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FOR GENERAL NONFICTION 1975-2003 |
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FOR GENERAL NONFICTION 1975-2003 |
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Winners are selected by a 24 member board of critics from around the country. Books are often recommended to the board by the more than 500 general members of the circle. The award for General Non-fiction has been made annually since 1975
| 2003 | Paul Hendrickson | Sons of Mississippi |
| 2002 | Samantha Power | A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide |
| 2001 | Nicholson Baker | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper |
| 2000 | Ted Conover | Newjack: Guarding Sing-Sing |
| 1999 | Jonathan Weiner | Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and his Quest for the Origins of Behavior |
| 1998 | Philip Gourexitch | We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families |
| 1997 | Anne fadiman | The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down |
| 1996 | Jonathan Raban | Bad Land: An American Romance |
| 1995 | Jonathan Harr | A Civil Action |
| 1994 | Lynn H. Nicholas | The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe's Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War |
| 1993 | Alan Lomax | The Land Where Blues Began |
| 1992 | Norman Maclean | Young Men and Fire |
| 1991 | Susan faludi | Backlash |
| 1990 | Shelby Steele | The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America |
| 1989 | Michael Dorris | The Broken Cord |
| 1988 | Taylor Branch | Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 |
| 1987 | Richard Rhodes | The Making of the Atomic Bomb |
| 1986 | John W. Dower | War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War |
| 1985 | J. Anthony Lucas | Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three Americans |
| 1984 | Freeman Dyson | Weapons and Hope |
| 1983 | Seymour M. Hirsh | The Price of Power: Kissinger and the Nixon White House |
| 1982 | Robert A. Caro | The Path of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson |
| 1981 | Stephen J. Gould | The Mismeasure of Man |
| 1980 | Ronald Steel | Walter Lippmann and the American Century |
| 1979 | Telford Taylor | Munich: The Price of Peace |
| 1978 | Maureen Howard | Facts of Life |
| 1977 | Walter Jackson Bate | Samuel Johnson |
| 1976 | Maxine Hong Kingston | The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts |
| 1975 | R.W.B. Lewis | Edith Wharton |
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