Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2023

Winner

• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong

Finalists

• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• Vagina Obscura

  An Anatomical Voyage
  Rachel E. Gross

Longlist

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• By Hands Now Known

  Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
  Margaret A. Burnham
• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• The Vortex

  A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
  Scott Carney and Jason Miklian
• The Impossible City

  A Hong Kong Memoir
  Karen Cheung
• Every Good Boy Does Fine

  A Love Story, in Music Lessons
  Jeremy Denk
• The Third Person
  Emma Grove
• Indigenous Continent

  The Epic Contest for North America
  Pekka Hämäläinen
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Paradise Falls

  The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
  Keith O’Brien
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• The Treeline

  The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
  Ben Rawlence
• This Is What It Sounds Like

  What the Music You Love Says About You
  Susan Rogers and Ogi Ogas
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• The Viral Underclass

  The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
  Steven W. Thrasher
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora