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National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner

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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

Stories from Rwanda

Philip Gourevitch Picador

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill...

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Guardian First Book Award - Nominee - Winner
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction
PEN Literary Award - Winner - First Nonfiction

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The Hairstons

An American Family in Black and White

Henry Wiencek St. Martin's Griffin

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award The Hairstons is the extraordinary story of the largest family in America, the Hairston clan. With several...

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Being Dead

A Novel

Jim Crace Picador

Lying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Criticism

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Less Than One

Selected Essays

Joseph Brodsky Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

This collection of essays thrusts Brodsky--heretofore known more for his poetry and translations--into the forefront of the "Third Wave" of Russian emigre...

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Flesh & Blood

Poems

C. K. Williams Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Flesh and Blood, the fifth collection by C. K. Williams, was awarded the 1987 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Reviewing it in The New York Times...

National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Poetry

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Black Zodiac

Poems

Charles Wright Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award Black Zodiac offers poems suffused with spiritual longing—lyrical meditations...

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L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Poetry
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Poetry
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Poetry

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The Counterlife

Philip Roth Farrar, Straus and Giroux

This radical work, whose protagonist is the novelist Nathan Zuckerman, ranges from a Christmas Carol service in London's West End to a Sabbath evening...

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The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love

Oscar Hijuelos Farrar, Straus and Giroux

It's 1949 and two young Cuban musicians make their way up from Havana to the big arena of New York, where they are workers by day, stars of dance halls by...

National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Finalist, Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner

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Day by Day

Robert Lowell Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's...

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Gilead

A Novel

Marilynne Robinson Picador

Twenty-four years after her first novel, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three generations from the Civil War to the...

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ALA Notable Books - Winner - Fiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist - Fiction
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - Fiction
Ambassador Book Award - Winner - Fiction
Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee - Adult Fiction
Christianity Today Book Award - Fiction
PEN/Faulkner Award - Nominee - Fiction
Midwest Booksellers' Choice Award - Winner - Nonfiction
Society of Midland Authors Book Awards - Winner - Adult Fiction
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - Fiction

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Geography III

Poems

Elizabeth Bishop Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist’s office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one’s lover...

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A Novel

Roberto Bolaño; Translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer Picador

A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2008 Time Magazine's Best Book of 2008 Los Angeles Times Best...

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Wolf Hall

A Novel

Hilary Mantel Picador

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political...

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Booker Prize Winner
Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction - Nominee
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner

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The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia...

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Boston Book Review - Winner - Nonfiction
L.A. Times Book Prize - Winner - Current Interest
National Book Critics Circle Awards - Winner - General Nonfiction

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