Carnegie Medal: Nonfiction 2024 - Year-End Lists

Carnegie Medal: Nonfiction 2024

20 January 2024

We Were Once a Family - Roxanna Asgarian

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2024

Winner

We Were Once a Family
A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America

Roxanna Asgarian

Finalists

Longlist

The New Guys
The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel

Meredith Bagby
He/She/They
How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters

Schuyler Bailar
The Burning of the World
The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City's Soul

Scott W. Berg
Better Living Through Birding
Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World

Christian Cooper
Poverty, by America

Matthew Desmond
A Fever in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them

Timothy Egan
Airplane Mode
An Irreverent History of Travel

Shahnaz Habib
Okinawa

Susumu Higa
An Amerikan Family
The Shakurs and the Nation They Created

Santi Elijah Holley
The Country of the Blind
A Memoir at the End of Sight

Andrew Leland
American Whitelash
A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress

Wesley Lowery
A Man of Two Faces
a Memoir, a History, a Memorial

Viet Thanh Nguyen
The People's Hospital
Hope and Peril in American Medicine

Ricardo Nuila
A Darker Wilderness
Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars

Erin Sharkey
Brave the Wild River
The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon

Melissa L. Sevigny
The 272
The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church

Rachel L. Swarns
Our Migrant Souls
A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino”

Héctor Tobar
Wonder Drug
The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and Its Hidden Victims

Jennifer Vanderbes
Project 562
Changing the Way We See Native America

Matika Wilbur
The Riders Come Out at Night
Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-up in Oakland

Ali Winston and Darwin BondGraham
Master Slave Husband Wife
An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom

Ilyon Woo