Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2015

Winner

• Just Mercy

  A Story of Justice and Redemption
  Bryan Stevenson

Finalists

• The Sixth Extinction

  An Unnatural History
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Thirteen Days in September

  The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace
  Lawrence Wright

Longlist

• The Human Age

  The World Shaped by Us
  Diane Ackerman
• The Most Dangerous Book

  The Battle for James Joyce's Ulysses
  Kevin Birmingham
• Dark Invasion

  1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America
  Howard Blum
• Jerry Lee Lewis

  His Own Story
  Rick Bragg
• Spare Parts

  Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream
  Joshua Davis
• The Birth of the Pill

  How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
  Jonathan Eig
• No Place to Hide

  Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State
  Glenn Greenwald
• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

  A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
  Jeff Hobbs
• The Innovators

  How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  Walter Isaacson
• Blood Royal

  A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris
  Eric Jager
• John Quincy Adams

  American Visionary
  Fred Kaplan
• The Secret History of Wonder Woman
  Jill Lepore
• Factory Man

  How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town
  Beth Macy
• The Story of the Jews

  Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492 AD
  Simon Schama
• In the Kingdom of Ice

  The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette
  Hampton Sides
• Pandora's DNA

  Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes through History, Science, and One Family Tree
  Lizzie Stark