2026 Winners

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Forty-five extraordinary books—21 fiction and 24 nonfiction—have been named to the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence longlist.

The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced on November 18, 2025. The two medal winners will be announced on Tuesday, January 27, 2026.

Explore the full longlist and share your favorites using #ALA_Carnegie and our downloadable graphics.

Fiction Longlist

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Unworthy (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Unworthy

Bazterrica, Agustina.
Translated by Sarah Moses.
Published by Scribner

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flashlight (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Flashlight

Choi, Susan
Published by Farrar

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Correspondent (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Correspondent

Evans, Virginia.
Published by Crown

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Great Black Hope (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Great Black Hope

Franklin, Rob.
Published by Summit

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Hunchback (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Hunchback

Ichikawa, Saou.
Translated by Polly Barton.
Published by Hogarth

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, We Do Not Part (pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
We Do Not Part

Kang, Han.
Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris.
Published by Hogarth

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Sisters (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Sisters

Khemiri, Jonas Hassen.
Published by Farrar

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Names (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Names

Knapp, Florence.
Published by Pamela Dorman Books

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, A Guardian and a Thief (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
A Guardian and a Thief

Majumdar, Megha.
Published by Knopf

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Wild Dark Shore (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Wild Dark Shore

McConaghy, Charlotte.
Published by Flatiron

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, What We Can Know (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
What We Can Know

McEwan, Ian.
Published by Knopf

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, These Heathens (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
These Heathens

McKenzie, Mia.
Published by Random House

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, People Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
People Like Us

Mott, Jason.
Published by Dutton

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Girls Who Grew Too Big (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Girls Who Grew Big

Mottley, Leila.
Published by Knopf

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Colony (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Colony

Norlin, Annika.
Translated by Alice E. Olsson.
Published by Europa

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Tilt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Tilt

Pattee, Emma.
Published by Simon & Schuster/Marysue Rucci

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Imagined Life (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Imagined Life

Porter, Andrew.
Published by Knopf

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Terrestrial History (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Terrestrial History

Reed, Joe Mungo.
Published by Norton

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flesh (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Flesh

Szalay, David.
Published by Scribner

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Emperor of Gladness (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Emperor of Gladness

Vuong, Ocean.
Published by Penguin Press

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Good Dirt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Good Dirt

Wilkerson, Charmaine.
Published by Ballantine Books

Nonfiction Longlist

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin, Styron, and Me (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Baldwin, Styron, and Me

Abdelmoumen, Mélikah.
Translated by Catherine Khordoc.
Published by Biblioasis

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

Baron, David.
Published by Norton/Liveright

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights

Blain, Keisha N.
Published by Norton

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin: A Love Story (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Baldwin: A Love Story

Boggs, Nicholas.
Published by Farrar

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Cults Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America

Borden, Jane.
Published by Atria/One Signal

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free

Dickinson, Elizabeth Evitts.
Published by Simon & Schuster

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been against This (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been against This

El Akkad, Omar.
Published by Knopf

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck

Elmhirst, Sophie.
Published by Riverhead

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism

Ewing, Eve L.
Published by One World

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers

Fraser, Caroline.
Published by Penguin Press

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America

Goldstone, Brian.
Published by Crown

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, America, América: A New History of the New World (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
America, América: A New History of the New World

Grandin, Greg.
Published by Penguin Press

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom

Grant, Rebecca.
Published by Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature

Howard, Gerald.
Published by Penguin Press

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings

Jeffers, Honorée Fannone.
Published by Harper


Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Lepore, Jill.
Published by Norton/Liveright

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Things in Nature Merely Grow (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Things in Nature Merely Grow

Li, Yiyun.
Published by Farrar

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Is a River Alive? (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Is a River Alive?

Macfarlane, Robert.
Published by Norton

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Ghosts of Hiroshima (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Ghosts of Hiroshima

Pellegrino, Charles.
Published by Blackstone

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, (book cover pMedicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schoolsictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Medicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools

Pember, Mary Annette.
Published by Pantheon

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue

Tawada, Yoko.
Translated by Lisa Hoffman-Kuroda.
Published by New Directions

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement

Weiss, Elaine.
Published by Atria/One Signal

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine

Wilkinson, Alissa.
Published by Norton/Liveright

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship

Williams, Dana A.
Published by Amistad

Social Media Graphics for Longlist Fiction Titles

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Unworthy (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flashlight (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Correspondent (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Hunchback (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Great Black Hope (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, We Do Not Part (pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Sisters (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Names (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, A Guardian and a Thief (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Wild Dark Shore (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, What We Can Know (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, These Heathens (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Girls Who Grew Too Big (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, People Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Colony (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Tilt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Terrestrial History (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flesh (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Imagined Life (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Emperor of Gladness (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Good Dirt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Unworthy (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flashlight (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Correspondent (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Hunchback (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Great Black Hope (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, We Do Not Part (pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Sisters (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Names (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, A Guardian and a Thief (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Wild Dark Shore (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, What We Can Know (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, These Heathens (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Girls Who Grew Too Big (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, People Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Colony (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Tilt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Terrestrial History (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Flesh (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Imagined Life (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, The Emperor of Gladness (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Fiction Selection, Good Dirt (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist

Social Media Graphics for Longlist Nonfiction Titles

Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin, Styron, and Me (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin: A Love Story (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Cults Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been against This (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, America, América: A New History of the New World (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Things in Nature Merely Grow (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Is a River Alive? (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, (book cover pMedicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schoolsictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Ghosts of Hiroshima (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin, Styron, and Me (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Martians: The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Without Fear: Black Women and the Making of Human Rights. (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Baldwin: A Love Story (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Cults Like Us (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Claire McCardell: The Designer Who Set Women Free (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been against This (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Original Sins: The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Murderland: Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, America, América: A New History of the New World (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, The Insider: Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Things in Nature Merely Grow (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Is a River Alive? (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, (book cover pMedicine River: A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schoolsictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Ghosts of Hiroshima (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist Nonfiction Selection, Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship (book cover pictured). RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist