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Awards Longlist

Start reading these 2013 longlist titles now to count down to the shortlist announcement this spring! The 50 titles under consideration for the 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction are:

Fiction

Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue. (Harper)

Díaz, Junot. This Is How You Lose Her. (Riverhead)

Doig, Ivan. The Bartender’s Tale. (Riverhead)
Donoghue, Emma. Astray. (Little, Brown)
Edugyan, Esi. Half-Blood Blues. (Picador)
Eggers, Dave. A Hologram for the King. (McSweeney’s)
Erdrich, Louise. The Round House. (Harper)
Ford, Richard. Canada. (Harper/Ecco)
Fountain, Ben. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. (Harper/Ecco)
Groff, Lauren. Arcadia. (Hyperion/Voice)
Heller, Peter. The Dog Stars. (Knopf)
Irving, John. In One Person. (Simon & Schuster)
Johnson, Adam. The Orphan Master’s Son. (Random House)
Joyce, Rachel. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. (Random House)
Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. (Harper)
Lam, Vincent. The Headmaster’s Wager. (Random/Hogarth)
Mantel, Hilary. Bring Up the Bodies. (Holt)
McEwan, Ian. Sweet Tooth. (Random/Nan A. Talese)
Morrison, Toni. Home. (Knopf)
Munro, Alice. Dear Life. (Knopf)
Rash, Ron. The Cove. (Harper/Ecco)
Theroux, Paul. The Lower River. (Houghton)
Tóibín, Colm. The Testament of Mary. (Scribner)
Tropper, Jonathan. One Last Thing before I Go. (Dutton)
Tyler, Anne. The Beginner’s Goodbye. (Knopf)
Walter, Jess. Beautiful Ruins. (Harper)
Watkins, Claire Vaye. Battleborn. (Riverhead)

Nonfiction

Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. (Random House)
Bowker, Gordon. James Joyce: A New Biography. (Farrar Straus Giroux)
Cain, Susan. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking. (Crown)
Caro, Robert A. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. (Knopf)
Colby, Tanner. Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. (Viking)
Dyson, George. Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe. (Pantheon)
Egan, Timothy. Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis. (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
Holt, Jim. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. (Norton/Liveright)
Ingrassia, Paul. Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. (Simon & Schuster)
Iversen, Kristen. Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats. (Crown)
King, Ross. Leonardo and the Last Supper. (Walker)
Kozol, Jonathan. Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years among the Poorest Children in America. (Crown)
Lepore, Jill. The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death. (Knopf)
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story. (Simon & Schuster)
Meacham, Jon. Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power. (Random House)
Murphy, Paul Thomas. Shooting Victoria: Madness, Mayhem, and the Rebirth of the British Monarchy. (Pegasus)
Nasaw, David. The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy. (Penguin)
Quammen, David. Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic. (Norton)
Roberts, Callum. Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea. (Viking)
Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. (Random House)
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. (Doubleday)
Wilson, Edward O. The Social Conquest of Earth. (Norton/Liveright)
Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove/Atlantic)