Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

Given by Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

Other Names: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Nonfiction
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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

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
November 2023: Finalist2024 Recent
October 2023: Longlist2024 Recent

Winner 26

WorkCategoryYear
The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersFiction2024
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna AsgarianNonfiction2024
The Swimmers by Julie OtsukaFiction2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongNonfiction2023
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom LinFiction2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2022
Deacon King Kong by James McBrideFiction2021
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca GiggsNonfiction2021
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliFiction2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamNonfiction2020
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiFiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonNonfiction2019
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganFiction2018
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman AlexieNonfiction2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondNonfiction2017
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenFiction2016
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally MannNonfiction2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrFiction2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonNonfiction2015
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttFiction2014
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinNonfiction2014
Canada by Richard FordFiction2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy EganNonfiction2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne EnrightFiction2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. MassieNonfiction2012

Finalist 78

WorkCategoryYear
Denison Avenue by Daniel InnesFiction2024
The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersFiction2024
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn WardFiction2024
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna AsgarianNonfiction2024
The Talk by Darrin BellNonfiction2024
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake BittleNonfiction2024
The Swimmers by Julie OtsukaFiction2023
Greenland by David Santos DonaldsonFiction2023
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan TaltyFiction2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongNonfiction2023
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. GrossNonfiction2023
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonNonfiction2023
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom LinFiction2022
Matrix by Lauren GroffFiction2022
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez QuadeFiction2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction2022
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeNonfiction2022
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
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliFiction2020
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesFiction2020
Feast Your Eyes by Myla GoldbergFiction2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamNonfiction2020
Figuring by Maria PopovaNonfiction2020
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David TreuerNonfiction2020
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiFiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonNonfiction2019
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúNonfiction2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth MacyNonfiction2019
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganFiction2018
Washington Black by Esi EdugyanFiction2018
There There by Tommy OrangeFiction2018
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersFiction2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardFiction2018
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman AlexieNonfiction2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel EllsbergNonfiction2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannNonfiction2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2017
Moonglow by Michael ChabonFiction2017
Swing Time by Zadie SmithFiction2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondNonfiction2017
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-ScottNonfiction2017
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick PhillipsNonfiction2017
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenFiction2016
The Book of Aron by Jim ShepardFiction2016
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFiction2016
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally MannNonfiction2016
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldNonfiction2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea WulfNonfiction2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrFiction2015
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae LeeFiction2015
Nora Webster by Colm TóibínFiction2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonNonfiction2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2015
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence WrightNonfiction2015
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttFiction2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction2014
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge DanticatFiction2014
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinNonfiction2014
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. BasbanesNonfiction2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri FinkNonfiction2014
Canada by Richard FordFiction2013
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazFiction2013
The Round House by Louise ErdrichFiction2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy EganNonfiction2013
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill LeporeNonfiction2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David QuammenNonfiction2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne EnrightFiction2012
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell BanksFiction2012
Swamplandia! by Karen RussellFiction2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. MassieNonfiction2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James GleickNonfiction2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning MarableNonfiction2012

Longlist 581

WorkCategoryYear
Denison Avenue by Daniel InnesFiction2024
The Berry Pickers by Amanda PetersFiction2024
Let Us Descend by Jesmyn WardFiction2024
Chain Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahFiction2024
Fat Time and Other Stories by Jeffery Renard AllenFiction2024
Witness: Stories by Jamel BrinkleyFiction2024
All the Sinners Bleed: A Novel by S.A. CosbyFiction2024
The Lost Journals of Sacajewea by Debra Magpie EarlingFiction2024
The Great Reclamation by Rachel HengFiction2024
Tali Girls: A Novel of Afghanistan by Siamak HerawiFiction2024
The Water Outlaws by SL HuangFiction2024
The Maniac by Benjamín LabatutFiction2024
Pomegranate: A Novel by Helen Elaine LeeFiction2024
Prophet by Helen MacdonaldFiction2024
Two Sherpas by Sebastián Martínez DaniellFiction2024
House Gone Quiet: Stories by Kelsey NorrisFiction2024
Wandering Souls by Cecile PinFiction2024
LET'S GO LET'S GO LET'S GO by Cleo QianFiction2024
The Bandit Queens by Parini ShroffFiction2024
Dear Chrysanthemums: A Novel in Stories by Fiona Sze-LorrainFiction2024
Straw Dogs of the Universe: A Novel by Chun YeFiction2024
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna AsgarianNonfiction2024
The Talk by Darrin BellNonfiction2024
The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration by Jake BittleNonfiction2024
The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel by Meredith BagbyNonfiction2024
He/She/They: How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler BailarNonfiction2024
The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul by Scott W. BergNonfiction2024
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian CooperNonfiction2024
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy EganNonfiction2024
Airplane Mode: An Irreverent History of Travel by Shahnaz HabibNonfiction2024
Okinawa by Susumu HigaNonfiction2024
Amerikan Family, An: The Shakurs and the Nation They Created by Santi Elijah HolleyNonfiction2024
The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew LelandNonfiction2024
American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress by Wesley LoweryNonfiction2024
A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial by Viet Thanh NguyenNonfiction2024
The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine by M.D. Ricardo NuilaNonfiction2024
Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon by Melissa L. SevignyNonfiction2024
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars by Erin SharkeyNonfiction2024
The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by Rachel L. SwarnsNonfiction2024
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino” by Héctor TobarNonfiction2024
Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims by Jennifer VanderbesNonfiction2024
Project 562: Changing the Way We See Native America by Matika WilburNonfiction2024
The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland by Ali WinstonNonfiction2024
Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom by Ilyon WooNonfiction2024
The Swimmers by Julie OtsukaFiction2023
Greenland by David Santos DonaldsonFiction2023
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan TaltyFiction2023
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia ArmfieldFiction2023
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya BhanooFiction2023
The Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation by Scott CarneyFiction2023
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine ChanFiction2023
Trust by Hernan DiazFiction2023
The Candy House by Jennifer EganFiction2023
If I Survive You by Jonathan EscofferyFiction2023
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar HokeahFiction2023
The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew HolleranFiction2023
Demon Copperhead by Barbara KingsolverFiction2023
What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi KolluriFiction2023
The Book of Goose by Yiyun LiFiction2023
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John MandelFiction2023
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthyFiction2023
How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia NagamatsuFiction2023
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'FarrellFiction2023
Young Mungo by Douglas StuartFiction2023
Joan is Okay by Weike WangFiction2023
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura WarrellFiction2023
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui ZhangFiction2023
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed YongNonfiction2023
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage by Rachel E. GrossNonfiction2023
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo JeffersonNonfiction2023
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate BeatonNonfiction2023
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. BurnhamNonfiction2023
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada CalhounNonfiction2023
The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir by Karen CheungNonfiction2023
Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons by Jeremy DenkNonfiction2023
Poverty, by America by Matthew DesmondNonfiction2023
The Third Person by Emma GroveNonfiction2023
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka HämäläinenNonfiction2023
Stay True by Hua HsuNonfiction2023
Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe by Keith O'BrienNonfiction2023
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'RourkeNonfiction2023
The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben RawlenceNonfiction2023
This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You by Susan RogersNonfiction2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas ContrerasNonfiction2023
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas ContrerasNonfiction2023
Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah RuhlNonfiction2023
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn SchulzNonfiction2023
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. ThrasherNonfiction2023
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth WilliamsonNonfiction2023
Solito: A Memoir by Javier ZamoraNonfiction2023
The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom LinFiction2022
Matrix by Lauren GroffFiction2022
The Five Wounds by Kirstin Valdez QuadeFiction2022
Gordo by Jaime CortezFiction2022
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony DoerrFiction2022
Infinite Country by Patricia EngelFiction2022
The Sentence by Louise ErdrichFiction2022
The Twilight Zone by Nona FernándezFiction2022
The Promise by Damon GalgutFiction2022
The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-KimFiction2022
The Book of Otto and Liam by Paul GrinerFiction2022
The Sweetness of Water by Nathan HarrisFiction2022
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo IshiguroFiction2022
Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghyFiction2022
Hell of a Book by Jason MottFiction2022
First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki MurakamiFiction2022
Things We Lost to the Water by Eric NguyenFiction2022
Bewilderment by Richard PowersFiction2022
China Room by Sunjeev SahotaFiction2022
Great Circle by Maggie ShipsteadFiction2022
The Country of Others by Leïla SlimaniFiction2022
Afterparties: Stories by Anthony Veasna SoFiction2022
Hao: Stories by Chun YeFiction2022
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif AbdurraqibNonfiction2022
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 by Ibram X. KendiNonfiction2022
Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen RadtkeNonfiction2022
Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James BrownNonfiction2022
The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle DreilingerNonfiction2022
The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon DunnNonfiction2022
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice by Scott EllsworthNonfiction2022
Why Peacocks?: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird by Sean FlynnNonfiction2022
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John GreenNonfiction2022
Poet Warrior: A Memoir by Joy HarjoNonfiction2022
My Broken Language: A Memoir by Quiara Alegría HudesNonfiction2022
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean JobbNonfiction2022
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden KeefeNonfiction2022
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2022
Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione LeeNonfiction2022
Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine MarçalNonfiction2022
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGheeNonfiction2022
A Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan MeiburgNonfiction2022
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam QuinonesNonfiction2022
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred RembertNonfiction2022
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary RoachNonfiction2022
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
Lost Children Archive by Valeria LuiselliFiction2020
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi CoatesFiction2020
Feast Your Eyes by Myla GoldbergFiction2020
The Guest Book by Sarah BlakeFiction2020
Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-AknerFiction2020
Dominicana by Angie CruzFiction2020
Everything Inside: Stories by Edwidge DanticatFiction2020
Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy EllmannFiction2020
City of Girls by Elizabeth GilbertFiction2020
The World That We Knew by Alice HoffmanFiction2020
Memories of the Future by Siri HustvedtFiction2020
Inland by Téa ObrehtFiction2020
Prairie Fever by Michael ParkerFiction2020
The Dutch House by Ann PatchettFiction2020
Disappearing Earth by Julia PhillipsFiction2020
Lanny by Max PorterFiction2020
Normal People by Sally RooneyFiction2020
Quichotte by Salman RushdieFiction2020
The Grammarians by Cathleen SchineFiction2020
Grand Union: Stories by Zadie SmithFiction2020
The Far Field by Madhuri VijayFiction2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongFiction2020
The Nickel Boys by Colson WhiteheadFiction2020
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2020
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam HigginbothamNonfiction2020
Figuring by Maria PopovaNonfiction2020
The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David TreuerNonfiction2020
Places and Names: On War, Revolution, and Returning by Elliot AckermanNonfiction2020
Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie AranaNonfiction2020
Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life by Louise AronsonNonfiction2020
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas BrinkleyNonfiction2020
The Yellow House: A Memoir by Sarah M. BroomNonfiction2020
Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey CepNonfiction2020
Parkland by Dave CullenNonfiction2020
Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination by Brian Jay JonesNonfiction2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden KeefeNonfiction2020
An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago by Alex KotlowitzNonfiction2020
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacfarlaneNonfiction2020
In the Dream House: A Memoir by Carmen Maria MachadoNonfiction2020
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni MorrisonNonfiction2020
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado PerezNonfiction2020
Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel RichNonfiction2020
In the Country of Women: A Memoir by Susan StraightNonfiction2020
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian UrbinaNonfiction2020
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de WaalNonfiction2020
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-WellsNonfiction2020
The Great Believers by Rebecca MakkaiFiction2019
Waiting for Eden by Elliot AckermanFiction2019
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahFiction2019
Census by Jesse BallFiction2019
Freshwater by Akwaeke EmeziFiction2019
Virgil Wander by Leif EngerFiction2019
Ordinary People by Diana EvansFiction2019
Small Country by Gaël FayeFiction2019
Southernmost by Silas HouseFiction2019
An American Marriage by Tayari JonesFiction2019
Unsheltered by Barbara KingsolverFiction2019
The Mars Room: A Novel by Rachel KushnerFiction2019
The incendiaries by R. O. KwonFiction2019
Circe by Madeline MillerFiction2019
John Woman by Walter MosleyFiction2019
Warlight by Michael OndaatjeFiction2019
The Overstory by Richard PowersFiction2019
Lake Success by Gary ShteyngartFiction2019
You Think It, I'll Say It by Curtis SittenfeldFiction2019
The Parking Lot Attendant by Nafkote TamiratFiction2019
Clock Dance by Anne TylerFiction2019
Tin Man by Sarah WinmanFiction2019
The Mercy Seat by Elizabeth H. WinthropFiction2019
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese LaymonNonfiction2019
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco CantúNonfiction2019
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth MacyNonfiction2019
Fascism: A Warning by Madeleine K. AlbrightNonfiction2019
Boom Town: The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-class Metropolis by Sam AndersonNonfiction2019
High-Risers: Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing by Ben AustenNonfiction2019
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays by Alexander CheeNonfiction2019
The Poisoned City: Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy by Anna ClarkNonfiction2019
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: A Life by Jane Sherron De HartNonfiction2019
There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir by Casey GeraldNonfiction2019
Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2019
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey HilsumNonfiction2019
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray HintonNonfiction2019
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace JohnsonNonfiction2019
Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric KlinenbergNonfiction2019
The Cost of Living by Deborah LevyNonfiction2019
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamaraNonfiction2019
Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Tim MohrNonfiction2019
The Library Book by Susan OrleanNonfiction2019
Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry by Imani PerryNonfiction2019
The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After by Clemantine WamariyaNonfiction2019
Educated: A Memoir by Tara WestoverNonfiction2019
Manhattan Beach by Jennifer EganFiction2018
Washington Black by Esi EdugyanFiction2018
There There by Tommy OrangeFiction2018
Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersFiction2018
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn WardFiction2018
The Golden Legend by Nadeem AslamFiction2018
4 3 2 1 by Paul AusterFiction2018
Days without End by Sebastian BarryFiction2018
The Heart's Invisible Furies by John BoyneFiction2018
What We Lose by Zinzi ClemmonsFiction2018
The Graybar Hotel: Stories by Curtis DawkinsFiction2018
American War by Omar El AkkadFiction2018
Future Home of the Living God by Louise ErdrichFiction2018
Fresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey EugenidesFiction2018
History of Wolves by Emily FridlundFiction2018
Here in Berlin by Cristina GarcíaFiction2018
Less by Andrew Sean GreerFiction2018
Exit West by Mohsin HamidFiction2018
Human Acts by Kang HanFiction2018
White Tears by Hari KunzruFiction2018
The Night Ocean by Paul La FargeFiction2018
Five-Carat Soul by James McBrideFiction2018
The Ninth Hour by Alice McDermottFiction2018
Augustown by Kei MillerFiction2018
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati RoyFiction2018
The Golden House: A Novel by Salman RushdieFiction2018
Spoils by Brian Van ReetFiction2018
You Don't Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman AlexieNonfiction2018
The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel EllsbergNonfiction2018
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David GrannNonfiction2018
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark BowdenNonfiction2018
Grant by Ron ChernowNonfiction2018
We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNonfiction2018
The Gulf: The Making of An American Sea by Jack E. DavisNonfiction2018
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement by Jon ElseNonfiction2018
Richard Nixon: The Life by John A. FarrellNonfiction2018
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body by Roxane GayNonfiction2018
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen GreenblattNonfiction2018
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter IsaacsonNonfiction2018
Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr.Nonfiction2018
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah KolhatkarNonfiction2018
We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled: Voices from Syria by Wendy PearlmanNonfiction2018
Theft by Finding: Diaries (1977-2002) by David SedarisNonfiction2018
Where the Past Begins: A Writer's Memoir by Amy TanNonfiction2018
Gorbachev: His Life and Times by William TaubmanNonfiction2018
The Vaccine Race: Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease by Meredith WadmanNonfiction2018
The Best Land Under Heaven: The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny by Michael WallisNonfiction2018
Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News by Kevin YoungNonfiction2018
The Underground Railroad by Colson WhiteheadFiction2017
Moonglow by Michael ChabonFiction2017
Swing Time by Zadie SmithFiction2017
The Angel of History: A Novel by Rabih AlameddineFiction2017
Dodgers by Bill BeverlyFiction2017
Perfume River by Robert Olen ButlerFiction2017
Heroes of the Frontier by Dave EggersFiction2017
Sudden Death by Álvaro EnrigueFiction2017
LaRose by Louise ErdrichFiction2017
Homegoing by Yaa GyasiFiction2017
Imagine Me Gone by Adam HaslettFiction2017
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn IveyFiction2017
How I Became a North Korean: A Novel by Krys LeeFiction2017
Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo MbueFiction2017
The Sport of Kings by C. E. MorganFiction2017
Christodora by Tim MurphyFiction2017
Commonwealth by Ann PatchettFiction2017
Mister Monkey by Francine ProseFiction2017
The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic SmithFiction2017
My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutFiction2017
The Good Lieutenant: A Novel by Whitney TerrellFiction2017
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine ThienFiction2017
As Good as Gone by Larry WatsonFiction2017
Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline WoodsonFiction2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew DesmondNonfiction2017
The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice by Patricia Bell-ScottNonfiction2017
Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America by Patrick PhillipsNonfiction2017
Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel (Studies in Transgression) by Christopher P. DumNonfiction2017
White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America by Nancy IsenbergNonfiction2017
Lab Girl by Hope JahrenNonfiction2017
Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs by Robert KanigelNonfiction2017
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross KingNonfiction2017
Paper: Paging Through History by Mark KurlanskyNonfiction2017
Truevine by Beth MacyNonfiction2017
Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul by James McBrideNonfiction2017
City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben RawlenceNonfiction2017
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary RoachNonfiction2017
The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David SaxNonfiction2017
Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race by Margot Lee ShetterlyNonfiction2017
The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava SobelNonfiction2017
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes by Paul StaitiNonfiction2017
The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish by Emily VoigtNonfiction2017
Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File by John Edgar WidemanNonfiction2017
The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America's National Parks by Terry Tempest WilliamsNonfiction2017
Another Day in the Death of America by Gary YoungeNonfiction2017
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh NguyenFiction2016
The Book of Aron by Jim ShepardFiction2016
A Little Life by Hanya YanagiharaFiction2016
The Distant Marvels by Chantel AcevedoFiction2016
The Harder They Come by T.C. BoyleFiction2016
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters by Bonnie Jo CampbellFiction2016
Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill CleggFiction2016
Outline by Rachel CuskFiction2016
The Green Road by Anne EnrightFiction2016
Purity by Jonathan FranzenFiction2016
Best Boy by Eli GottliebFiction2016
City on Fire by Garth Risk HallbergFiction2016
Delicious Foods by James HannahamFiction2016
Welcome to Braggsville by T. Geronimo JohnsonFiction2016
Marvel and a Wonder by Joe MenoFiction2016
Honeydew by Edith PearlmanFiction2016
Prudence by David TreuerFiction2016
A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne TylerFiction2016
The Dying Grass by William T. VollmannFiction2016
The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories by Joy WilliamsFiction2016
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally MannNonfiction2016
H Is for Hawk by Helen MacdonaldNonfiction2016
The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World by Andrea WulfNonfiction2016
American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity by Christian G. AppyNonfiction2016
Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America by Ari BermanNonfiction2016
Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security by Sarah ChayesNonfiction2016
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi CoatesNonfiction2016
The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power by Steve FraserNonfiction2016
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen GreenNonfiction2016
Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America by Wil HaygoodNonfiction2016
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden HerreraNonfiction2016
Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry MarshNonfiction2016
How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family by Peter NabokovNonfiction2016
Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal by Jay PariniNonfiction2016
On the Move: A Life by Oliver SacksNonfiction2016
Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel by Carl SafinaNonfiction2016
The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy SchiffNonfiction2016
M Train by Patti SmithNonfiction2016
To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science by Steven WeinbergNonfiction2016
Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon WinchesterNonfiction2016
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony DoerrFiction2015
On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae LeeFiction2015
Nora Webster by Colm TóibínFiction2015
Song of the Shank: A Novel by Jeffery Renard AllenFiction2015
The Enchanted by Rene DenfeldFiction2015
Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay by Elena FerranteFiction2015
The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganFiction2015
Tigerman by Nick HarkawayFiction2015
The Confessions of Frances Godwin by Robert HellengaFiction2015
The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina HenríquezFiction2015
A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesFiction2015
Station Eleven by Emily St. John MandelFiction2015
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories by Hilary MantelFiction2015
In Paradise by Peter MatthiessenFiction2015
The Children Act by Ian McEwanFiction2015
Thirty Girls by Susan MinotFiction2015
The Bone Clocks by David MitchellFiction2015
The Crane Wife by Patrick NessFiction2015
Us by David NichollsFiction2015
Orfeo by Richard PowersFiction2015
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel by Francine ProseFiction2015
Something Rich and Strange: Selected Stories by Ron RashFiction2015
Lila by Marilynne RobinsonFiction2015
All My Puny Sorrows by Miriam ToewsFiction2015
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan StevensonNonfiction2015
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth KolbertNonfiction2015
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp by Lawrence WrightNonfiction2015
The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us by Diane AckermanNonfiction2015
The most dangerous book: the battle for James Joyce's Ulysses by Kevin BirminghamNonfiction2015
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard BlumNonfiction2015
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick BraggNonfiction2015
Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua DavisNonfiction2015
The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution by Jonathan EigNonfiction2015
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn GreenwaldNonfiction2015
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff HobbsNonfiction2015
The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter IsaacsonNonfiction2015
Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris by Eric JagerNonfiction2015
John Quincy Adams: American Visionary by Fred KaplanNonfiction2015
The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill LeporeNonfiction2015
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town by Beth MacyNonfiction2015
The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BCE – 1492 CE by Simon SchamaNonfiction2015
In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette by Hampton SidesNonfiction2015
Pandora's DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes Through History, Science, and One Family Tree by Lizzie StarkNonfiction2015
The Goldfinch by Donna TarttFiction2014
Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieFiction2014
Claire of the Sea Light by Edwidge DanticatFiction2014
Life After Life by Kate AtkinsonFiction2014
Archangel: Fiction by Andrea BarrettFiction2014
All the Land to Hold Us: A Novel by Rick BassFiction2014
The Circle by Dave EggersFiction2014
Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann GareyFiction2014
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth GilbertFiction2014
Enon by Paul HardingFiction2014
A Guide for the Perplexed by Dara HornFiction2014
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled HosseiniFiction2014
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher JansmaFiction2014
The Dinner by Herman KochFiction2014
The Lowland by Jhumpa LahiriFiction2014
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony MarraFiction2014
The Good Lord Bird by James McBrideFiction2014
The Woman Upstairs by Claire MessudFiction2014
A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth OzekiFiction2014
Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography by Richard RodriguezFiction2014
The Woman Who Lost Her Soul by Bob ShacochisFiction2014
Fools: Stories by Joan SilberFiction2014
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns GoodwinNonfiction2014
On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History by Nicholas A. BasbanesNonfiction2014
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital by Sheri FinkNonfiction2014
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Scott AndersonNonfiction2014
Bolivar: American Liberator by Marie AranaNonfiction2014
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth by Reza AslanNonfiction2014
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris BeamNonfiction2014
Wilson by A. Scott BergNonfiction2014
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James BrownNonfiction2014
Year Zero: A History of 1945 by Ian BurumaNonfiction2014
The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code by Margalit FoxNonfiction2014
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way it Does by Simon GarfieldNonfiction2014
Johnny Cash: The Life by Robert HilburnNonfiction2014
The Skies Belong to Us by Brendan I. KoernerNonfiction2014
Jack London: An American Life by Earle LaborNonfiction2014
Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin by Jill LeporeNonfiction2014
Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures by Virginia MorellNonfiction2014
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary RoachNonfiction2014
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric SchlosserNonfiction2014
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca SolnitNonfiction2014
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence WrightNonfiction2014
Canada by Richard FordFiction2013
This Is How You Lose Her by Junot DíazFiction2013
The Round House by Louise ErdrichFiction2013
Telegraph Avenue by Michael ChabonFiction2013
The Bartender's Tale by Ivan DoigFiction2013
Astray by Emma DonoghueFiction2013
Half Blood Blues by Esi EdugyanFiction2013
A Hologram for the King by Dave EggersFiction2013
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben FountainFiction2013
Arcadia by Lauren GroffFiction2013
The Dog Stars by Peter HellerFiction2013
In One Person by John IrvingFiction2013
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam JohnsonFiction2013
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel JoyceFiction2013
Flight Behavior by Barbara KingsolverFiction2013
The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent LamFiction2013
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary MantelFiction2013
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwanFiction2013
Home by Toni MorrisonFiction2013
Dear Life by Alice MunroFiction2013
The Cove by Ron RashFiction2013
The Lower River by Paul TherouxFiction2013
The Testament of Mary by Colm TóibínFiction2013
One Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan TropperFiction2013
The Beginner's Goodbye by Anne TylerFiction2013
Beautiful Ruins by Jess WalterFiction2013
Battleborn by Claire Vaye WatkinsFiction2013
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy EganNonfiction2013
The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death by Jill LeporeNonfiction2013
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David QuammenNonfiction2013
Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine BooNonfiction2013
James Joyce: a new biography by Gordon BowkerNonfiction2013
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan CainNonfiction2013
The Passage of Power by Robert A. CaroNonfiction2013
Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America by Tanner ColbyNonfiction2013
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe by George DysonNonfiction2013
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim HoltNonfiction2013
Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars by Paul IngrassiaNonfiction2013
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen IversenNonfiction2013
Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross KingNonfiction2013
Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America by Jonathan KozolNonfiction2013
Barack Obama: The Story by David MaranissNonfiction2013
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon MeachamNonfiction2013
Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy by Paul Thomas MurphyNonfiction2013
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy by David NasawNonfiction2013
The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George PackerNonfiction2013
The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea by Callum RobertsNonfiction2013
Joseph Anton by Salman RushdieNonfiction2013
The Oath: The Obama White House and The Supreme Court by Jeffrey ToobinNonfiction2013
The Social Conquest of Earth by Edward O. WilsonNonfiction2013
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette WintersonNonfiction2013
The Forgotten Waltz by Anne EnrightFiction2012
Lost Memory of Skin by Russell BanksFiction2012
Swamplandia! by Karen RussellFiction2012
The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesFiction2012
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWittFiction2012
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey EugenidesFiction2012
Say Her Name by Francisco GoldmanFiction2012
Faith by Jennifer HaighFiction2012
The Art of Fielding by Chad HarbachFiction2012
When She Woke by Hillary JordanFiction2012
Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes by William KennedyFiction2012
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlanteFiction2012
Light Lifting by Alexander MacLeodFiction2012
1Q84 by Haruki MurakamiFiction2012
The Tiger's Wife by Téa ObrehtFiction2012
The Cat's Table by Michael OndaatjeFiction2012
The Tragedy of Arthur by Arthur PhillipsFiction2012
Luminarium by Alex ShakarFiction2012
We the Animals by Justin TorresFiction2012
American Boy by Larry WatsonFiction2012
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. MassieNonfiction2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James GleickNonfiction2012
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning MarableNonfiction2012
Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time by Mark AdamsNonfiction2012
The Memory Palace by Mira BartókNonfiction2012
Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools by Steven BrillNonfiction2012
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David BrooksNonfiction2012
The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water by Charles FishmanNonfiction2012
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern by Stephen GreenblattNonfiction2012
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura HillenbrandNonfiction2012
Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens by Christopher HitchensNonfiction2012
Apollo's Angels : A History of Ballet by Jennifer HomansNonfiction2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanNonfiction2012
Elizabeth and Hazel: Two Women of Little Rock by David MargolickNonfiction2012
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris by David McCulloughNonfiction2012
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President by Candice MillardNonfiction2012
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha MukherjeeNonfiction2012
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan OrleanNonfiction2012
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72 by Molly PeacockNonfiction2012
Inside Scientology: The Story of America's Most Secretive Religion by Janet ReitmanNonfiction2012

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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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