Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2019

Winner

• Heavy

  An American Memoir
  Kiese Laymon

Finalists

• The Line Becomes a River

  Dispatches from the Border
  Francisco Cantú
• Dopesick

  Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
  Beth Macy

Longlist

• Fascism

  A Warning
  Madeleine Albright
• Boom Town

  The Fantastical Saga of Oklahoma City, Its Chaotic Founding, Its Apocalyptic Weather, Its Purloined Basketball Team, and the Dream of Becoming a World-Class Metropolis
  Sam Anderson
• High-Risers

  Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
  Ben Austen
• How to Write an Autobiographical Novel
  Alexander Chee
• The Poisoned City

  Flint's Water and the American Urban Tragedy
  Anna Clark
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  A Life
  Jane Sherron De Hart
• There Will Be No Miracles Here
  Casey Gerald
• Tigerland: 1968-1969: A City Divided, a Nation Torn Apart, and a Magical Season of Healing
  Wil Haygood
• In Extremis

  The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin
  Lindsey Hilsum
• The Sun Does Shine

  How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row
  Anthony Ray Hinton and Lara Love Hardin
• The Feather Thief

  Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
  Kirk Wallace Johnson
• The Cost of Living

  A Working Autobiography
  Deborah Levy
• Palaces for the People

  How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life
  Eric Klinenberg
• I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

  One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
  Michelle McNamara
• Burning Down the Haus

  Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
  Tim Mohr
• The Library Book
  Susan Orlean
• Looking for Lorraine

  The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
  Imani Perry
• The Girl Who Smiled Beads

  A Story of War and What Comes After
  Clemantine Wamariya and Elizabeth Weil
• Educated
  Tara Westover