National Book Critics Circle Award - General Non-Fiction

2007

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present Winner

Harriet Washington

American Transcendentalism

Philip Gura

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America 1815-1848

Daniel Walker Howe

Legacy of Ashes: A History of the CIA

Tim Weiner

The World Without Us

Alan Weisman

2006

Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution Winner

Simon Schama

The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq

Patrick Cockburn

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade

Anne Fessler

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

Michael Pollan

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew and the Heart of the Middle East

Sandy Tolan

2005

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral history of a Nuclear Disaster Winner

Svetlana Alexievich

The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East

Robert Fisk

Eating Stone: Imagination and the Loss of the Wild

Ellen Meloy

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

Caroline Moorehead

Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War

Anthony Shadid

2004

• The Reformation: A History Diarmaid MacCulloch Winner
• Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age Kevin Boyle
• Blue Blood Edward Conlon
• The Working Poor: Invisible in America David Shipler
• Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story Timothy B. Tyson

2003

• Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson Winner
• The Bounty: The True story of the Mutiny on the Bounty Caroline Alexander
• Gulag Anne Applebaum
• Random Family: Love, drugs, trouble and coming of age in the Bronx Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
• Rising up and rising down William T. Vollmann

2002

• “A Problem from Hell: America and the age of genocide Samantha Power Winner
• War is a force that gives us meaning Chris Hedges
• American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center William Langewiesche
• Brown: The Last discovery of America Richard Rodriguez
• Living Dolls: A Magical history of the quest for mechanical life Gaby Wood

2001

• Double Fold: Libraries and the assault on paper Nicholson Baker Winner
• The Lost children of Wilder: The Epic struggle to change foster care Nina Bernstein
• Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland Jan T. Gross
• Seabiscuit: An American legend Laura Hillenbrand
• The Brother: The Untold story of atomic spy David Greenglass and how he sent his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair Sam Roberts

 

• 2000 Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing Ted Conover
• 1999 Time, love, memory: A great biologist and his quest for the origins of behavior Jonathan Weiner
• 1998 We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families Philip Gourevitch
• 1997 The Spirit catches you and you fall down Anne Fadiman
• 1996 Bad Land Jonathan Raban
• 1995 A Civil Action Jonathan Harr
• 1994 The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War Lynn H. Nicholas
• 1993 The Land where the blues began Alan Lomax
• 1992 Young men and fire Norman Maclean
• 1991 Backlash: The Undeclared war against American women Susan Faludi
• 1990 The Content of our character: A New vision of race in America Shelby Steele