National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction — Complete Winners List
51 years of winners · National Book Critics Circle · Since 1975 · ← Back to award page
| 2024 | Adam Higginbotham | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2023 | Roxanna Asgarian | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2022 | — | Bloomsbury Publishing | |
| 2021 | Clint Smith | Little, Brown | |
| 2020 | — | Harvard University Press | |
| 2019 | Patrick Radden Keefe | Doubleday | |
| 2018 | — | Penguin Press | |
| 2017 | — | Simon & Schuster | |
| 2016 | Matthew Desmond | Crown Publishers | |
| 2015 | — | Bloomsbury Press | |
| 2014 | — | Knopf | |
| 2013 | — | Crown Publishers | |
| 2012 | Andrew Solomon | Scribner | |
| 2011 | — | Knopf | |
| 2010 | Isabel Wilkerson | Random House | |
| 2009 | Richard Holmes | — | |
| 2008 | Dexter Filkins | — | |
| 2007 | Harriet A. Washington | — | |
| 2006 | Simon Schama | — | |
| 2005 | Svetlana Alexievich | — | |
| 2004 | Diarmaid MacCulloch | — | |
| 2003 | Paul Hendrickson | — | |
| 2002 | Samantha Power | — | |
| 2001 | Nicholson Baker | — | |
| 2000 | Ted Conover | — | |
| 1999 | Jonathan Weiner | — | |
| 1998 | Philip Gourevitch | — | |
| 1997 | Anne Fadiman | — | |
| 1996 | Jonathan Raban | — | |
| 1995 | Jonathan Harr | — | |
| 1994 | Lynn H. Nicholas | — | |
| 1993 | Alan Lomax | — | |
| 1992 | Norman Maclean | — | |
| 1991 | Susan Faludi | — | |
| 1990 | Shelby Steele | — | |
| 1989 | Michael Dorris | — | |
| 1988 | Taylor Branch | — | |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | — | |
| 1986 | Barry Lopez | — | |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lukas | — | |
| 1984 | Freeman Dyson | — | |
| 1983 | Seymour M. Hersh | — | |
| 1982 | Robert Caro | — | |
| 1981 | Stephen Jay Gould | — | |
| 1980 | Ronald Steel | — | |
| 1979 | Telford Taylor | — | |
| 1978 | Maureen Howard | — | |
| 1977 | W. Jackson Bate | — | |
| 1976 | Maxine Hong Kingston | — | |
| 1975 | R. W. B. Lewis | — |