Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2021

Winner

• Fathoms

  The World in the Whale
  Rebecca Giggs

Finalists

• Just Us

  An American Conversation
  Claudia Rankine
• Memorial Drive

  A Daughter's Memoir
  Natasha Trethewey

Longlist

• Humankind

  A Hopeful History
  Rutger Bregman
• The Undocumented Americans
  Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
• Eat the Buddha

  Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
  Barbara Demick
• The Beauty in Breaking
  Michele Harper
• The King of Confidence

  A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
  Miles Harvey
• Minor Feelings

  An Asian American Reckoning
  Cathy Park Hong
• Paper Bullets

  Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
  Jeffrey H. Jackson
• Hidden Valley Road

  Inside the Mind of an American Family
  Robert Kolker
• Conditional Citizens

  On Belonging in America
  Laila Lalami
• God's Shadow

  Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
  Alan Mikhail
• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
  Wayétu Moore
• The Dead Are Arising

  The Life of Malcolm X
  Les Payne and Tamara Payne
• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
  Jenn Shapland
• Recollections of My Nonexistence
  Rebecca Solnit
• The Book of Eels

  Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
  Patrik Svensson
• Caste

  The Origins of Our Discontents
  Isabel Wilkerson
• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide

  The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
  Jia Lynn Yang