Literary Awards
Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
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
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie · 2011 · 1 list
- 2
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Timothy Egan · 2012 · 1 list
- 3
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Doris Kearns Goodwin · 2013 · 1 list
- 4
Just Mercy
Bryan Stevenson · 2014 · 2 lists
- 5
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs
Sally Mann · 2015 · 1 list
- 6
Evicted
Matthew Desmond · 2016 · 7 lists
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Heavy
Kiese Laymon · 2005 · 2 lists
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham · 2019 · 2 lists
- 9
Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Rebecca Giggs · 2020 · 1 list
- 10
A Little Devil in America
Hanif Abdurraqib · 2021 · 2 lists
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We Were Once A Family
Roxanna Asgarian · 2023 · 2 lists
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A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Kevin Fedarko · 1 list
- 14
Things in Nature Merely Grow
Yiyun Li · 2025 · 1 list