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Book Awards » National Book Critics Circle Award - Literary Fiction

Categories: General Nonfiction, Literary Fiction, Memoir / Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Poetry, Autobiography / Biography
The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a nonprofit organization consisting of more than 600 active book reviewers from all over the country who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. Each year in March, they present awards to the best books published in English in six categories: Fiction, General Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Poetry, and Criticism. *In 2005 the category Autobiography/Biography was separated into Memoir/Autobiography and Biography.

2020
Hamnet
Hamnet
Author: Maggie O'Farrell
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 14

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2019
Everything Inside: Stories
Everything Inside: Stories
Author: Edwidge Danticat
  • Currently 4.3/5 Stars.
 3

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2018
Milkman
Milkman
Author: Anna Burns
  • Currently 3.2/5 Stars.
 5

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2017
Improvement
Improvement
Author: Joan Silber
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 3

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2016
LaRose
LaRose
Author: Louise Erdrich
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 9

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2014
Lila (Gilead, Bk 3)
Lila (Gilead, Bk 3)
Author: Marilynne Robinson
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 9

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2013
Americanah
Americanah
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  • Currently 4/5 Stars.
 14

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2012
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
Author: Ben Fountain
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 10

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2011
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
Author: Edith Pearlman
  • Currently 4.4/5 Stars.
 4

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2010
A Visit from the Goon Squad
A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: Jennifer Egan
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 87

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2009
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, Bk 1)
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, Bk 1)
Author: Hilary Mantel
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 81

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2008
2666
2666
Author: Roberto Bolano
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 19

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2007
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Author: Junot Diaz
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 396

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2006
The Inheritance of Loss
The Inheritance of Loss
Author: Kiran Desai
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
 326

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2005
The March
The March
Author: E. L. Doctorow
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 57

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2004
Gilead
Gilead
Author: Marilynne Robinson
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 313

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2003
The Known World
The Known World
Author: Edward P. Jones
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 488

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2002
Atonement
Atonement
Author: Ian McEwan
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 900

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2001
Austerlitz
Austerlitz
Author: Winfried Georg Sebald, Anthea Bell (Translator)
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 19

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2000
Being Dead
Being Dead
Author: Jim Crace
  • Currently 2.9/5 Stars.
 58

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1999
Motherless Brooklyn
Motherless Brooklyn
Author: Jonathan Lethem
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 170

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1998
The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
The Love of a Good Woman : Stories
Author: Alice Munro
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 31

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1997
The Blue Flower
The Blue Flower
Author: Penelope Fitzgerald
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
 43

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1996
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories
Author: Gina Berriault
  • Currently 4.6/5 Stars.
 4

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1995
Mrs. Ted Bliss (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Mrs. Ted Bliss (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Author: Stanley Elkin
  • Currently 1.5/5 Stars.
 1

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1994
The Stone Diaries
The Stone Diaries
Author: Carol Shields
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 307

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1993
A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Dying
Author: Ernest J. Gaines
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 379

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1992
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
All the Pretty Horses (Border, Bk 1)
Author: Cormac McCarthy
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
 378

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1991
A Thousand Acres
A Thousand Acres
Author: Jane Smiley
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 285

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1990
Rabbit at Rest (Harry Rabbit Angstrom, Bk 4)
Rabbit at Rest (Harry Rabbit Angstrom, Bk 4)
Author: John Updike
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 22

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1989
Billy Bathgate
Billy Bathgate
Author: E. L. Doctorow
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 16

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1988
The Middleman and Other Stories
The Middleman and Other Stories
Author: Bharati Mukherjee
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 5

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1987
The Counterlife
The Counterlife
Author: Philip Roth
  • Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
 3

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1986
Kate Vaiden
Kate Vaiden
Author: Reynolds Price
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 22

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1985
The Accidental Tourist
The Accidental Tourist
Author: Anne Tyler
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 88

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1984
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, Bk 1)
Love Medicine (Love Medicine, Bk 1)
Author: Louise Erdrich
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 90

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1983
Ironweed
Ironweed
Author: William J. Kennedy
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 116

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1982
George Mills
George Mills
Author: Stanley Elkin
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
 1

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1981
Rabbit is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, Bk 3)
Rabbit is Rich (Rabbit Angstrom, Bk 3)
Author: John Updike
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 29

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1980
The Transit of Venus
The Transit of Venus
Author: Shirley Hazzard
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
 20

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1979
The Year of the French
The Year of the French
Author: Thomas Flanagan
  • Currently 5/5 Stars.
 3

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1978
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever
Author: John Cheever
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
 9

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1977
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon
Author: Toni Morrison
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 302

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1976
October Light
October Light
Author: John Gardner
  ?

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1975
Ragtime
Ragtime
Author: E. L. Doctorow
  • Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
 104

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