National Book Critics Circle Award

American Prometheus The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer By Bird, Kai

de Kooning: An American Master

Khrushchev The Man and His Era By Taubman, William

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place, Vol. II

Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr.Johnson

Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan By Bix, Herbert P

The Hairstons An American Family in Black and White By Wiencek, Henry

A Beautiful Mind The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash By Nasar, Sylvia

Ernie Pyle's War: America's Eyewitness to World War II

Angela's Ashes A Memoir By McCourt, Frank