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The National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, established in 1975, is an annual American literary award presented by the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) to promote "the finest books and reviews published in English."[1] Awards are presented annually to books published in the U.S. during the preceding calendar year in six categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Memoir/Autobiography, Biography, and Criticism.

Books previously published in English are not eligible, such as re-issues and paperback editions. They do consider "translations, short story and essay collections, self published books, and any titles that fall under the general categories."[2]

The judges are the volunteer directors of the NBCC who are 24 members serving rotating three-year terms, with eight elected annually by the voting members, namely "professional book review editors and book reviewers."[3] Winners of the awards are announced each year at the NBCC awards ceremony in conjunction with the yearly membership meeting, which takes place in March.[2]

Recipients

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National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism winners and finalists
Year Author Title Result Ref.
1975 Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory Winner
1976 Bruno Bettelheim The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales Winner
1977 Susan Sontag On Photography Winner
1978 Meyer Schapiro Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries (Selected Papers, Volume 2) Winner
1979 Elaine Pagels The Gnostic Gospels Winner
1980 Helen Vendler Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets Winner
1981 Virgil Thomson A Virgil Thomson Reader Winner
1982 Gore Vidal The Second American Revolution and Other Essays Winner
1983 John Updike Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism Winner
1984 Robert Hass Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry Winner
1985 William H. Gass Habitations of the Word: Essays Winner
1986 Joseph Brodsky Less Than One: Selected Essays Winner
1987 Edwin Denby Dance Writings Winner
1988 Clifford Geertz Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author Winner
1989 John Clive Not by Fact Alone: Essays on the Writing and Reading of History Winner
1990 Arthur C. Danto Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present Winner
1991 Lawrence L. Langer Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of Memory Winner
1992 Garry Wills Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America Winner
1993 John Dizikes Opera in America: A Cultural History Winner
1994 Gerald Early The Culture of Bruising: Essays on Prizefighting, Literature, and Modern American Culture Winner
1995 Robert Darnton The Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France Winner
1996 William H. Gass Finding a Form Winner
1997 Mario Vargas Llosa Making Waves Winner
1998 Gary Giddins Visions of Jazz: The First Century Winner
1999 Jorge Luis Borges Selected Non-Fictions Winner
2000 Cynthia Ozick Quarrel & Quandary Winner
2001 Martin Amis The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews, 1971–2000 Winner
2002 William H. Gass Tests of Time Winner
2003 Rebecca Solnit River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West Winner
2004 Patrick Neate Where You're At: Notes From the Frontline of a Hip-Hop Planet Winner
2005 William Logan The Undiscovered Country: Poetry in the Age of Tin Winner [4]
Hal Crowther Gather at the River: Notes From the Post-Millennial South Finalist [5]
Arthur Danto Unnatural Wonders
John Updike Still Looking: Essays on American Art
Eliot Weinberger What Happened Here: Bush Chronicles
2006 Lawrence Weschler Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences Winner [6]
Bruce Bawer While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West From Within Finalist
Frederick Crews Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays
Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon
Lia Purpura On Looking: Essays
2007 Alex Ross The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century Winner [7][8][9]
Ben Ratliff Coltrane: The Story of a Sound Finalist [10]
Julia Alvarez Once Upon a Quniceanera
Susan Faludi The Terror Dream
Joan Acocella Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints
2008 Seth Lerer Children's Literature: A Readers' History: Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter Winner [11]
Richard Brody Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard Finalist [12][13]
Joel L. Kraemer Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization's Greatest Minds
Reginald Shepard Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry
Vivian Gornick The Men in My Life
2009 Eula Biss Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays Winner [14][15][16]
Stephen Burt Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry Finalist [14]
Morris Dickstein Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
David Hajdu Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture
Greg Milner Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music
2010 Clare Cavanagh Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West Winner [17][18]
Susie Linfield The Cruel Radiance Finalist [19]
Elif Batuman The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
Terry Castle The Professor and Other Writings
Ander Monson Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir
2011 Geoff Dyer Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews Winner [20][21]
David Bellos Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything Finalist [22][23][21]
Dubravka Ugresic Karaoke Culture: Essays
Ellen Willis Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
Jonathan Lethem The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
2012 Marina Warner Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights Winner [24][25]
Mary Ruefle Madness, Rack, and Honey Finalist [26][27][24]
Paul Elie Reinventing Bach
Kevin Young The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness
Daniel Mendelsohn Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
2013 Franco Moretti Distant Reading Winner [28][29]
Mary Beard Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations Finalist [30][31]
Janet Malcolm Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlman The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus
Hilton Als White Girls
2014 Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz The Essential Ellen Willis Winner [32][33]
Claudia Rankine Citizen: An American Lyric Finalist [34][35]
Vikram Chandra Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
Eula Biss On Immunity: An Inoculation
Lynne Tillman What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
2015 Maggie Nelson The Argonauts Winner [36]
Ta-Nehisi Coates Between the World and Me Finalist [37]
Leo Damrosch Eternity's Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
Colm Tóibín On Elizabeth Bishop
James Wood The Nearest Thing to Life
2016 Carol Anderson White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide Winner [38]
Mark Greif Against Everything: Essays Finalist [39]
Peter Orner Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live
Alice Kaplan Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
Olivia Laing The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
2017 Carina Chocano You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages Winner [40][41]
Kevin Young Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News Finalist [42][43]
Camille Dungy Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
Valeria Luiselli Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
Edwidge Danticat The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
2018 Zadie Smith Feel Free: Essays Winner [44][45][46][47]
Robert Christgau Is It Still Good to Ya?: Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017 Finalist [44]
Lacy M. Johnson The Reckonings: Essays
Terrance Hayes To Float in the Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight
Stephen Greenblatt Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
2019 Saidiya Hartman Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Stories of Social Upheaval Winner [48][49]
Maria Tumarkin Axiomatic Finalist [50]
Lydia Davis Essays One
Hanif Abdurraqib Go Ahead in the Rain
Peter Schjeldahl Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018
2020 Nicole R. Fleetwood Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration Winner [51][52][53]
Wendy A. Woloson Crap: A History of Cheap Stuff in America Finalist [54]
Cristina Rivera Garza Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country
Namwali Serpell Stranger Faces
Vivian Gornick Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-Reader
2021 Melissa Febos Girlhood Winner [55][56]
Mark McGurl Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon Finalist [57][58][59]
Amia Srinivasan The Right To Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century
Jesse McCarthy Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays
Jenny Diski Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?: Essays
2022 Timothy Bewes Free Indirect: The Novel in a Postfictional Age Winner [60]
Rachel Aviv Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Finalist [61]
Peter Brooks Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
Margo Jefferson Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
Alia Trabucco Zerán (trans. by Sophie Hughes) When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold
2023 Tina Post Deadpan: The Aesthetics of Black Inexpression Winner [62]
Grace Lavery Pleasure and Efficacy: Of Pen Names, Cover Versions, and Other Trans Techniques Finalist [63]
Naomi Klein Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World
Myriam Gurba Creep: Accusations and Confessions
Nicholas Dames The Chapter: A Segmented History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
2024 Hanif Abdurraqib There’s Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Winner [64][65]
Legacy Russell Black Meme: A History of the Images that Make Us Finalist [66]
Jesse McCarthy The Blue Period: Black Writing in the Early Cold War
Claire Bishop Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
Marianne Brooker Intervals

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