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2024 Carnegie Medals - Nonfiction

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. These awards are presented by the American Library Association. Winners were announced on January 20, 2024.

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22 items

  • We Were Once a Family

    a Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

    Asgarian, Roxanna, 1987-
    Winner, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 364.1523 ASGARIAN 2023
  • The Great Displacement

    Climate Change and the Next American Migration

    Bittle, Jake,
    Finalist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Simon & Schuster, 2023. — 362.8709 BITTLE 2023
  • Finalist, Nonfiction
    Graphic Novel, 2023New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023. — 305.896 BELL 2023
  • The New Guys

    the Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

    Bagby, Meredith E.,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York, NY : William Morrow, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023]. — 629.45 BAGBY 2023
  • He/she/they

    How We Talk About Gender and Why It Matters

    Bailar, Schuyler,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    eBook, 2023New York, NY : Hachette Go, 2023.
  • The Burning of the World

    the Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

    Berg, Scott W.,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Pantheon Books, [2023]. — 977.311 BERG 2023
  • Better Living Through Birding

    Notes From a Black Man in the Natural World

    Cooper, Christian,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023]. — 598.0723 COOPER 2023
  • Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Crown, [2023]. — 362.5097 DESMOND 2023
  • A Fever in the Heartland

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

    Egan, Timothy,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Viking, [2023]. — 322.4209 EGAN 2023
  • Longlist, Nonfiction
    Graphic Novel, 2023Seattle, Washington : Fantagraphics Books, [2023] — HIGA 2023
  • An Amerikan Family

    the Shakurs and the Nation They Created

    Holley, Santi Elijah,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Mariner Books, [2023]. — 974.71 HOLLEY 2023
  • The Country of the Blind

    a Memoir at the End of Sight

    Leland, Andrew,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Penguin Press, 2023. — 362.4109 LELAND 2023
  • American Whitelash

    a Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

    Lowery, Wesley, 1990-
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Mariner Books, [2023]. — 305.8009 LOWERY 2023
  • A Man of Two Faces

    a Memoir, a History, a Memorial

    Nguyen, Viet Thanh, 1971-
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Grove Press,an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2023. — NGUYEN, VIET THAN Nguyen
  • The People's Hospital

    Hope and Peril in American Medicine

    Nuila, Ricardo, 1978-
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Scribner, 2023. — 362.1109 NUILA 2023
  • A Darker Wilderness

    Black Nature Writing From Soil to Stars

    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2023. — 814.608 DARKER W 2023
  • Brave the Wild River

    the Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

    Sevigny, Melissa L., 1986-
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]. — 578.0979 SEVIGNY 2023
  • The 272

    the Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

    Swarns, Rachel L.,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Random House, [2023]. — 378.753 SWARNS 2023
  • Our Migrant Souls

    a Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"

    Tobar, Héctor, 1963-
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023. — 305.868 TOBAR 2023
  • Wonder Drug

    the Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

    Vanderbes, Jennifer,
    Longlist, Nonfiction
    Book, 2023New York : Random House, [2023]. — 615.782 VANDERBES 2023