Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction Shortlist

DiscussieThe Prizes

Sluit je aan bij LibraryThing om te posten.

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and Non-Fiction Shortlist

Dit onderwerp is gemarkeerd als "slapend"—het laatste bericht is van meer dan 90 dagen geleden. Je kan het activeren door een een bericht toe te voegen.

1alexdaw
apr 8, 2014, 5:09 pm

2TooBusyReading
apr 8, 2014, 8:07 pm

I've read only two of those, but I loved both Claire of the Sea Light and Five Days at Memorial.

I have both The Goldfinch and The Bully Pulpit, but haven't got around to reading either of them yet.

Thanks for posting the list.

3bergs47
apr 13, 2015, 8:59 am

The six titles selected for the
2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Shortlist:

FICTION
All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr
Nora Webster, by Colm Tóibín
On Such a Full Sea, by Chang-rae Lee

NON-Fiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert
Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David, by Lawrence Wright.

The winners, one each in fiction and nonfiction, will be announced on June 27 at ALA Annual Conference.

5bergs47
okt 29, 2015, 5:27 am


2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals Shortlist Announced

The shortlist for the fifth Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction has just been announced

Fiction

The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard

A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara

The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

Nonfiction

H Is for Hawk, by Helen Macdonald

Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs, by Sally Mann

The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, by Andrea Wulf

7bergs47
sep 30, 2016, 9:32 am

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence: Longlist 2017

Nonfiction:

Bell-Scott, Patricia. The Firebrand and the First Lady: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice.

Desmond, Matthew. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City.

Dum, Christopher P. Exiled in America: Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel.

France, David. How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS.

Isenberg, Nancy. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America.

Jahren, Hope. Lab Girl.

Kanigel, Robert. Eyes on the Street: The Life of Jane Jacobs.

King, Ross. Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies.

Kurlansky, Mark. Paper: Paging through History.

Macy, Beth. Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest—A True Story of the Jim Crow South.

McBride, James. Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul.

McDonald-Gibson, Charlotte. Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis.

Phillips, Patrick. Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America.

Rawlence, Ben. City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World’s Largest Refugee Camp.

Roach, Mary. Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War.

Sax, David. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter.

Shetterly, Margot Lee. Hidden Figures:The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race.

Sobel, Dava. The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars.

Staiti, Paul. Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters’ Eyes.

Wideman, John Edgar. Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File.

Williams, Terry Tempest. The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks.

Voight, Emily. The Dragon behind the Glass. A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish.

Younge, Gary. Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives.

8bergs47
feb 13, 2018, 8:35 am

The American Library Association (ALA) selects Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan as the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir by Sherman Alexie as the winner of the 2018 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

The 2018 fiction finalists included Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders and Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward.

Nonfiction finalists included The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg and Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann.