Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards
4 books won both the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards between 2007 and 2015, most recently Citizen: An American Lyric (2015/2014). 18 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Hurston/Wright Legacy Award · National Book Critics Circle Awards
Won both
| Book | Author | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | National Book Critics Circle Awards |
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| Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine |
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| The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration | Isabel Wilkerson |
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| Brother, I’m Dying | Edwige Danticat |
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| The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao | Junot Diaz |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award | National Book Critics Circle Awards |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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| Scattered Snows, to the North | Carl Phillips |
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| Trace Evidence | Charif Shanahan |
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| When Crack Was King | Donovan X. Ramsey |
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| Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals | Saidiya Hartman |
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| American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin | Terrance Hayes |
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| Guidebook to Relative Strangers: Journeys into Race, Motherhood, and History | Camille T. Dungy |
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| Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America | Ibram X. Kendi |
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| Swing Time | Zadie Smith |
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| How to Be Drawn | Terrance Hayes |
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| The Light of the World | Elizabeth Alexander |
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| The Sellout | Paul Beatty |
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| The Essential Hits of Shorty Bon Bon | Willie Perdomo |
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| Men We Reaped | Jesmyn Ward |
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| Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America | Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts |
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| Kingdom Animalia | Aracelis Girmay |
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| Lighthead | Terrance Hayes |
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| Half of a Yellow Sun | Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |
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