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The National Book Critics Circle consists of more than 700 book reviewers. Since its founding in 1974, the NBCC's centerpiece has been annual awards for the best book in five categories: fiction, general nonfiction, biography/autobiography, poetry, and criticism. In addition, each year the NBCC awards the Ivan Sandrof Award for Contribution to American Arts and Letters and salutes one member of the Circle with the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.
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Fiction:
The Love of a Good Woman by Alice Munro--Winner!
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Preston Falls by David Gates
No Lease On Life by Lynne Tillman
The Hours by Michael Cunningham

General Nonfiction:
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch--Winner!
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind by Roy Porter
Many Thousands Gone by Ira Berlin

Biography and Autobiography:
A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar--Winner!
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow
King of the World by David Remnick
Everybody Was So Young by Amanda Vaill
Rocket Boys by Homer H. Hickam

Poetry:
The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot--Winner!
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Self-Evidence by Pamela White Hadas
Thieves of Paradise by Yusef Komunyakaa
Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler by Thylias Moss

Criticism:
Visions of Jazz by Gary Giddins--Winner!
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom
The Sounds of Poetry by Robert Pinsky
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
Hip Hop America by Nelson George
1997

Fiction:
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald--Winner!
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Underworld by Don DeLillo
American Pastoral by Philip Roth
Dreams of My Russian Summers by Andrei Makine

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General Nonfiction:
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman--Winner!
Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
The Bible As It Was by James L. Kugel
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence by Pauline Maier
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Biography and Autobiography:
Ernie Pyle's War by James E. Tobin--Winner!
Walking in the Shade by Doris Lessing
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J. M. Coetzee
Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson by Joseph J. Ellis

Poetry:
Black Zodiac by Charles Wright--Winner!
Loose Sugar by Brenda Hillman
Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Does Your House Have Lions? by Sonia Sanchez
Desire by Frank Bidart

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Criticism:
Making Waves by Mario Vargas Llosa--Winner!
God and the American Writer by Alfred Kazin
The End of the Novel of Love by Vivian Gornick
The Pleasures of the Imagination by John Brewer
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler

Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters:
Leslie Fiedler

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:
Thomas Mallon
1996

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Fiction:
Women in their Beds by Gina Berriault--Winner!
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
Dancing After Hours by Andre Dubus
The Autobiography of My Mother by Jamaica Kincaid
From Bondage by Henry Roth

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General Nonfiction:
Bad Land by Jonathan Raban--Winner!
The Great Books by David Denby
Hitler's Willing Executioners by Daniel Goldhagen
Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger
The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years by Bernard Lewis

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Biography and Autobiography:
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt--Winner!
Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography by Peter Conn
Lush Life: A Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu
The Last Happy Occasion by Alan Shapiro
Charles Ives: A Life with Music by Jan Swafford

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Poetry:
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass--Winner!
Loosestrife by Stephen Dunn
Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martin Espada
Music Minus One by Jane Shore
The Vigil by C. K. Williams

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Criticism:
Finding a Form by William Gass--Winner!
Art for Art's Sake & Literary Life by Gene H. Bell-Villada
The True Story of the Novel by Margaret Anne Doody
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter
Fame & Folly by Cynthia Ozick

Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters:
Albert Murray

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing:
Dennis Drabelle
1995

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Fiction:
Mrs. Ted Bliss by Stanley Elkin--Winner!
Moo by Jane Smiley
Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers
Independence Day by Richard Ford
The Tent of Orange Mist by Paul West

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General Nonfiction:
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr
A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas Basbanes
In These Girls, Hope is a Muscle by Madeleine Blais
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder by Lawrence Weschler

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Biography and Autobiography:
Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson by Robert Polito--Winner!

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Poetry:
Time & Money: New Poems by William Matthews--Winner!

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Criticism:
The Forbidden Best-sellers of Pre-revolutionary France by Robert Darnton--Winner!

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