable Question: A Study of Anglo-Irish Relations di George Dangerfield1976
Radici di Alex Haley1976
World of Our Fathers di Irving Howe1976
Simple Justice di Richard Kluger1976
Edith Wharton: A Biography di R. W. B. Lewis1975

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Finalists
(English, Scritto da un membro)
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns... The centerpiece of NBCC activities is the annual awards for the best book in six categories: autobiography, biography, criticism, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

Website

Winners
(English, Scritto da un membro)

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