Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2012

Winner

• Catherine the Great

  Portrait of a Woman
  Robert K. Massie

Finalists

• The Information

  A History, a Theory, a Flood
  James Gleick
• Malcolm X

  A Life of Reinvention
  Manning Marable

Longlist

• Turn Right at Machu Picchu

  Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
  Mark Adams
• The Memory Palace
  Mira Bartok
• Class Warfare

  Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
  Steven Brill
• The Social Animal

  The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
  David Brooks
• The Big Thirst

  The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
  Charles Fishman
• The Swerve

  How the World Became Modern
  Stephen Greenblatt
• Unbroken

  A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
  Laura Hillenbrand
• Arguably

  Essays
  Christopher Hitchens
• Apollo's Angels

  A History of Ballet
  Jennifer Homans
• Thinking, Fast and Slow
  Daniel Kahneman
• Elizabeth and Hazel

  Two Women of Little Rock
  David Margolick
• The Greater Journey

  Americans in Paris
  David McCullough
• Destiny of the Republic

  A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
  Candice Millard
• The Emperor of All Maladies

  A Biography of Cancer
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Rin Tin Tin

  The Life and the Legend
  Susan Orlean
• The Paper Garden

  An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
  Molly Peacock
• Inside Scientology

  The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion
  Janet Reitman