Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2022

Winner

• A Little Devil in America

  Notes in Praise of Black Performance
  Hanif Abdurraqib

Finalists

• Four Hundred Souls

  A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
  Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain (editors)
• Seek You

  A Journey Through American Loneliness
  Kristen Radtke

Longlist

• Facing the Mountain

  A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
  Daniel James Brown
• The Secret History of Home Economics

  How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
  Danielle Dreilinger
• The Glitter in the Green

  In Search of Hummingbirds
  Jon Dunn
• The Ground Breaking

  An American City and Its Search for Justice
  Scott Ellsworth
• Why Peacocks?

  An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird
  Sean Flynn
• The Anthropocene Reviewed

  Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
  John Green
• Poet Warrior
  Joy Harjo
• My Broken Language
  Quiara Alegría Hudes
• The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream

  The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
  Dean Jobb
• Empire of Pain

  The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
  Patrick Radden Keefe
• Under a White Sky

  The Nature of the Future
  Elizabeth Kolbert
• Tom Stoppard

  A Life
  Hermione Lee
• Mother of Invention

  How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
  Katrine Marçal
• The Sum of Us

  What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
  Heather McGhee
• A Most Remarkable Creature

  The Hidden Life and Epic Journey of the World's Smartest Birds of Prey
  Jonathan Meiburg
• The Least of Us

  True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
  Sam Quinones
• Chasing Me to My Grave

  An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
  Winfred Rembert
• Fuzz

  When Nature Breaks the Law
  Mary Roach
• Smile

  The Story of a Face
  Sarah Ruhl