El premio del Círculo Nacional de Críticos del Libro (, NBCC) es un galardón para reconocer las mejores obras en cada una de las seis categorías publicadas cada año en inglés. Las categorías son: Ficción, No Ficción, Poesía, Autobiografía, Biografía, y Crítica.
Ganadores de 2022
Ficción : Ling Ma - Bliss Montage: Stories No Ficción : Isaac Butler - The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act Autobiografía : Hua Hsu - Stay True: A Memoir Biografía : Beverly Gage - G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century Poesía : Cynthia Cruz - Hotel Oblivion Crítica : Timothy Bewes - Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age Premio John Leonard : Morgan Talty - Night of the Living Rez Premio Gregg Barrios a libro traducido : Andréi Kurkov, traducido del ruso por Boris Dralyuk - Grey Bees Mención Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión : Jennifer Wilson Premio a la Trayectoria Ivan Sandrof : Joy Harjo Premio al Logro Toni Morrison : City Lights Premio al servicio NBCC : Barbara Hoffert
Ganadores del 2021
Ficción: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - The Love Songs of W.E.B DuBois No Ficción : Clint Smith - How the Word Is Passed Autobiografía : Jeremy Atherton Lin - Gay Bar: Why We Went Out Biografía : Rebecca Donner - All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler Poesía : Diane Seuss - frank: sonnets Crítica : Melissa Febos - Girlhood Premio John Leonard : :Anthony Veasna So - Afterparties Mención de Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión : Merve Emre Premio a la Trayectoria Ivan Sandrof : Percival Everett Premio al Logro Toni Morrison : Cave Canem Foundation
Ganadores del 2019
Ficción
Edwidge Danticat - Everything Inside
No Ficción
Patrick Radden Keefe - Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Autobiografía
Chanel Miller - Know My Name: A Memoir
Biografía
Josh Levin - The Queen: The Forgotten Life Behind an American Myth
Poesía
Morgan Parker - Magical Negro
Crítica
Saidiya Hartman - Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
Premio John Leonard
Sarah M. Broom - The Yellow House: A Memoir
Mención de Nona Balakian por excelencia en la revisión
Katy Waldman
Finalistas y ganadores del 2008 Los premiados (en negrita) fueron anunciados el 12 de marzo del 2009.
Ficción Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead) Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House) M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)
No ficción Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf) Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf) George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press) Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic) Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)
Autobiografía Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin) Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster) Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton) Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books) Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)
Biografía Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press) Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf) Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad) Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton) Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)
Poesía Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press) Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press) August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Pierre Martony (trans. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press) Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)
Crítica Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books) Vivían Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT) Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday) Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Readers’ History: Reader’s History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press) Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)
Mención Nona Balakian por estudio excelente Michael Antman Ron Charles Kathryn Harrison Laila Lalami Todd Shy
Premio Ivan Sandrof por una trayectoria de logros PEN American Center
Finalistas y ganadores de 2007 Los premiados (en negrita) fueron anunciados el 6 de marzo del 2008.
Ficción
Vikram Chandra, Sacred Games (HarperCollins) Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (Riverhead) Hisham Matar, In the Country of Men (Dial Press) Joyce Carol Oates, The Gravedigger's Daughter (Ecco) Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (Simon and Schuster)
No Ficción Philip Gura, American Transcendentalism (Hill & Wang) Daniel Walker Howe, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848 (Oxford University Press) Harriet Washington, Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (Doubleday) Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA (Doubleday) Alan Weisman, The World Without Us (Thomas Dunne BKs/St. Martin’s)
Autobiografía Joshua Clark, Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone (Free Press) Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I'm Dying (Knopf) Joyce Carol Oates, The Journals of Joyce Carol Oates, 1973–1982 (Ecco) Sara Paretsky, Writing in an Age of Silence (Verso) Anna Politkóvskaya, Russian Diary: A Journalist's Final Account of Life, Corruption and Death in Putin's Russia (Random House)
Biografía Tim Jeal, Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa’s Greatest Explorer (Yale University Press) Hermione Lee, Edith Wharton (Knopf) Arnold Rampersad, Ralph Ellison (Knopf) John Richardson, A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932 (Knopf) Claire Tomalin, Thomas Hardy (Penguin Press)
Poesía Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf) Matthea Harvey, Modern Life (Graywolf) Michael O'Brien, Sleeping and Waking (Flood) Tom Pickard, The Ballad of Jamie Allan (Flood) Tadeusz Różewicz, New Poems (Archipelago)
Crítica Joan Acocella, Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints (Pantheon) Julia Álvarez, Once Upon a Quniceanera (Viking) Susan Faludi, The Terror Dream (Metropolitan/Holt) Ben Ratliff, Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Mención Nona Balakian por estudio excelente Brooke Allen Sam Anderson, crítica de libro a New York magazine Ron Charles Walter Kirn Adam Kirsch
Premio Ivan Sandrof por una trayectoria de logros Emilie Buchwald, escritor, editor, and fundador de Milkweed Editions en Minneapolis
Ficción 2017 Joan Silber Improvement2016 Louise Erdrich LaRose2015 Paul Beatty El vendido2014 Marilynne Robinson Lila2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah2012 Ben Fountain Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk2011 Edith Pearlman Binocular Vision2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad2009 Hilary Mantel Wolf Hall2008 Roberto Bolaño 26662007 Junot Díaz The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao2006 Kiran Desai The Inheritance of Loss2005 E.L. Doctorow La gran marcha2004 Marilynne Robinson Gilead2003 Edward P. Jones El mundo conocido2002 Ian McEwan Expiación2001 W.G. Sebald Austerlitz2000 Jim Crace Being Dead1999 Jonathan Lethem Motherless Brooklyn1998 Alice Munro The Love of a Good Woman1997 Penelope Fitzgerald The Blue Flower1996 Gina Berriault Women in Their Beds1995 Stanley Elkin Mrs. Ted Bliss1994 Carol Shields The Stone Diaries1993 Ernest J. Gaines A Lesson Before Dying1992 Cormac McCarthy Todos los hermosos caballos1991 Jane Smiley A Thousand Acres1990 John Updike Rabbit at Rest1989 E.L. Doctorow Billy Bathgate1988 Bharati Mukherjee The Middleman and Other Stories1987 Philip Roth La contravida1986 Reynolds Price Kate Vaiden1985 Anne Tyler The Accidental Tourist1984 Louise Erdrich Love Medicine1983 William Kennedy Ironweed1982 Stanley Elkin George Mills1981 John Updike Rabbit Is Rich1980 Shirley Hazzard El tránsito de Venus1979 Thomas Flanagan The Year of the French1978 John Cheever The Stories of John Cheever1977 Toni Morrison Song Of Solomon1976 John Gardner October Light1975 E.L. Doctorow Ragtime
No ficción 2014 David Brion Davis The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation 2013 Sheri Fink Five Days At Memorial: Life And Death In A Storm-Ravaged Hospital 2012 Andrew Solomon Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity2011 Maya Jasanoff Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary War2010 Isabel Wilkerson The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration2009 Richard Holmes The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science2008 Dexter Filkins The Forever War2007 Harriet A. Washington Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans From Colonial Times to the Present2006 Simon Schama Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution2005 Svetlana Aleksiévich Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster2004 Diarmaid MacCulloch The Reformation: A History2003 Paul Hendrickson Sons of Mississippi2002 Samantha Power A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide2001 Nicholson Baker Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper2000 Ted Conover Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing1999 Jonathan Weiner Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior1998 Philip Gourevitch We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families1997 Anne Fadiman The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down1996 Jonathan Raban Bad Land: An American Romance 1995 Jonathan Harr A Civil Action1994 Lynn H. Nicholas The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War1993 Alan Lomax The Land Where the Blues Began1992 Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire1991 Susan Faludi Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women1990 Shelby Steele The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America1989 Michael Dorris The Broken Cord1988 Taylor Branch Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63,1987 Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb1986 John W. Dower War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War1985 J. Anthony Lukas Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families1984 Freeman Dyson Weapons and Hope1983 Seymour M. Hersh The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House1982 Robert Caro The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson1981 Stephen Jay Gould The Mismeasure of Man1980 Ronald Steel Walter Lippmann and the American Century1979 Telford Taylor Munich: The Price of Peace1978 Maureen Howard Facts of Life1977 Walter Jackson Bate Samuel Johnson1976 Maxine Hong Kingston The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts1975 R. W. B. Lewis Edith Wharton: A Biography
Autobiografía