Year-End Lists

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence: Nonfiction 2026

Winner

• Things in Nature Merely Grow
  Yiyun Li

Finalists

• Baldwin, Styron, and Me
  Mélikah Abdelmoumen
• There Is No Place for Us

  Working and Homeless in America
  Brian Goldstone

Longlist

• The Martians

  The True Story of an Alien Craze that Captured Turn-of-the-Century America
  David Baron
• Without Fear

  Black Women and the Making of Human Rights
  Keisha N. Blain
• Baldwin

  A Love Story
  Nicholas Boggs
• Cults Like Us

  Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
  Jane Borden
• Claire McCardell

  The Designer Who Set Women Free
  Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
• One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
  Omar El Akkad
• A Marriage at Sea

  A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck
  Sophie Elmhirst
• Original Sins

  The (Mis)education of Black and Native Children and the Construction of American Racism
  Eve L. Ewing
• Murderland

  Crime and Bloodlust in the Time of Serial Killers
  Caroline Fraser
• America, América

  A New History of the New World
  Greg Grandin
• Access

  Inside the Abortion Underground and the Sixty-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom
  Rebecca Grant
• The Insider

  Malcolm Cowley and the Triumph of American Literature
  Gerald Howard
• Misbehaving at the Crossroads

  Essays & Writings
  Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
• We the People

  A History of the U.S. Constitution
  Jill Lepore
• Is a River Alive?
  Robert Macfarlane
• Ghosts of Hiroshima
  Charles Pellegrino
• Medicine River

  A Story of Survival and the Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools
  Mary Annette Pember
• Exophony

  Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue
  Yoko Tawada
• Spell Freedom

  The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement
  Elaine Weiss
• We Tell Ourselves Stories

  Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine
  Alissa Wilkinson
• Toni at Random

  The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship
  Dana A. Williams