2026 Winners
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.
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Fiction Longlist
Nonfiction Longlist
Abdelmoumen, Mélikah.
Translated by Catherine Khordoc.
Published by Biblioasis
Baron, David.
Published by Norton/Liveright
Dickinson, Elizabeth Evitts.
Published by Simon & Schuster
Elmhirst, Sophie.
Published by Riverhead
Ewing, Eve L.
Published by One World
Fraser, Caroline.
Published by Penguin Press
Grant, Rebecca.
Published by Simon & Schuster/Avid Reader
Howard, Gerald.
Published by Penguin Press
Pember, Mary Annette.
Published by Pantheon
Tawada, Yoko.
Translated by Lisa Hoffman-Kuroda.
Published by New Directions
Weiss, Elaine.
Published by Atria/One Signal
Wilkinson, Alissa.
Published by Norton/Liveright