Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2016

Winner

• Hold Still

  A Memoir with Photographs
  Sally Mann

Finalists

• H Is for Hawk
  Helen Macdonald
• The Invention of Nature

  Alexander von Humboldt’s New World
  Andrea Wulf

Longlist

• American Reckoning

  The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
  Christian G. Appy
• Give Us the Ballot

  The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
  Ari Berman
• Thieves of State

  Why Corruption Threatens Global Security
  Sarah Chayes
• Between the World and Me
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Age of Acquiescence

  The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
  Steve Fraser
• Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County

  A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
  Kristen Green
• Showdown

  Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
  Wil Haygood
• Listening to Stone

  The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
  Hayden Herrera
• Do No Harm

  Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery
  Henry Marsh
• How the World Moves

  The Odyssey of an American Indian Family
  Peter Nabokov
• Empire of Self

  A Life of Gore Vidal
  Jay Parini
• On the Move

  A Life
  Oliver Sacks
• Beyond Words

  What Animals Think and Feel
  Carl Safina
• The Witches

  Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
  Stacy Schiff
• M Train
  Patti Smith
• To Explain the World

  The Discovery of Modern Science
  Steven Weinberg
• Pacific

  Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
  Simon Winchester