The latest winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction is featured below along with a complete list of all past winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction. We also provide links to the winners of other NBCC awards, and a link to our index of the dozens of book awards featured on Happy Dead Trees.

The National Book Critics Circle Awards are presented annually for the best books and criticism written in English.

The latest winner of The National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

2007 - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington  [2008 award will be announced Spring 2009]

Complete list of all past winners of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Nonfiction

1981 - The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould

1982 - The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro

1983 - The Price of Power: Kissinger In the Nixon White House by Seymour M. Hersh

1985 - Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade In the Lives of Three American Families by J. Anthony Lukas

1986 - War Without Mercy: Race and Power In the Pacific War by John W. Dower

1987 - The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes

1988 - Parting the Waters: America In the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch

1989 - The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris

1990 - The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America by Shelby Steele

1991 - Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi

1992 - Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean

1993 - The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax

1994 - The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures In the Third Reich and the Second World War by Lynn H. Nicholas

1995 - A Civil Action by Jonathon Harr

1996 - Bad Land by Jonathan Raban

1997 - The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

1998 - We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families by Philip Gourevitch

1999 - Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest For the Origins of Behavior by Jonathan Weiner

2000 - Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing by Ted Conover

2001 - Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault On Paper by Nicholson Baker

2002 - A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power

2003 - Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson

2004 - The Reformation: A History by Diarmaid MacCulloch

2005 - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich

2006 - Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama

2007 - Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experiments on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet Washington

2008 - Will be announced Spring 2009

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