Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and NonfictionLonglistNonfiction2022

Given by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Other Names: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction
21 Works 9,898 Books 381 Reviews 4.2
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, Nonfiction (21)
Years:
All, 2024 (23), 2023 (23), 2022 (21), 2021 (21), 2020 (22), 2019 (22), 2018 (21), 2017 (21), 2016 (20), 2015 (19), 2014 (21), 2013 (24), 2012 (20)
Announced:
January 20: Winner2024 Recent

Longlist 21

WorkYear
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. Kendi2022
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke2022
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown2022
The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger2022
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn2022
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott Ellsworth2022
Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird by Sean Flynn2022
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green2022
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy Harjo2022
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría Hudes2022
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe2022
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert2022
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee2022
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marçal2022
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee2022
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg2022
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones2022
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach2022

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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.

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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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