Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction2021

Given by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Other Names: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction
45 Works / 46 Items 45,976 Books 2,182 Reviews 4.0
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous show more year. The shortlisted authors and eventual winners reflect the expert judgment and insight of the seven-member selection committee of library professionals who work closely with adult readers. These are the ALA’s first single-book awards for adult trade fiction and nonfiction. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (26), Finalist (78), Longlist (581)
Categories:
All, Fiction (304), Nonfiction (279)
Years:
All, 2024 (46), 2023 (46), 2022 (44), 2021 (46), 2020 (46), 2019 (45), 2018 (48), 2017 (45), 2016 (40), 2015 (43), 2014 (43), 2013 (51), 2012 (40)
Announced:
January 20: Winner2024 Recent

Winner 2

WorkCategoryYear
Deacon King Kong by James McBrideFiction2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsNonfiction2021

Finalist 6

WorkCategoryYear
Deacon King Kong by James McBrideFiction2021
Homeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarFiction2021
A Burning by Megha MajumdarFiction2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsNonfiction2021
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia RankineNonfiction2021
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha TretheweyNonfiction2021

Longlist 46

WorkCategoryYear
Deacon King Kong by James McBrideFiction2021
Homeland Elegies by Ayad AkhtarFiction2021
A Burning by Megha MajumdarFiction2021
Red Dress in Black and White: A novel by Elliot AckermanFiction2021
The Vanishing Half by Brit BennettFiction2021
Parakeet by Marie-Helene BertinoFiction2021
The Night Watchman by Louise ErdrichFiction2021
Crooked Hallelujah by Kelli Jo FordFiction2021
Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa GyasiFiction2021
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: Stories by Julián HerbertFiction2021
Pew by Catherine LaceyFiction2021
Luster by Raven LeilaniFiction2021
The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John MandelFiction2021
Apeirogon by Colum McCannFiction2021
Hurricane Season by Fernanda MelchorFiction2021
Utopia Avenue by David MitchellFiction2021
Hamnet by Maggie O'FarrellFiction2021
Weather by Jenny OffillFiction2021
Jack by Marilynne RobinsonFiction2021
Shuggie Bain by Douglas StuartFiction2021
Here We Are by Graham SwiftFiction2021
The Last Great Road Bum: A Novel by Héctor TobarFiction2021
Memorial by Bryan WashingtonFiction2021
Run Me to Earth by Paul YoonFiction2021
Interior Chinatown by Charles YuFiction2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsNonfiction2021
Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia RankineNonfiction2021
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir by Natasha TretheweyNonfiction2021
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger BregmanNonfiction2021
The Undocumented Americans by Karla Cornejo VillavicencioNonfiction2021
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara DemickNonfiction2021
The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele HarperNonfiction2021
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles HarveyNonfiction2021
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch by Miles HarveyNonfiction2021
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park HongNonfiction2021
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis by Jeffrey H. JacksonNonfiction2021
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert KolkerNonfiction2021
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America by Laila LalamiNonfiction2021
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World by Alan MikhailNonfiction2021
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir by Wayétu MooreNonfiction2021
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les PayneNonfiction2021
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers: A Memoir by Jenn ShaplandNonfiction2021
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir by Rebecca SolnitNonfiction2021
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World by Patrik SvenssonNonfiction2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel WilkersonNonfiction2021
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 by Jia Lynn YangNonfiction2021

Descriptions

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year. The shortlisted authors and eventual winners reflect the expert judgment and insight of the seven-member selection committee of library professionals who work closely with adult readers. These are the ALA’s first single-book awards for adult trade fiction and nonfiction.

(English, Award granter)
URL: https://rusaupdate.org/awards/carnegie/
The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction was named in honor of nineteenth-century American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. The Medals were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year (English, Member-written)

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