ALA Announces Longlist for 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals

The ALA has announced 23 fiction titles and 22 nonfiction titles long listed for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The six-title shortlist—made up of three fiction and three nonfiction titles—will be announced November 8. The two medal winners will be announced by 2022 selection committee chair Terry Hong at the Reference and User Services Association's Book and Media Awards on January 23, 2022. A celebratory ceremony will take place at the 2022 ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. in June. Each of the two Carnegie Medal winners will receive $5,000. 

The longlists are as follows: 

Fiction

• Gordo by Jaime Cortez (Black Cat) 
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) 
• Infinite Country by Patricia Engel (Avid Reader) 
• The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Harper) 
• The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernandez (Graywolf) 
• The Promise by Damon Galgut (Europa)
• The Waiting by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn & Quarterly)
• The Book of Otto and Liam by Paul Griner (Sarabande Books) 
• Matrix by Lauren Gross (Riverhead) 
• The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris (Little, Brown)
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf) 
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin (Little, Brown)
• Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy (Flatiron) 
• Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Dutton)
• First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami (Knopf) 
• Things We Lost to the Water by Eric Nguyen (Knopf) 
• Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Norton) 
• The Five Wounds by Kristin Valdez Quade (Norton)
• China Room by Sunjeev Sahota (Viking) 
• Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Knopf) 
• In the Country of Others by Leila Slimani (Penguin Books) 
• Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So (Ecco)
• Hao by Chun Ye (Catapult) 

Nonfiction

• A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Random House)
• Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II by Daniel James Brown (Viking) 
• The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger (Norton) 
• The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds by Jon Dunn (Basic) 
• ​The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice (Dutton)
•  Why Peacocks? An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird by Sean Flynn (Simon & Schuster) 
• ​The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human Centered Planet by John Green (Dutton) 
• Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo (Norton) 
• My Broken Language by Quiara Alegría Hudes (One World) 
• The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb (Algonquin) 
• Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefer (Doubleday) 
• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019 by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (One World) 
• Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future by Elizabeth Kolbert (Crown) 
• Tom Stoppard: A Life by Hermione Lee (Knopf) 
• Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men by Katrine Marçal (Abrams) 
• The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee (One World)
• The Most Remarkable Creature: The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey by Jonathan Meiburg (Knopf) 
• The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury) 
• Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke (Pantheon) 
• Chasing Me to My Grave: Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winifred Rembert (Bloomsbury) 
• Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach (Norton) 
• Smile: The Story of a Face by Sarah Ruhl (Simon & Schuster)