Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2022

by American Library Association

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22 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.

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Winner

A Little Devil in America

Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib, 2021

Finalists

Four Hundred Souls

A Community History of African America, 1619-2019

Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha N. Blain, 2022

Seek You

A Journey Through American Loneliness

Kristen Radtke, 2021

Longlist

Facing the Mountain

A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II

Daniel James Brown, 2021

The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Danielle Dreilinger, 2021

The Glitter in the Green

In Search of Hummingbirds

The Ground Breaking

An American City and Its Search for Justice

Scott Ellsworth, 2021

Why Peacocks?

An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird

Sean Flynn, 2021

The Anthropocene Reviewed

Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

John Green, 2021

Poet Warrior: A Memoir

Joy Harjo, 2021

My Broken Language

Quiara Alegría Hudes, 2021

The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer

Dean Jobb, 2021

Empire of Pain

The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty

Patrick Radden Keefe, 2021

Under a White Sky

The Nature of the Future

Elizabeth Kolbert, 2021

Tom Stoppard

Hermione Lee, 2021

Mother of Invention

How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men

Katrine Marçal, 2021

The Sum of Us

What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together

Heather McGhee, 2021

A Most Remarkable Creature

The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey

Jonathan Meiburg, 2021

The Least of Us

True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth

Sam Quinones, 2021

Chasing Me to My Grave

An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South

Winfred Rembert, Erin I. Kelly, 2021

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

Mary Roach, 2021

Smile

The Story of a Face

Sarah Ruhl, 2021