Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

Program · United States · Tier 2: Major National and Category Prizes · General Literature

Library-selected medals recognising outstanding adult fiction and non-fiction.

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2022

1 books

Empire of Pain

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe · 2022

2021

5 books

Deacon King Kong

Winner

Deacon King Kong

James McBride · 2021

Hidden Valley Road

Hidden Valley Road

Robert Kolker · 2021

Interior Chinatown

Interior Chinatown

Charles Yu · 2021

Shuggie Bain

Shuggie Bain

Douglas Stuart · 2021

Utopia Avenue

Utopia Avenue

David Mitchell · 2021

2020

2 books

Midnight in Chernobyl

Winner

Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham · 2020

Underland

Underland

Robert Macfarlane · 2020

2019

2 books

The Incendiaries

The Incendiaries

R. O. Kwon · 2019

There There

There There

Tommy Orange · 2019

2018

1 books

Human Acts

Human Acts

Han Kang · 2018

2017

3 books

Evicted

Winner

Evicted

Matthew Desmond · 2017

The Underground Railroad

Winner

The Underground Railroad

Colson Whitehead · 2017

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

David France · 2017

2016

1 books

The Sympathizer

Winner

The Sympathizer

Viet Thanh Nguyen · 2016

2015

1 books

Just Mercy

Winner

Just Mercy

Bryan Stevenson · 2015

2012

1 books

The Forgotten Waltz

Winner

The Forgotten Waltz

Anne Enright · 2012

Year unknown

1 books

Christodora

Christodora