National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction Winners by the Year

Newjack

2000 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Newjack

by Conover Ted

Acclaimed journalist Ted Conover sets a new standard for bold, in-depth reporting in this first-hand account of life inside the penal system.When Conover's request to shadow a recruit at the New York State Corrections Officer Academy was denied, he d… read more

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Time, Love, Memory

1999 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Time, Love, Memory

by Jonathan Weiner

Also the author of THE BEAK OF THE FINCH, Jonathan Weiner lives in Bucks County, PA.

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We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

1998 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

by Philip Gourevitch

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book about the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda in 1994, written by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch.

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

1997 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures is a 1997 book by Anne Fadiman that chronicles the struggles of a Hmong refugee family and their interactions with the health care system… read more

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Bad Land

1996 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Bad Land

by Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban is the author of Soft City, Arabia, Old Glory, Foreign Land, For Love and Money, Coasting , and Hunting Mr. Heartbreak . He won the W.H. Heinemann Award for Literature in 1982 and the Thomas Cook Award in 1981 and 1991. He has also e… read more

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The Rape Of Europa

1994 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Rape Of Europa

by Lynn H Nicholas

The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War is the title of a book and a subsequent documentary film. The book, by Lynn Nicholas, explores the Nazi plunder of looted art treasures from occupied c… read more

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The Land Where the Blues Began

1993 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Land Where the Blues Began

by Alan Lomax

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Young Men and Fire

1992 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Young Men and Fire

by Norman MacLean

Young Men and Fire is a non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean and edited by his son, John Norman Maclean. It is an account of Norman Maclean's research of the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and the 13 men who died there. The fire occurred in Mann G… read more

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Backlash

1991 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Backlash

by Susan Faludi

*Skillfully Probing the Attack on Women's Rights* "Opting-out," "security moms," "desperate housewives," "the new baby fever"--the trend stories of 2006 leave no doubt that American women are still being barraged by the same backlash messages that … read more

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The Content Of Our Character

1990 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Content Of Our Character

by Shelby Steele

Shelby Steele (born January 1, 1946, Chicago) is an American author, columnist, documentary film maker, and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, specialising in the study of race relations, multiculturalism and affirmat… read more

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Broken Cord

1989 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Broken Cord

by Michael Dorris

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Parting the Waters

1988 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Parting the Waters

by Taylor Branch

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The Making Of the Atomic Bomb

1987 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Making Of the Atomic Bomb

by Richard Rhodes

The Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award. The 900-page book is a narrative of the history of the people and ev… read more

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Common Ground

1985 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Common Ground

by J Anthony Lukas

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Weapons and Hope

1984 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

Weapons and Hope

by Freeman Dyson

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The Mismeasure Of Man

1981 Winner National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-Fiction

The Mismeasure Of Man

by Stephen Jay Gould

The Mismeasure of Man is a 1981 book written by the Harvard paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002). The book is a history and critique of the methods and motivations underlying biological determinism, the belief that "the social and econ… read more

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