Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

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Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence, 23 Books

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, established in 2012, recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year and serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material. They are the first single-book awards for adult books given by the American Library Association and reflect the expert judgment and insight of library professionals who work closely with adult readers.

This list is a yearly book award, and was added to this site over 2 years ago.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
14901 The Forgotten Waltz Anne Enright 2011 Irish English
14165 Catherine The Great Robert K. Massie 2011 American English
5594 Canada Richard Ford 2012 American English
14901 Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher Timothy Egan 2012 American English
740 The Goldfinch Donna Tartt 2013 American English
12261 The Bully Pulpit Doris Kearns Goodwin 2013 American English
1431 All the Light We Cannot See Anthony Doerr 2014 American English
3585 Just Mercy Bryan Stevenson 2014 American English
921 The Sympathizer Viet Thanh Nguyen 2015 American English
6528 Hold Still Sally Mann 2015 American English
769 The Underground Railroad Colson Whitehead 2016 American English
1392 Evicted Matthew Desmond 2016 American English
14165 Manhattan Beach Jennifer Egan 2017 American English
2086 The Great Believers Rebecca Makkai 2018 American English
2605 Heavy Kiese Laymon 2018 American English
2703 Lost Children Archive Valeria Luiselli 2019 Mexican English
8874 Midnight In Chernobyl Adam Higginbotham 2024 British English
4610 Deacon King Kong James McBride 2020 American English
14901 Fathoms Rebecca Giggs 2020 Australian English
17008 The Thousand Crimes Of Ming Tsu Tom Lin 2021 American English
14901 A Little Devil In America Hanif Abdurraqib 2021 American English
17008 The Swimmers Julie Otsuka 2022 American English
9242 An Immense World Ed Yong 2022 British English