National Book Critics Circle Award Winners and Finalists 1975-79

1.
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century 4.05 avg rating — 43,235 ratings
2.
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts 3.73 avg rating — 33,276 ratings
3.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family 4.45 avg rating — 163,547 ratings
4.
The Gnostic Gospels
The Gnostic Gospels 3.94 avg rating — 19,344 ratings
5.
America Revised
America Revised 3.75 avg rating — 68 ratings
6.
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet
Decadence: The Strange Life of an Epithet 3.79 avg rating — 29 ratings
7.
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination 4.21 avg rating — 4,064 ratings
8.
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal
A Lion for Love: A Critical Biography of Stendhal 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
9.
Munich: The Price of Peace
Munich: The Price of Peace 4.39 avg rating — 41 ratings
10.
The Right Stuff
The Right Stuff
by: Tom Wolfe
4.23 avg rating — 54,857 ratings
11.
The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,338 ratings
12.
African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan
African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan 3.52 avg rating — 33 ratings
13.
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid 4.29 avg rating — 51,681 ratings
14.
The Year of the French
The Year of the French 4.09 avg rating — 1,173 ratings
15.
The Ghost Writer
The Ghost Writer 3.81 avg rating — 13,592 ratings
16.
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice 4.17 avg rating — 93,608 ratings
17.
The Executioner's Song
The Executioner's Song 4.05 avg rating — 22,787 ratings
18.
Sleepless Nights
Sleepless Nights 3.62 avg rating — 4,116 ratings
19.
King of the Jews: A Novel
King of the Jews: A Novel 3.69 avg rating — 126 ratings
20.
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries: Selected Papers
Modern Art: 19th and 20th Centuries: Selected Papers 4.32 avg rating — 56 ratings
21.
...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978
...And I Worked at the Writer's Trade: Chapters of Literary History 1918-1978 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings
22.
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews 4.12 avg rating — 132 ratings
23.
Orientalism
Orientalism 4.13 avg rating — 28,509 ratings
24.
The World Within the Word
The World Within the Word 4.08 avg rating — 257 ratings
25.
Facts of Life
Facts of Life 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
26.
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence
Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence 3.92 avg rating — 218 ratings
27.
In Search of History
In Search of History 4.16 avg rating — 497 ratings
28.
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt
Injustice: The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings
29.
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life 3.64 avg rating — 450 ratings
30.
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius 4.30 avg rating — 2,000 ratings
31.
New York Jew
New York Jew really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 66 ratings
32.
Seeing Through Clothes
Seeing Through Clothes 3.98 avg rating — 168 ratings
33.
The Snow Leopard
The Snow Leopard 4.07 avg rating — 19,812 ratings
34.
The Stories of John Cheever
The Stories of John Cheever 4.26 avg rating — 15,587 ratings
35.
The Coup
The Coup 3.37 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
36.
Final Payments
Final Payments 3.67 avg rating — 690 ratings
37.
The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp 4.11 avg rating — 235,963 ratings
38.
Wrinkles
Wrinkles 3.51 avg rating — 70 ratings
39.
On Photography
On Photography 3.88 avg rating — 54,148 ratings
40.
Afterimages
Afterimages 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
41.
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties
Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties 3.48 avg rating — 63 ratings
42.
Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing
Robert Frost: The Work of Knowing 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
43.
Matters of Fact and of Fiction
Matters of Fact and of Fiction 4.18 avg rating — 82 ratings
44.
Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson 4.22 avg rating — 213 ratings
45.
Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,214 ratings
46.
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914 4.22 avg rating — 22,134 ratings
47.
Coming Into the Country
Coming Into the Country 4.21 avg rating — 7,472 ratings
48.
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence 4.19 avg rating — 21,187 ratings
49.
Song of Solomon
Song of Solomon 4.15 avg rating — 123,933 ratings
50.
Falconer
Falconer 3.65 avg rating — 8,702 ratings
51.
A Book of Common Prayer
A Book of Common Prayer 3.80 avg rating — 6,260 ratings
52.
The Professor of Desire
The Professor of Desire 3.68 avg rating — 3,959 ratings
53.
Union Dues
Union Dues 3.96 avg rating — 170 ratings
54.
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales
The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales 3.83 avg rating — 6,186 ratings
55.
Kicked A Building Lately?
Kicked A Building Lately? 4.47 avg rating — 17 ratings
56.
Representations: Essays on Literature and Society
Representations: Essays on Literature and Society it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
57.
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg 4.01 avg rating — 100 ratings
58.
Letters of E.B. White
Letters of E.B. White 4.13 avg rating — 926 ratings
59.
The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations
The Damnable Question: A Study in Anglo-Irish Relations 3.41 avg rating — 22 ratings
60.
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made
World of Our Fathers: The Journey of the East European Jews to America and the Life They Found and Made 4.12 avg rating — 431 ratings
61.
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality
Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality 4.44 avg rating — 712 ratings
62.
October Light
October Light 3.86 avg rating — 1,163 ratings
63.
Speedboat
Speedboat 3.76 avg rating — 7,257 ratings
64.
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories
Details of a Sunset and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating — 267 ratings
65.
Bloodshed and Three Novellas
Bloodshed and Three Novellas 3.78 avg rating — 68 ratings
66.
The Easter Parade
The Easter Parade 4.03 avg rating — 10,422 ratings
67.
Ragtime
Ragtime 3.89 avg rating — 45,693 ratings
68.
Edith Wharton
Edith Wharton 4.08 avg rating — 445 ratings
69.
The Great War and Modern Memory
The Great War and Modern Memory 4.13 avg rating — 6,077 ratings
70.
Ashes: Poems New & Old
Ashes: Poems New & Old 4.40 avg rating — 43 ratings
71.
The Venetian Vespers
The Venetian Vespers 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
72.
Blue Wine and Other Poems
Blue Wine and Other Poems 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
73.
Goshawk, Antelope
Goshawk, Antelope really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
74.
Notes from the Castle: Poems
Notes from the Castle: Poems liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
75.
Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman
Hello, Darkness: The Collected Poems of L.E. Sissman 3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
76.
The Dream of a Common Language
The Dream of a Common Language 4.32 avg rating — 6,772 ratings
77.
The Late Hour
The Late Hour 4.16 avg rating — 51 ratings
78.
New & Selected Things Taking Place
New & Selected Things Taking Place 4.22 avg rating — 32 ratings
79.
Spectral emanations: New and selected poems
Spectral emanations: New and selected poems liked it 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
80.
Day by Day
Day by Day 3.76 avg rating — 107 ratings
81.
Houseboat Days
Houseboat Days 4.21 avg rating — 452 ratings
82.
Out-of-the-Body Travel
Out-of-the-Body Travel 4.28 avg rating — 36 ratings
83.
The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress
The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress 3.96 avg rating — 48 ratings
84.
Lucky Life
Lucky Life 4.26 avg rating — 97 ratings
85.
Geography III
Geography III 4.26 avg rating — 2,118 ratings
86.
The Names of the Lost
The Names of the Lost 4.38 avg rating — 47 ratings
87.
The Gates
The Gates 3.65 avg rating — 31 ratings
88.
Searching for the Ox
Searching for the Ox 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
89.
The Mind-Reader
The Mind-Reader 3.48 avg rating — 23 ratings
90.
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 4.07 avg rating — 4,645 ratings