Forty books (20 fiction, 20 nonfiction) comprising the longlist for the 2016 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction have been selected. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from these 40 titles and announced on October 19. The two medal winners will be announced by selection committee Chair Nancy Pearl at RUSA’s Book and Media Awards (BMAs) event at the ALA Midwinter Meeting from 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 10 in Boston.
Fiction
Acevedo, Chantel. The Distant Marvels. (Europa)
Boyle, T. C. The Harder They Come. (Ecco)
Campbell, Bonnie Jo. Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. (Norton)
Clegg, Bill. Did You Ever Have a Family. (Simon & Schuster/Scout)
Cusk, Rachel. Outline. (Farrar)
Enright, Anne. The Green Road. (Norton)
Franzen, Jonathan. Purity. (Farrar)
Gottlieb, Eli. Best Boy. (Norton/Liveright)
Hallberg, Garth Risk. City on Fire. (Knopf)
Hannaham, James. Delicious Foods. (Little, Brown)
Johnson, T. Geronimo. Welcome to Braggsville. (Morrow)
Meno, Joe. Marvel and a Wonder. (Akashic)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Sympathizer. (Grove)
Pearlman, Edith. Honeydew. (Little, Brown)
Shepard, Jim. The Book of Aron. (Knopf)
Treuer, David. Prudence. (Riverhead)
Tyler, Anne. A Spool of Blue Thread. (Knopf)
Vollmann, William T. The Dying Grass. (Viking)
Williams, Joy. The Visiting Privilege: New and Collected Stories. (Knopf)
Yanagihara, Hanya. A Little Life. (Doubleday)
Nonfiction
Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. (Viking)
Berman, Ari. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America. (Farrar)
Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security.(Norton)
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. (Spiegel & Grau)
Fraser, Steve. The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. (Little, Brown)
Green, Kristen. Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle. (Harper)
Haygood, Wil. Showdown: Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America. (Knopf)
Herrera, Hayden. Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi. (Farrar)
Macdonald, Helen. H Is for Hawk. (Grove)
Mann, Sally. Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs. (Little, Brown)
Marsh, Henry. Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery. (St. Martin’s/Thomas Dunne)
Nabokov, Peter. How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family. (Viking)
Parini, Jay. Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal. (Doubleday)
Sacks, Oliver. On the Move. (Knopf)
Safina, Carl. Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel. (Holt)
Schiff, Stacy. The Witches: Salem, 1692. (Little, Brown)
Smith, Patti. M Train. (Knopf)
Weinberg, Steven. To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science.(Harper)
Winchester, Simon. Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers. (Harper)
Wulf, Andrea. Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. (Knopf)
Find out more about the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction.