National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2024	Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space	Adam Higginbotham	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2023	We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America	Roxanna Asgarian	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2022	The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act	—	Bloomsbury Publishing
2021	How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America	Clint Smith	Little, Brown
2020	Island on Fire: The Revolt That Ended Slavery in the British Empire	—	Harvard University Press
2019	Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland	Patrick Radden Keefe	Doubleday
2018	Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan	—	Penguin Press
2017	The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America	—	Simon & Schuster
2016	Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City	Matthew Desmond	Crown Publishers
2015	Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic	—	Bloomsbury Press
2014	The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation	—	Knopf
2013	Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital	—	Crown Publishers
2012	Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity	Andrew Solomon	Scribner
2011	Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World	—	Knopf
2010	The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration	Isabel Wilkerson	Random House