National Book Critics Circle Award

Candy Darling Dreamer, Icon, Superstar By Carr, Cynthia, 1950-

Winnie and Nelson Portrait of A Marriage By Steinberg, Jonny, 1970-

G-man J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century By Gage, Beverly

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler By Donner, Rebecca

Stranger in the Shogun's City A Japanese Woman and Her World By Stanley, Amy, 1978-

The Queen The Forgotten Life Behind An American Myth By Levin, Josh, 1980-

Flash The Making of Weegee the Famous By Bonanos, Christopher

Prairie Fires The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder By Fraser, Caroline

Shirley Jackson A Rather Haunted Life By Franklin, Ruth

Romantic Outlaws The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley By Gordon, Charlotte