The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction & Nonfiction were established by Carnegie Corporation of New York and ALA in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S. the previous year. The Medals and the lists leading up to the selection of the winners serve as a guide to selecting quality reading material.
Forty-four books comprising the “longlist†for consideration for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction have been selected from the most recent Booklist Editors’ Choice and RUSA Notable Books List.
Six-title shortlist; three fiction and three nonfiction medals will be announced in late April. The two winners will be announced at ALA Annual Conference in June in Las Vegas. The longlist is available on the awards’ website.
Awards Longlist:
Start reading these 2014 longlist titles now to count down to the shortlist announcement this spring! The titles under consideration for the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction are:
Fiction
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. (Knopf)
Atkinson, Kate. Life after Life. (Little, Brown/Reagan Arthur)
Barrett, Andrea. Archangel. (Norton)
Bass, Rick. All the Land to Hold Us. (Houghton)
Danticat, Edwidge. Claire of the Sea Light. (Knopf)
Eggers, Dave. The Circle. (Knopf)
Garey, Juliann. Too Bright to Hear, Too Loud to See. (Soho)
Gilbert, Elizabeth. The Signature of All Things. (Viking)
Harding, Paul. Enon. (Random House)
Horn, Dara. A Guide for the Perplexed. (Norton)
Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. (Riverhead)
Jansma, Kristopher. The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. (Viking)
Koch, Herman. The Dinner. (Hogarth)
Lahiri, Jhumpa. The Lowland. (Knopf)
Marra, Anthony. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena. (Hogarth)
McBride, James. The Good Lord Bird. (Riverhead)
Messud, Claire. The Woman Upstairs. (Knopf)
Ozeki, Ruth. A Tale for the Time Being. (Viking)
Shacochis, Bob. The Woman Who Lost Her Soul. (Atlantic Monthly)
Silber, Joan. Fools. (Norton)
Tartt, Donna. The Goldfinch. (Little, Brown)
Nonfiction
Anderson, Scott. Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East. (Doubleday)
Arana, Marie. Bolivar: American Liberator. (Simon & Schuster)
Aslan, Reza. Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. (Random House)
Basbanes, Nicholas. On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand Year History. (Knopf)
Beam, Cris. To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care. (Houghton)
Berg, A. Scott. Wilson. (Putnam)
Brown, Daniel James. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. (Viking)
Buruma, Ian. Year Zero: A History of 1945. (Penguin)
Fink, Sheri. Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. (Crown)
Fox, Margalit. The Riddle of the Labyrinth: The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. (Ecco)
Garfield, Simon. On the Map: A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks. (Gotham)
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism. (Simon & Schuster)
Hilburn, Robert. Johnny Cash: The Life. (Little, Brown)
Koerner, Brendan I. The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking. (Crown)
Labor, Earle. Jack London: An American Life. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Lepore, Jill. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin. (Knopf)
Morell, Virginia. Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures. (Crown)
Packer, George. The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal. (Norton)
Rodriguez, Richard. Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography. (Viking)
Schlosser, Eric. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. (Penguin)
Solnit, Rebecca. The Faraway Nearby. (Viking)
Wright, Lawrence. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. (Knopf)
Find out more about the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.