National Book Critics Circle Award

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  1. Book ImageSomewhere Towards the End: A Memoir

    Diana Athill

    Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging —“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).More

  2. Book ImageThe School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004

    Adrienne Rich

    "Trust Rich, a clarion poet of conscience, to get the fractured timbre of the times just right."--Booklist, starred reviewMore

  3. Book ImageEarly Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems

    B. H. Fairchild

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.More

  4. Book ImageKhrushchev: The Man and His Era

    William Taubman

    Shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award: "The book is a gift, as fascinating as it is important."—Robert Legvold, Foreign AffairsMore

  5. Book ImageA Coast of Trees

    A. R. Ammons

    This collection of shorter poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1981.More

  6. Book ImageThe Mismeasure of Man

    Stephen Jay Gould

    Revised & Expanded

    The definitive refutation to the argument of The Bell Curve.More

  7. Book ImageThe Forbidden Best-Sellers of Pre-Revolutionary France

    Robert Darnton

    Robert Darnton's work is one of the main reasons that cultural history has become an exciting study central to our understanding of the past.More