Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2017

Winner

• Evicted

  Poverty and Profit in the American City
  Matthew Desmond

Finalists

• The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice
  Patricia Bell-Scott
• Blood at the Root

  A Racial Cleansing in America
  Patrick Phillips

Longlist

• Exiled in America

  Life on the Margins in a Residential Motel
  Christopher P. Dum
• How to Survive a Plague

  The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS
  David France
• White Trash

  The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
  Nancy Isenberg
• Lab Girl
  Hope Jahren
• Eyes On The Street

  The Life Of Jane Jacobs
  Robert Kanigel
• Mad Enchantment

  Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
  Ross King
• Paper

  Paging Through History
  Mark Kurlansky
• Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South
  Beth Macy
• Kill ‘Em and Leave

  Searching for James Brown and the American Soul
  James McBride
• Cast Away

  True Stories of Survival from Europe's Refugee Crisis
  Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
• City of Thorns

  Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
  Ben Rawlence
• Grunt

  The Curious Science of Humans at War
  Mary Roach
• The Revenge of Analog

  Real Things and Why They Matter
  David Sax
• Hidden Figures

  The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
  Margot Lee Shetterly
• The Glass Universe

  How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
  Dava Sobel
• Of Arms and Artists

  The American Revolution Through Painters' Eyes
  Paul Staiti
• Writing to Save a Life

  The Louis Till File
  John Edgar Wideman
• The Hour of Land

  A Personal Topography of America's National Parks
  Terry Tempest Williams
• The Dragon Behind the Glass

  A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World's Most Coveted Fish
  Emily Voigt
• Another Day in the Death of America

  A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives
  Gary Younge