National Book Critics Circle Award

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

De Kooning An American Master By Stevens, Mark

Khrushchev: The Man and His Era

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

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 By Tobin, James

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir By McCourt, Frank