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National Book Award Winners - Non-Fiction

Description: The National Book Awards are presented annually "to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of good writing in America." Here we present the Non-Fiction medal winners. #award #adults


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Year Title Author Date Added Action
1981 Walt Whitman Justin Kaplan 05/25/2017
1967 The Enlightenment Peter Gay 05/25/2017
1969 White Over Black Winthrop D. Jordan and Christopher Leslie Brown and Peter H. Wood 05/25/2017
2013 The Unwinding George Packer 05/25/2017
1960 James Joyce Richard Ellmann 05/25/2017
1962 The City in History Lewis Mumford 05/25/2017
1994 How We Die Sherwin B. Nuland 05/25/2017
1983 China Fox Butterfield 05/25/2017
1983 Voices of Protest Alan Brinkley 05/25/2017
1987 Making of the Atomic Bomb Richard Rhodes 05/25/2017
1980 Gödel, Escher, Bach Douglas R. Hofstadter 05/25/2017
1983 National Defense James Fallows 05/25/2017
1971 Roosevelt James MacGregor Burns 05/25/2017
2001 The Noonday Demon Andrew Solomon 05/25/2017
1980 The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe 05/25/2017
1992 Becoming a Man Paul Monette 05/25/2017
1977 World of Our Fathers Irving Howe 05/25/2017
2014 Age of Ambition Evan Osnos 05/25/2017
1972 Eleanor and Franklin Joseph P. Lash 05/25/2017
2011 The Swerve Stephen Greenblatt 05/25/2017
1975 Lives of a Cell Lewis Thomas 05/25/2017
1999 Embracing Defeat John W. Dower 05/25/2017
1978 Winners & Losers Frances Fitzgerald and Gloria Emerson 05/25/2017
2005 The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion 05/25/2017
1969 The Armies of the Night Norman Mailer 05/25/2017
1982 Lucy Maitland A. Edey and Donald C. Johansen 05/25/2017
1961 The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich William L. Shirer 05/25/2017
1975 All God's Dangers Theodore Rosengarten 05/25/2017
1998 Slaves in the Family Edward Ball 05/25/2017
1965 The Oysters of Locmariaquer Eleanor Clark 05/25/2017
1959 Mistress To An Age J. Christopher Herold 05/25/2017
1966 A Thousand Days Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 05/25/2017
1981 Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality John Boswell 05/25/2017
1973 Fire in the Lake Frances Fitzgerald 05/25/2017
1954 Bruce Catton's Civil War Bruce Catton 05/25/2017
1967 Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain Justin Kaplan 05/25/2017
1976 Passage to Ararat Michael J. Arlen 05/25/2017
1989 From Beirut to Jerusalem Thomas L. Friedman 05/25/2017
1997 American Sphinx Joseph J. Ellis 05/25/2017
2010 Just Kids Patti Smith 05/25/2017
1985 Common Ground J. Anthony Lukas 05/25/2017
1951 Herman Melville Newton Arvin 05/25/2017
1972 The Classical Style Charles Rosen 05/25/2017
1988 A Bright Shining Lie Neil Sheehan 05/25/2017
1982 Mornings on Horseback David Mccullough 05/25/2017
2016 Stamped From the Beginning Ibram X. Kendi 05/25/2017
1974 The Briar Patch Murray Kempton 05/25/2017
1963 Henry James Leon Edel 05/25/2017
1977 The Uses of Enchantment Bruno Bettelheim 05/25/2017
2003 Waiting for Snow in Havana Carlos Eire 05/25/2017
1982 The Soul of a New Machine Tracy Kidder 05/25/2017
1978 Samuel Johnson Walter Jackson Bate 05/25/2017
2006 The Worst Hard Time Timothy Egan 05/25/2017
1975 Anarchy, State, and Utopia Robert Nozick 05/25/2017
2009 The First Tycoon T. J. Stiles 05/25/2017
1980 The Gnostic Gospels Elaine Pagels 05/25/2017
1996 An American Requiem James Carroll 05/25/2017
2015 Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates 05/25/2017
1995 The Haunted Land Tina Rosenberg 05/25/2017
1981 The Panda's Thumb Stephen Jay Gould 05/25/2017

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