Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2020

Winner

• Midnight in Chernobyl

  The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
  Adam Higginbotham

Finalists

• Figuring
  Maria Popova
• The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

  Native America from 1890 to the Present
  David Treuer

Longlist

• Places and Names

  On War, Revolution, and Returning
  Elliot Ackerman
• Silver, Sword, and Stone

  Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
  Marie Arana
• Elderhood

  Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
  Louise Aronson
• American Moonshot

  John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
  Douglas Brinkley
• The Yellow House
  Sarah M. Broom
• Furious Hours

  Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee
  Casey Cep
• Parkland

  Birth of a Movement
  Dave Cullen
• Mama's Last Hug

  Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
  Frans de Waal
• What You Have Heard Is True

  A Memoir of Witness and Resistance
  Carolyn Forché
• Janis

  Her Life and Music
  Holly George-Warren
• The Ice at the End of the World

  An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
  Jon Gertner
• Becoming Dr. Seuss

  Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
  Brian Jay Jones
• Say Nothing

  A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• An American Summer

  Love and Death in Chicago
  Alex Kotlowitz
• Underland

  A Deep Time Journey
  Robert Macfarlane
• In the Dream House
  Carmen Maria Machado
• The Source of Self-Regard

  Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
  Toni Morrison
• Invisible Women

  Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
  Caroline Criado Perez
• Losing Earth

  A Recent History
  Nathaniel Rich
• In the Country of Women
  Susan Straight
• The Outlaw Ocean

  Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
  Ian Urbina
• The Uninhabitable Earth

  Life After Warming
  David Wallace-Wells