Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Fiction 2026

Winner

• A Guardian and a Thief
  Megha Majumdar

Finalists

• The Unworthy
  Agustina Bazterrica
• We Do Not Part
  Han Kang

Longlist

• Flashlight
  Susan Choi
• The Correspondent
  Virginia Evans
• Great Black Hope
  Rob Franklin
• Hunchback
  Saou Ichikawa
• The Sisters
  Jonas Hassen Khemiri
• The Names
  Florence Knapp
• Wild Dark Shore
  Charlotte McConaghy
• What We Can Know
  Ian McEwan
• These Heathens
  Mia McKenzie
• People Like Us
  Jason Mott
• The Girls Who Grew Big
  Leila Mottley
• The Colony
  Annika Norlin
• Tilt
  Emma Pattee
• The Imagined Life
  Andrew Porter
• Terrestrial History
  Joe Mungo Reed
• Flesh
  David Szalay
• The Emperor of Gladness
  Ocean Vuong
• Good Dirt
  Charmaine Wilkerson