Carnegie Medal Shortlist 2019

Nov 05, 2019

The American Library Association has announced the six books shortlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the United States. The two medal winners will be announced by 2020 selection committee chair Donna Seaman at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards (BMAs) event at the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pa., on Sunday, January 26, 2020. Carnegie Medal winners will each receive $5,000. All the finalists will be honored during a celebratory event at ALA’s 2020 Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill.

2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction shortlist titles include:

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2020 Shortlist

  • Figuring by Maria Popova (Pantheon)
  • The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present by David Treuer (Riverhead)
  • Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham (Simon & Schuster)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2020 Shortlist

  • Feast Your Eyes by Myla Goldberg (Scribner)
  • Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli (Knopf)
  • The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates (One World)
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