National Book Critics Circle Award2004

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
24 Works 64,421 Books 1,766 Reviews ½ 4.0
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 show more 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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Announced:
March 21: Winner2023 Recent
January 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 5

WorkCategoryYear
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark StevensBiography/Autobiography2004
Where You're At by Patrick NeateCriticism2004
Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonFiction2004
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCullochGeneral Nonfiction2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne RichPoetry2004

Finalist 24

WorkCategoryYear
Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowBiography2004
Chronicles: Volume One by Bob DylanBiography2004
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John GuyBiography2004
de Kooning: An American Master by Mark StevensBiography/Autobiography2004
Where You're At by Patrick NeateCriticism2004
Paper Trail: Selected Prose, 1965-2003 by Richard HowardCriticism2004
Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century by Graham RobbCriticism2004
Sontag and Kael: Opposites Attract Me by Craig SeligmanCriticism2004
The Irresponsible Self: On Laughter and the Novel by James WoodCriticism2004
Gilead by Marilynne RobinsonFiction2004
The Dew Breaker by Edwidge DanticatFiction2004
The Line of Beauty by Alan HollinghurstFiction2004
Cloud Atlas by David MitchellFiction2004
The Plot Against America by Philip RothFiction2004
Reformation : Europe's house divided : 1490-1700 by Diarmaid MacCullochGeneral Nonfiction2004
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin BoyleGeneral Nonfiction2004
Blue Blood by Edward ConlonGeneral Nonfiction2004
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David K. ShiplerGeneral Nonfiction2004
Blood Done Sign My Name by Timothy B. TysonGeneral Nonfiction2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne RichPoetry2004
The Orchard by Brigit Pegeen KellyPoetry2004
Cocktails: Poems by D.A. PowellPoetry2004
Interglacial: New and Selected Poems & Aphorisms by James RichardsonPoetry2004
Danger on Peaks by Gary SnyderPoetry2004

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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.

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Finalists
(English, Member-written)
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, Member-written)

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