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Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

American Library Association (ALA) - Reference and User Services Association (RUSA)

An annual award presented by the ALA/RUSA to the best fiction book for adult readers published in the United States in the preceding year, established in 2012 alongside a companion medal for nonfiction and judged by a committee of librarians.

Search through 6,630 awarded or nominated books

2026

  1. A Guardian and a Thief

    Megha Majumdar

    Won
  2. The Unworthy

    Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses

    Shortlisted
  3. We Do Not Part

    Han Kang, translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris

    Shortlisted

2025

  1. James

    Percival Everett

    Won
  2. Cinema Love

    Jiaming Tang

    Shortlisted
  3. Martyr!

    Kaveh Akbar

    Shortlisted

2024

  1. The Berry Pickers

    Amanda Peters

    Won
  2. Denison Avenue

    Christina Wong and Daniel Innes

    Shortlisted
  3. Let Us Descend

    Jesmyn Ward

    Shortlisted

2023

  1. The Swimmers

    Julie Otsuka

    Won
  2. Greenland

    David Santos Donaldson

    Shortlisted
  3. Night of the Living Rez

    Morgan Talty

    Shortlisted

2022

  1. The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

    Tom Lin

    Won
  2. Matrix

    Lauren Groff

    Shortlisted
  3. The Five Wounds

    Kirstin Valdez Quade

    Shortlisted

2021

  1. Deacon King Kong

    James McBride

    Won
  2. A Burning

    Megha Majumdar

    Shortlisted
  3. Homeland Elegies

    Ayad Akhtar

    Shortlisted

2020

  1. Lost Children Archive

    Valeria Luiselli

    Won
  2. Feast Your Eyes

    Myla Goldberg

    Shortlisted
  3. The Water Dancer

    Ta-Nehisi Coates

    Shortlisted

2019

  1. The Great Believers

    Rebecca Makkai

    Won
  2. There There

    Tommy Orange

    Shortlisted
  3. Washington Black

    Esi Edugyan

    Shortlisted

2018

  1. Manhattan Beach

    Jennifer Egan

    Won
  2. Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders

    Shortlisted
  3. Sing, Unburied, Sing

    Jesmyn Ward

    Shortlisted

2017

  1. The Underground Railroad

    Colson Whitehead

    Won
  2. Moonglow

    Michael Chabon

    Shortlisted
  3. Swing Time

    Zadie Smith

    Shortlisted

2016

  1. The Sympathizer

    Viet Thanh Nguyen

    Won
  2. A Little Life

    Hanya Yanagihara

    Shortlisted
  3. The Book of Aron

    Jim Shepard

    Shortlisted

2015

  1. All the Light We Cannot See

    Anthony Doerr

    Won
  2. Nora Webster

    Colm Tóibín

    Shortlisted
  3. On Such a Full Sea

    Chang-Rae Lee

    Shortlisted

2014

  1. The Goldfinch

    Donna Tartt

    Won
  2. Americanah

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Shortlisted
  3. Claire of the Sea Light

    Edwidge Danticat

    Shortlisted

2013

  1. Canada

    Richard Ford

    Won
  2. The Round House

    Louise Erdrich

    Shortlisted
  3. This Is How You Lose Her

    Junot Díaz

    Shortlisted

2012

  1. The Forgotten Waltz

    Anne Enright

    Won
  2. Lost Memory of Skin

    Russell Banks

    Shortlisted
  3. Swamplandia!

    Karen Russell

    Shortlisted