National Book Critics Circle Award2006

Given by National Book Critics Circle

Other Names: John Leonard Award, National Book Critics Circle Award finalist
30 Works 92,596 Books 3,167 Reviews 4.1
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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All, Winner (276), Finalist (1,264)
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Years:
All, 2023 (42), 2022 (17), 2021 (36), 2020 (37), 2019 (33), 2018 (32), 2017 (31), 2016 (31), 2015 (35), 2014 (31), 2013 (31), 2012 (29), 2011 (29), 2010 (31), 2009 (29), 2008 (31), 2007 (29), 2006 (30), 2005 (30), 2004 (24), 2003 (25), 2002 (25), 2001 (25), 2000 (24), 1999 (25), 1998 (24), 1997 (24), 1996 (25), 1995 (25), 1994 (26), 1993 (19), 1992 (24), 1991 (24), 1990 (24), 1989 (26), 1988 (23), 1987 (26), 1986 (23), 1985 (25), 1984 (25), 1983 (25), 1982 (17), 1981 (20), 1980 (20), 1979 (21), 1978 (25), 1977 (16), 1976 (20), 1975 (4)
Announced:
March 21: Winner2023 Recent
January 25: Finalist2023 Recent

Winner 6

WorkCategoryYear
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie PhillipsBiography2006
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence WeschlerCriticism2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFiction2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon SchamaGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnMemoir/Autobiography2006
Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy JollimorePoetry2006

Finalist 30

WorkCategoryYear
The Afterlife by Donald AntrimAutobiography/Memoir2006
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison BechdelAutobiography/Memoir2006
Strange Piece of Paradise by Terri JentzAutobiography/Memoir2006
Stuart: A Life Backwards by Alexander MastersAutobiography/Memoir2006
James Tiptree Jr: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie PhillipsBiography2006
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher by Debby ApplegateBiography2006
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor BranchBiography2006
Flaubert: A Biography by Frederick BrownBiography2006
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler by Jason RobertsBiography2006
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence WeschlerCriticism2006
While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within by Bruce BawerCriticism2006
Follies of the Wise by Frederick CrewsCriticism2006
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. DennettCriticism2006
On Looking: Essays by Lia PurpuraCriticism2006
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiFiction2006
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction2006
What Is the What by Dave EggersFiction2006
The Lay of the Land by Richard FordFiction2006
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon SchamaGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq by Patrick CockburnGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Wade by Ann FesslerGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael PollanGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy TolanGeneral Nonfiction2006
The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel MendelsohnMemoir/Autobiography2006
Tom Thomson In Purgatory by Troy JollimorePoetry2006
My Brother is Getting Arrested Again by Daisy FriedPoetry2006
Poems (1945-1971) by Miltos SachtourisPoetry2006
Ooga-Booga: Poems by Frederick SeidelPoetry2006
Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W. D. SnodgrassPoetry2006
The Road by Cormac McCarthy2006

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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, 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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