Carnegie Medal — Nonfiction

Things in Nature Merely Grow by Yiyun Li
2026 Carnegie Nonfiction
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko
2025 Carnegie Nonfiction
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian
2024 Carnegie Nonfiction
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
2023 Carnegie Nonfiction
A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
2022 Carnegie Nonfiction
Fathoms: The World in the Whale by Rebecca Giggs
2021 Carnegie Nonfiction
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster by Adam Higginbotham
2020 Carnegie Nonfiction
Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
2019 Carnegie Nonfiction
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
2017 Carnegie Nonfiction
Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs by Sally Mann
2016 Carnegie Nonfiction
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
2015 Carnegie Nonfiction
The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin
2014 Carnegie Nonfiction
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
2013 Carnegie Nonfiction
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman by Robert K. Massie
2012 Carnegie Nonfiction