The National Book Critics Circle, founded in 1974, is a non-profit organization consisting of more than 900 active book reviewers who are interested in honoring quality writing and communicating with one another about common concerns.

2010 Winners

Fiction

A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

Non-Fiction

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Biography

How To Live, or a Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell

Autobiography

Half A Life by Darin Strauss

Poetry

One With Others by C. D. Wright

Criticism

Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics by Clare Cavanaugh

National Book Critics Circle Award Website