Topic: National Book Critics Circle

Driving Mr. Yogi

More than baseball, 'Driving Mr. Yogi' is a book about friendship.

Liberation Square

Egyptian journalist Ashraf Khalil brings insight and thorough reporting to his account of the end of the Hosni Mubarak government.

Europe's Angry Muslims

What lessons can the US learn from the anger simmering in some of Europe's Muslim communities?

Killing the Cranes

After decades in Afghanistan, a Monitor journalist offers a memoir and field report.

Hemingway's Boat

From global acclaim to suicide: Paul Hendrickson examines the three final decades of Ernest Hemingway.

American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation

Michael Kazin delivers an entertaining history of America's "left" – those who dream of "a radically egalitarian transformation of society.”

Jennifer Egan plays with time, wins Pulitzer

Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for her novel about the passage of time set in the digital upending of the music industry.

Day of Honey

A Mideast reporter learns that a good dinner can save civilization.

NBCC nominees: the best 5 nonfiction books of 2010

From harrowing glimpses of life in North Korea to the stories of the black Americans who fled the Jim Crow South, these five nonfiction titles were nominated by the National Book Critics Circle as the best work of 2010. The final award will be announced in March.

American Grace

Will religion push us closer – or pull us apart?

"Jimmy Carter" and "White House Diary"

Jimmy Carter ran for president as a maverick. It’s also how he’s lived his life.

Justice Brennan: Liberal Champion

Two journalists examine the life and legacy of William Brennan, the liberal Supreme Court justice who left his mark on the US Constitution.

Journey: My Political Life

Tony Blair’s engaging memoir lauds George W. Bush and defends the difficult decisions that politicians must make.

Minefields of the Heart

What a mother experiences while her son fights in Iraq.

Nobody Turn Me Around

How infighting almost silenced Dr. King's momentous "I Have a Dream" speech.

Classic review: My Father's Paradise

A journalist grows closer to his Iraqi-born father as they journey together to Kurdistan to explore their family roots.

2010 Pulitzer Prize winners in letters and drama

"Tinkers" by Paul Harding surprised many by winning the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

The Autobiography of an Execution

A death penalty attorney writes with candor about the painful burdens of his job.

Homeland

Barack Obama’s half brother, George, tells his own story of coming of age in a Kenyan slum.

The Anthologist

The writer’s block of a poet becomes the excuse for Nicholson Baker’s daft, brilliant, hilarious novel.

A Tolerable Anarchy

A history of what it means to be free in America.

The books critics liked best in 2008

Amid rumors about Post book section, their critic wins a prize

'The Forever War'

Chilling on-the-ground accounts of war in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

My Father's Paradise

A journalist learns to embrace the ancient roots of his past in Iraqi Kurdistan's Jewish community.