National Book Critics Circle Award
		Nominees
		Previous Winners

FICTION
The March
by E.L. Doctorow

MEMOIR
Them
by Francine Du Plessix Gray

BIOGRAPHY
American Prometheus
by Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

GENERAL NONFICTION
Voices from Chernobyl
by Svetlana Alexievich

CRITICISM
Undiscovered Country
by William Logan

POETRY
Refusing Heaven
by Jack Gilbert

2004 Winners

FICTION
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson

GENERAL NONFICTION
The Reformation
by Diarmaid MacCulloch

BIOGRAPHY
De Kooning
by Mark Stevens

POETRY
The School Among the Ruins
by Adrienne Rich

CRITICISM
Where You're At
by Patrick Neate

2003 Winners

FICTION
The Known World
by Edward P. Jones

GENERAL NONFICTION
Sons of Mississippi
by Paul Hendrickson

BIOGRAPHY
Khrushchev
by William Taubman

POETRY
Columbarium
by Susan Stewart

CRITICISM
River of Shadows
by Rebecca Solnit

2002 Winners

FICTION
Atonement
by Ian McEwan

BIOGRAPHY
Charles Darwin: The Power of Place
by Janet Browne

GENERAL NONFICTION
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
by Samantha Power

POETRY
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest
by B. H. Fairchild

CRITICISM
Tests Of Time
by William H. Gass

2001 Winners

FICTION
Austerlitz
by W. G. Sebald, Anthea Bell (trans.)

GENERAL NONFICTION
Double Fold
by Nicholson Baker

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Boswell's Presumptuous Task
by Adam Sisman

POETRY
Saving Lives
by Albert Goldbarth

CRITICISM
The War Against Cliché
by Martin Amis

2000 Winners

FICTION
Being Dead
by Jim Crace

GENERAL NONFICTION
Newjack
by Ted Conover

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
by Herbert P. Bix

POETRY
Carolina Ghost Woods
by Judy Jordan

CRITICISM
Quarrel and Quandary
by Cynthia Ozick

1999 Winners

FICTION
Motherless Brooklyn
by Jonathan Lethem

GENERAL NONFICTION
Time, Love, Memory
by Jonathan Weiner

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
The Hairstons
by Henry Wiencek

POETRY
Ordinary Words
by Ruth Stone

CRITICISM
Borges
by Jorge Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (ed.), Andrew Hurley (trans.)

NONA BALAKIAN CITATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN REVIEWING
Benjamin Schwarz

1998 Winners

FICTION
The Love of a Good Woman
by Alice Munro

GENERAL NONFICTION
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
by Philip Gourevitch

BIOGRAPHY/AUTOBIOGRAPHY
A Beautiful Mind
by Sylvia Nasar

POETRY
The Bird Catcher
by Marie Ponsot

CRITICISM
Visions of Jazz
by Gary Giddins