2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the longlist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence for “the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year” with 22 fiction titles and 21 non-fiction. The fiction longlist includes the following titles and authors of genre interest:
- Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield (Flatiron)
- The School for Good Mothers, Jessamine Chan (S&S)
- The Candy House, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
- Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
- What We Fed to the Manticore, Talia Lakshmi Kolluri (Tin House)
- The Book of Goose, Yiyun Li (Farrar, Straus, Giroux)
- Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
- The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy (Knopf)
- How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (Morrow)
The six-title shortlist will be announced on November 15, 2022, and the two medal winners on January 29, 2023. Winners will be honored during the 2023 ALA Annual Conference in June 2023 in Chicago IL. Winners receive $5,000 and a medal.
For more information, including the entire longlist, see the ALA website.
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