The National Book Critics Circle awards go to:

Fiction: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Nonfiction: Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution by Simon Schama (Ecco)
Biography: James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon by Julie Phillips (St. Martin's)
Memoir/Autobiography: The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million by Daniel Mendelsohn (HarperCollins)
Poetry: Tom Thomson in Purgatory by Troy Jollimore (Margie/Intuit House)
Criticism: Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Lawrence Weschler (McSweeney's)
The Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing: Steven Kellman
The Sandrof Award for Lifetime Achievement: John Leonard