Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2024

by American Library Association
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24 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.
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The New Guys

The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
Meredith Bagby, 2023

He/She/They

How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters
Schuyler Bailar, 2023

The Burning of the World

The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul
Scott W. Berg, 2023

Better Living Through Birding

Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Christian Cooper, 2023

Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond, 2023

A Fever in the Heartland

The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
Timothy Egan, 2023

Airplane Mode

An Irreverent History of Travel
Shahnaz Habib, 2023

Okinawa

Susumu Higa, 2023

An Amerikan Family

The Shakurs and the Nation They Created
Santi Elijah Holley, 2023

The Country of the Blind

A Memoir at the End of Sight
Andrew Leland, 2023

American Whitelash

A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
Wesley Lowery, 2023

A Man of Two Faces

A Memoir, A History, A Memorial
Viet Thanh Nguyen, 2023

The People's Hospital

Hope and Peril in American Medicine
Ricardo Nuila, 2023

A Darker Wilderness

Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
Erin Sharkey, 2023

Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny, 2023

The 272

The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
Rachel L. Swarns, 2023

Our Migrant Souls

A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”
Héctor Tobar, 2023

Wonder Drug

The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims
Jennifer Vanderbes, 2023

Project 562

Changing the Way We See Native America
Matika Wilbur, 2023

The Riders Come Out at Night

Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland
Ali Winston, Darwin BondGraham, 2023

Master Slave Husband Wife

An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
Ilyon Woo, 2023