Living Canon

Carnegie Medal

The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded by the American Library Association since 2012, honor the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the United States.

• Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li

  2026CarnegieNonfiction
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  A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar

  2026CarnegieFiction
• James by Percival Everett

  2025CarnegieFiction
• A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko

  2025CarnegieNonfiction
• We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian

  2024CarnegieNonfiction
• The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters

  2024CarnegieFiction
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  The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka

  2023CarnegieFiction
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  An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

  2023CarnegieNonfiction
• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu by Tom Lin

  2022CarnegieFiction
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  A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib

  2022CarnegieNonfiction
• Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs

  2021CarnegieNonfiction
• Deacon King Kong by James McBride

  2021CarnegieFiction
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  Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham

  2020CarnegieNonfiction
• Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli

  2020CarnegieFiction
• The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

  2019CarnegieFiction
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  Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

  2019CarnegieNonfiction
• Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

  2018CarnegieFiction
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  The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

  2017CarnegieFiction
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  Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

  2017CarnegieNonfiction
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  The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen

  2016CarnegieFiction
• Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann

  2016CarnegieNonfiction
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  Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson

  2015CarnegieNonfiction
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  All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr

  2015CarnegieFiction
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  The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

  2014CarnegieFiction
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  The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

  2014CarnegieNonfiction
• Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

  2013CarnegieNonfiction
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  Canada by Richard Ford

  2013CarnegieFiction
• The Forgotten Waltz by Anne Enright

  2012CarnegieFiction
• Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie

  2012CarnegieNonfiction

• Fiction
• Nonfiction

See also

• Agatha Awards
• Anthony Awards
• Arthur C. Clarke Award
• Booker Prize
• Bram Stoker Awards
• Caldecott Medal
• Coretta Scott King Award
• Costa Book Awards
• Edgar Awards
• Giller Prize
• Hugo Awards
• International Booker Prize
• Kirkus Prize
• Lambda Literary Awards
• Locus Awards
• Michael L. Printz Award
• Miles Franklin Award
• National Book Award
• National Book Critics Circle Award
• Nebula Awards
• Newbery Medal
• Nobel Prize in Literature
• PEN/Faulkner Award
• PEN/Hemingway Award
• Pulitzer Prizes
• Women’s Prize for Fiction
• World Fantasy Awards