Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2018. No medal was awarded in 2018.

Finalists

• You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
  Sherman Alexie
• The Doomsday Machine

  Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner
  Daniel Ellsberg
• Killers of the Flower Moon

  The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
  David Grann

Longlist

• Hue 1968

  A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
  Mark Bowden
• Grant
  Ron Chernow
• We Were Eight Years in Power

  An American Tragedy
  Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Gulf

  The Making of An American Sea
  Jack E. Davis
• True South

  Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
  Jon Else
• Richard Nixon

  The Life
  John A. Farrell
• Locking Up Our Own

  Crime and Punishment in Black America
  James Forman Jr.
• Hunger

  A Memoir of (My) Body
  Roxane Gay
• The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve

  The Story That Created Us
  Stephen Greenblatt
• Leonardo da Vinci
  Walter Isaacson
• Black Edge

  Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street
  Sheelah Kolhatkar
• We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

  Voices from Syria
  Wendy Pearlman
• Theft by Finding

  Diaries (1977-2002)
  David Sedaris
• Where the Past Begins

  A Writer's Memoir
  Amy Tan
• Gorbachev

  His Life and Times
  William Taubman
• The Vaccine Race

  Science, Politics, and the Human Costs of Defeating Disease
  Meredith Wadman
• The Best Land Under Heaven

  The Donner Party in the Age of Manifest Destiny
  Michael Wallis
• Bunk

  The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News
  Kevin Young