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The National Book Critics Circle Award

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The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, consists of nearly 700 Active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns. Every year the NBCC presents awards for the finest books and reviews pupblished in English.

Fiction

2006  The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

2005  The March by E.L. Doctorow

2004  Gileadby Marilynne Robinson

2003  Known World,by Edward P. Jones

2002  Atonement by Ian McEwan

2001  Austerlitz
by W.G. Sebald

2000  Being Dead by Jim Crace

1999
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
1998
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro
1997
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
1996
Women in Their Beds by Gina Berriault
1995
Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin
1994
The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields
1993
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines
1992
All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
1991
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
1989
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
1988
The Middleman and Other Stories by Bharati Mukherjee
1987
The Counterlife by Philip Roth
1986
Kate Vaidenby Reynolds Price
1985
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler
1984
Love Medicineby Louise Erdrich
1983
Ironweed by William Kennedy
1982
George Millsby Stanley Elkin
1981
Rabbit is Rich by John Updike

Non-Fiction

2006  Rough Crossingsby Simon Scharma

2004  The Reformation:A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

2003  Sons of Mississippi,by Paul Hendrickson

2000  Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

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