2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Shortlists
The American Library Association (ALA) has announced the shortlists for the 2025 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 three fiction and three non-fiction titles.
The fiction shortlist includes James by occasional SF writer Percival Everett (Knopf). The non-fiction list includes Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham(Avid Reader), about the 1986 space shuttle tragedy.
The 2025 selection committee chair Allison Escoto will announce the two medal winners at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards livestreaming event, premiered during LibLearnX in Phoenix AZ on January 26, 2025. Winners receive $5,000 and a medal.
For more information, including the complete shortlists, see the ALA website.
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