Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2014

Winner

• The Bully Pulpit

  Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
  Doris Kearns Goodwin

Finalists

• On Paper

  The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year History
  Nicholas A. Basbanes
• Five Days at Memorial

  Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital
  Sheri Fink

Longlist

• Lawrence in Arabia

  War, Deceit, Imperial Folly, and the Making of the Modern Middle East
  Scott Anderson
• Bolívar

  American Liberator
  Marie Arana
• Zealot

  The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
  Reza Aslan
• To the End of June

  The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
  Cris Beam
• Wilson
  A. Scott Berg
• The Boys in the Boat

  Nine Americans and Their Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  Daniel James Brown
• Year Zero

  A History of 1945
  Ian Buruma
• The Riddle of the Labyrinth

  The Quest to Crack an Ancient Code
  Margalit Fox
• On the Map

  A Mind-Expanding Exploration of the Way the World Looks
  Simon Garfield
• Johnny Cash

  The Life
  Robert Hilburn
• The Skies Belong to Us

  Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking
  Brendan I. Koerner
• Jack London

  An American Life
  Earle Labor
• Book of Ages

  The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
  Jill Lepore
• Animal Wise

  The Thoughts and Emotions of Our Fellow Creatures
  Virginia Morell
• The Unwinding

  An Inner History of the New America
  George Packer
• Gulp

  Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
  Mary Roach
• Darling

  A Spiritual Autobiography
  Richard Rodriguez
• Command and Control

  Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
  Eric Schlosser
• The Faraway Nearby
  Rebecca Solnit
• Going Clear

  Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
  Lawrence Wright