National Book Critics Circle Award - General Non-Fiction

Christchurch City Libraries lists literary prize winners and links to catalogue searches, but we may not hold copies of all titles mentioned.

2008

The Forever War Winner

Dexter Filkins

This Republic of Suffering: Death and the Civil War

Drew Gilpin Faust

The Dark Side

Jane Mayer

White Protestant Nation

Allan Lichtman

From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776

George C. Herring

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