Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2013

Winner

• Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher

  The Epic Life And Immortal Photographs Of Edward Curtis
  Timothy Egan

Finalists

• The Mansion of Happiness

  A History of Life and Death
  Jill Lepore
• Spillover

  Animal Infections And The Next Human Pandemic
  David Quammen

Longlist

• Behind the Beautiful Forevers

  Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
  Katherine Boo
• James Joyce

  A New Biography
  Gordon Bowker
• Quiet

  The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
  Susan Cain
• The Passage of Power

  The Years of Lyndon Johnson
  Robert A. Caro
• Some of My Best Friends Are Black

  The Strange Story of Integration in America
  Tanner Colby
• Turing's Cathedral

  The Origins of the Digital Universe
  George Dyson
• Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story
  Jim Holt
• Engines of Change

  A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars
  Paul Ingrassia
• Full Body Burden

  Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
  Kristen Iversen
• Leonardo and the Last Supper
  Ross King
• Fire in the Ashes

  Twenty-Five Years among the Poorest Children in America
  Jonathan Kozol
• Barack Obama

  The Story
  David Maraniss
• Thomas Jefferson

  The Art Of Power
  Jon Meacham
• Shooting Victoria

  Madness, Mayhem, And The Rebirth Of The British Monarchy
  Paul Thomas Murphy
• The Patriarch

  The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
  David Nasaw
• The Ocean of Life

  The Fate of Man and the Sea
  Callum Roberts
• Joseph Anton

  A Memoir
  Salman Rushdie
• The Oath

  The Obama White House and the Supreme Court
  Jeffrey Toobin
• The Social Conquest Of Earth
  Edward O. Wilson
• Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
  Jeanette Winterson