2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction

2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists are listed below. The star rating and number of reviews are from Amazon.com. In parentheses after the star rating and number of reviews are the number of pages in the book and any other awards that the book was a finalist for. Award names in red indicate the the book was the winner of that award. Click the buy from Amazon.com link to be taken to the Amazon.com website where you can purchase the book from the premier online bookseller.

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2012 National Book Award for Nonfiction Winners and Finalists

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1945-1956 by Anne Applebaum 28 reviews (2012) (608p) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo 264 reviews (2012) (288p) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 4 by Robert A. Caro 243 reviews (2012) (736p) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=4 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=1 PPWin=1 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=2 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Boy Kings of Texas by Domingo Martinez 36 reviews (2012) (456p) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=1 UnqBooks=1 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=0 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East by Anthony Shadid 57 reviews (2012) (336p) (NBA Non) Author: TotNom=2 UnqBooks=2 PPNom=0 PPWin=0 NBCCANom=1 NBCCAWin=0 NBANom=1 Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page