National Book Critics Circle Award

Prémio para o melhor primeiro livro em qualquer género literário.

Ivan Sandrof foi um dos fundadores do National Book Critics Circle^[2] e o seu primeiro presidente.^[3]

The Sandrof Award has also been presented as the "Ivan Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publishing" and the "Ivan Sandrof Award, Contribution to American Arts & Letters".

O Balakian Citation é anual. Honra Nona Balakian, que foi uma dos três fundadores do NBCC.^[2][5] Por 43 anos, Balakian foi editora na equipe do New York Times Book Review (A Crítica de Livros do New York Times).^[6] Cinco finalistas são anunciados em cada ano, um dos quais é selecionado como o vencedor da citação. O prêmio já foi chamado "o prêmio de crítica literária de maior prestígio do país."^[7]

Vencedores estão escritos em negrito.

Os finalistas foram anunciados a 21 de Janeiro de 2018.^[8][9] Os vencedores (Predefinição:Blue ribbon) foram anunciados a 15 de Março de 2018 na New School em Nova Iorque.^[10]

Ficção

• Mohsin Hamid, Exit West
• Alice McDermott, The Ninth Hour
• Arundhati Roy, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Joan Silber, Improvement
• Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing

Não Ficção

• Jack Davis, Gulf: The Making of An American Sea
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Frances FitzGerald, The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America
• Masha Gessen, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
• Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe
• Adam Rutherford, A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Human Story Retold Through Our Genes

Autobiografia

• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir
• Roxane Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
• Henry Marsh, Admissions: Life as a Brain Surgeon
• Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, The Girl From the Metropol Hotel: Growing Up in Communist Russia
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Xiaolu Guo, Nine Continents: A Memoir In and Out of China

Biografia

• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Caroline Fraser, Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Edmund Gordon, The Invention of Angela Carter: A Biography
• Howard Markel, The Kelloggs: The Battling Brothers of Battle Creek
• William Taubman, Gorbachev: His Life and Times
• Ken Whyte, Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times

Crítica

• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Carina Chocano, You Play the Girl: On Playboy Bunnies, Stepford Wives, Train Wrecks, & Other Mixed Messages
• Edwidge Danticat, The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story
• Camille Dungy, Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History
• Valeria Luiselli, Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions
• Kevin Young, Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts and Fake News

Poesia

• Nuar Alsadir, Fourth Person Singular
• James Longenbach, Earthling
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Layli Long Soldier, Whereas
• Frank Ormsby, The Darkness of Snow
• Ana Ristović, Directions for Use

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• John McPhee

John Leonard Prize

• Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Charles Finch

Os finalistas foram anunciados a 1 de Janeiro de 2017.^[11]

Ficção

• Michael Chabon, Moonglow
• Louise Erdrich, LaRose
• Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone
• Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
• Zadie Smith, Swing Time

Não Ficção

• Matthew Desmond, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
• Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
• Jane Mayer, Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
• Viet Thanh Nguyen, Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War
• John Edgar Wideman, Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File

Autobiografia

• Marion Coutts, The Iceberg
• Jenny Diski, In Gratitude
• Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
• Hisham Matar, The Return: Fathers, Sons, and the Land in Between
• Kao Kalia Yang, The Song Poet: A Memoir of My Father

Biografia

• Nigel Cliff, Moscow Nights: The Van Cliburn Story
• Ruth Franklin, Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life
• Joe Jackson, Black Elk: The Life of an American Visionary
• Michael Tisserand, Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White
• Frances Wilson, Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey

Crítica

• Carol Anderson, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide
• Mark Greif, Against Everything: Essays
• Alice Kaplan, Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic
• Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
• Peter Orner, Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live

Poesia

• Ishion Hutchinson, House of Lords and Commons
• Tyehimba Jess, Olio
• Bernadette Mayer, Works and Days
• Robert Pinsky, At the Foundling Hospital
• Monica Youn, Blackacre

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Margaret Atwood

Prémio John Leonard

• Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Michelle Dean

Os finalistas foram anunciados a 18 de Janeiro de 2016.^[12] Os vencedores (Predefinição:Blue ribbon) foram anunciados a 17 de Março de 2016 na New School em Nova Iorque.^[13]

Ficção

• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Paul Beatty, The Sellout
• Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies
• Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth
• Anthony Marra, The Tsar of Love and Techno
• Ottessa Moshfegh, Eileen

Não ficção

• Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
• Ari Berman, Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
• Jill Leovy, Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
• Brian Seibert, What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Autobiografia

• Elizabeth Alexander, The Light of the World
• Vivian Gornick, The Odd Woman and the City
• George Hodgman, Bettyville
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Margo Jefferson, Negroland: A Memoir
• Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

Biografia

• Terry Alford, Fortune’s Fool: The Life of John Wilkes Booth
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Charlotte Gordon, Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley
• T.J. Stiles, Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
• Rosemary Sullivan, Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
• Karin Wieland and Shelly Frisch, Dietrich and Riefenstahl: Hollywood, Berlin, and a Century in Two Lives

Crítica

• Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
• Leo Damrosch, Eternity’s Sunrise: The Imaginative World of William Blake
• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
• Colm Tóibín, On Elizabeth Bishop
• James Wood, The Nearest Thing to Life

Poesia

• Predefinição:Blue ribbon Ross Gay, Catalogue of Unabashed Gratitude
• Terrance Hayes, How to Be Drawn
• Ada Limón, Bright Dead Things
• Sinéad Morrissey, Parallax: And Selected Poems
• Frank Stanford, What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Wendell Berry

Prémio John Leonard

• Kirstin Valdez Quade, Night at the Fiestas

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Carlos Lozada

Ficção

• Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman
• Marlon James , A Brief History of Seven Killings
• Lily King, Euphoria
• Chang-rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea
• Marilynne Robinson, Lila

Não Ficção Geral

• David Brion Davis, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation
• Peter Finn and Petra Couvee, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book
• Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
• Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century, traduzido do francês por Arthur Goldhammer
• Hector Tobar, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle that Set Them Free

Poesia

• Saeed Jones, Prelude to Bruise
• Willie Perdomo, The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
• Christian Wiman, Once in the West
• Jake Adam York, Abide

Autobiografia

• Blake Bailey, The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait
• Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
• Lacy M. Johnson, The Other Side
• Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
• Meline Toumani, There Was and There Was Not

Biografia

• Ezra Greenspan, William Wells Brown: An African American Life
• S. C. Gwynne, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson
• John Lahr, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh
• Ian S. MacNiven, "Literchoor Is My Beat": A Life of James Laughlin, Publisher of New Directions
• Miriam Pawel, The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography

Crítica

• Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Innoculation
• Vikram Chandra, Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty
• Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric
• Lynne Tillman, What Would Lynne Tillman Do?
• Ellen Willis, The Essential Ellen Willis, edited by Nona Willis Aronowitz

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Toni Morrison

John Leonard Prize

• Phil Klay, Redeployment

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Alexandra Schwartz
• Charles Finch
• B. K. Fischer
• Benjamin Moser
• Lisa Russ Spaar

Ficção

• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Americanah (Knopf)
• Alice McDermott, Someone (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Javier Marías, The Infatuations, traduzido por Margaret Jull Costa (Knopf)
• Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking)
• Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch (Little, Brown)

Não Ficção

• Kevin Cullen e Shelley Murphy, Whitey Bulger: America's Most Wanted Gangster and the Manhunt That Brought Him to Justice (Norton)
• Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown)
• David Finkel, Thank You for Your Service (Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• George Packer, The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Knopf)

Poesia

• Frank Bidart, Metaphysical Dog (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Lucie Brock-Broido, Stay, Illusion (Knopf)
• Denise Duhamel, Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press)
• Bob Hicok, Elegy Owed (Copper Canyon)
• Carmen Gimenez Smith, Milk and Filth (University of Arizona Press)

Autobiografia

• Sonali Deraniyagala, Wave (Knopf)
• Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby (Viking)
• Jesmyn Ward, Men We Reaped (Bloomsbury)
• Amy Wilentz, Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (Simon & Schuster)

Biografia

• Scott Anderson, Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Doubleday)
• Leo Damrosch, Jonathan Swift: His Life and His World (Yale University Press)
• John Eliot Gardiner, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven (Knopf)
• Linda Leavell, Holding On Upside Down: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Mark Thompson, Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kis (Cornell University Press)

Crítica

• Hilton Als, White Girls (McSweeney’s)
• Mary Beard, Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Liveright)
• Jonathan Franzen, The Kraus Project: Essays by Karl Kraus, translated and annotated by Jonathan Franzen with Paul Reitter and Daniel Kehlmann (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Janet Malcolm, Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
• Franco Moretti, Distant Reading (Verso)

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Rolando Hinojosa-Smith

John Leonard Prize

• Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (Hogarth)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Katherine A. Powers
• Ruth Franklin
• James Marcus
• Roxana Robinson
• Alexandra Schwartz

Ficção

• Laurent Binet, HHhH traduzido por Sam Taylor
• Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
• Adam Johnson , The Orphan Master's Son
• Lydia Millet, Magnificence
• Zadie Smith, NW

Não Ficção

• Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers|Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
• Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
• Jim Holt , Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story
• David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
• Andrew Solomon, Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Crítica

• Paul Elie, Reinventing Bach
• Daniel Mendelsohn, Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
• Mary Ruefle, Madness, Rack, and Honey
• Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights
• Kevin Young, The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness

Poesia

• David Ferry, Bewilderment: New Poems and Translations
• Lucia Perillo, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
• Allan Peterson, Fragile Acts
• D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys
• A. E. Stallings, Olives

Autobiografia

• Reyna Grande, The Distance Between Us
• Maureen N. McLane, My Poets
• Anthony Shadid, House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
• Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies
• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, In the House of the Interpreter

Biografia

• Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
• Lisa Cohen, All We Know: Three Lives
• Michael Gorra, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece
• Lisa Jarnot, Robert Duncan, The Ambassador from Venus: A Biography
• Tom Reiss, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Sandra Gilbert e Susan Gubar

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• William Deresiewicz

Ficção

• Dana Spiotta, Stone Arabia
• Teju Cole, Open City
• Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
• Alan Hollinghurst, The Stranger's Child
• Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories

Não-ficção

• John Jeremiah Sullivan, Pulphead: Essays
• Maya Jasanoff, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
• James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
• Adam Hochschild, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
• Amanda Foreman, A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War

Crítica

• David Bellos, Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything
• Geoff Dyer, Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews
• Jonathan Lethem, The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc.
• Dubravka Ugresic, Karaoke Culture: Essays
• Ellen Willis, Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music

Biografia

• Mary Gabriel, Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of the Revolution
• John Lewis Gaddis, George F. Kennan: An American Life
• Paul Hendrickson, Hemingway's Boat: Everything He Loved in Life, and Lost, 1934–1961
• Manning Marable, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
• Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Autobiografia

• Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing
• Mira Bartók, The Memory Palace
• Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
• Luis J. Rodriguez, It Calls You Back: An Odyssey through Love, Addiction, Revolutions, and Healing
• Deb Olin Unferth, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War

Poesia

• Bruce Smith, Devotions
• Yusef Komunyakaa, The Chameleon Couch
• Aracelis Girmay, Kingdom Animalia
• Forrest Gander, Core Samples From the World
• Laura Kasischke, Space, In Chains

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Kathryn Schulz

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Robert Silvers, editor do New York Review of Books

Ficção

• Jennifer Egan, A Visit From the Goon Squad (Knopf)
• Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
• David Grossman, To The End Of The Land (Knopf)
• Hans Keilson, Comedy In A Minor Key (Farrar, Straus And Giroux)
• Paul Murray, Skippy Dies (Faber & Faber)

Não-ficção

• Barbara Demick, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Spiegel & Grau)
• S.C. Gwynne, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American (Scribner)
• Jennifer Homans, Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet (Random )
• Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Scribner )
• Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (Random)

Crítica

• Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Terry Castle, The Professor and Other Writings (Harper )
• Clare Cavanagh, Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West (Yale University Press)
• Susie Linfield, The Cruel Radiance (University of Chicago Press)
• Ander Monson, Vanishing Point: Not a Memoir (Graywolf)

Biografia

• Sarah Bakewell, How To Live, Or A Life Of Montaigne (Other Press)
• Selina Hastings, The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham: A Biography (Random House)
• Yunte Huang, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story Of The Honorable Detective And His Rendezvous With American History (Norton)
• Thomas Powers, The Killing Of Crazy Horse (Knopf)
• Tom Segev, Simon Wiesenthal: The Lives And Legends (Doubleday)

Autobiografia

• Kai Bird, Crossing Mandelbaum Gate Coming of Age Between the Arabs and Israelis, 1956-1978 (Scribner)
• David Dow, The Autobiography of an Execution (Twelve)
• Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir (Twelve)
• Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, Hiroshima in the Morning (Feminst Press)
• Patti Smith, Just Kids (Ecco)
• Darin Strauss, Half a Life (McSweeney’s)

Poesia

• Anne Carson, Nox (New Directions)
• Kathleen Graber, The Eternal City (Princeton University Press)
• Terrance Hayes, Lighthead (Penguin Poets)
• Kay Ryan, The Best of It (Grove)
• C.D. Wright, One With Others (Copper Canyon)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Sarah L. Courteau
• William Deresiewicz
• Ruth Franklin
• Kathryn Harrison
• Parul Sehgal

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Dalky Archive Press

Ficção

• Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage (Wayne State University Press)
• Marlon James, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead)
• Michelle Huneven, Blame (Sarah Crichton Books/FSG)
• Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall (Holt)
• Jayne Anne Phillips, Lark and Termite (Knopf)

Não-ficção

• Wendy Doniger, The Hindus: An Alternative History (Penguin Press)
• Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City (Metropolitan Books)
• Richard Holmes, The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science (Pantheon)
• Tracy Kidder, Strength in What Remain (Random House)
• William T. Vollmann, Imperial (Viking)

Crítica

• Eula Biss, Notes From No Man's Land: American Essays (Graywolf Press)
• Stephen Burt, Close Calls with Nonsense: Reading New Poetry (Graywolf Press)
• Morris Dickstein, Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression (Norton)
• David Hajdu, Heroes and Villains: Essays on Music, Movies, Comics, and Culture (Da Capo Press)
• Greg Milner, Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music (Faber)

Biografia

• Blake Bailey, Cheever: A Life (Knopf)
• Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown)
• Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector (Oxford University Press)
• Stanislao G. Pugliese, Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• Martha A. Sandweiss, Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line (Penguin Press)

Autobiografia

• Diana Athill, Somewhere Towards the End (Norton)
• Debra Gwartney, Live Through This: A Mother's Memoir of Runaway Daughters and Reclaimed Love (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Mary Karr, Lit (Harper)
• Kati Marton, Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America (Simon & Schuster)
• Edmund White, City Boy ( Bloomsbury)

Poesia

• Rae Armantrout, Versed (Wesleyan)
• Louise Glück, A Village Life (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• D. A. Powell, Chronic (Graywolf Press)
• Eleanor Ross Taylor, Captive Voices: New and Selected Poems, 1960–2008 (Louisiana State University Press)
• Rachel Zucker, Museum of Accidents (Wave Books)

Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Joan Acocella
• Michael Antman
• William Deresiewicz
• Donna Seaman
• Wendy Smith

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• Joyce Carol Oates

Ficção

• Roberto Bolaño, 2666. (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project, (Riverhead)
• Marilynne Robinson, Home, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
• Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge, (Random House)
• M. Glenn Taylor, The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart, (West Virginia University Press)

Não-ficção

• Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, (Knopf)
• Dexter Filkins, The Forever War, (Knopf)
• George C. Herring, From Colony to Superpower: US Foreign Relations Since 1776. (Oxford University Press)
• Allan Lichtman, White Protestant Nation, (Atlantic)
• Jane Mayer, The Dark Side, (Doubleday)

Autobiografia

• Rick Bass, Why I Came West, (Houghton Mifflin)
• Helene Cooper, The House on Sugar Beach, (Simon and Schuster)
• Honor Moore, The Bishop’s Daughter, (W.W. Norton)
• Andrew X. Pham, The Eaves of Heaven, (Harmony Books)
• Ariel Sabar, My Father’s Paradise: A Son’s Search for His Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, (Algonquin)

Biografia

• Steve Coll, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in an American Century, (Penguin Press)
• Patrick French, The World is What it is: The Authorized Biography of V.S. Naipaul, (Knopf)
• Paul J. Giddings, Ida, A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, (Amistad)
• Annette Gordon-Reed, The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, (Norton)
• Brenda Wineapple, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson & Thomas Wentworth Higginson, (Knopf)

Poesia

• Juan Felipe Herrera, Half the World in Light, (University of Arizona Press)^[14]
• Devin Johnston, Sources, (Turtle Point Press)
• August Kleinzahler, Sleeping it Off in Rapid City, (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)^[14]
• Pierre Martory (trad. John Ashbery), The Landscapist, (Sheep Meadow Press)
• Brenda Shaughnessy, Human Dark with Sugar, (Copper Canyon Press)

Crítica

• Richard Brody, Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, (Metropolitan Books)
• Vivian Gornick, The Men in My Life. (Boston Review/MIT)
• Joel L. Kraemer, Maimonides: The Life and World of One Of Civilization’s Greatest Minds, (Doubleday)
• Seth Lerer, Children’s Literature: A Reader's History from Aesop to Harry Potter, (University of Chicago Press)
• Reginald Shepard, Orpheus in the Bronx: Essays on Identity, Politics, and the Freedom of Poetry, (University of Michigan Press)

The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing

• Michael Antman
• Ron Charles
• Kathryn Harrison
• Laila Lalami
• Todd Shy

Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award

• PEN American Center^[4]