
Award collection
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
98 recognized books, each paired with conversations featuring the author.

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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Mother of Invention: How Good Ideas Get Ignored in an Economy Built for Men
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A Memoir
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Paper Bullets: Two Women Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
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The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses
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The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
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An American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago
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The Vortex: A True Story of History’s Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation
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The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men
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The Dragons, the Giant, the Women
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Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness
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Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth
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God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
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Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
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Brave the Wild River: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped the Botany of the Grand Canyon
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Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
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The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church
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The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight
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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
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Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir
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Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons
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Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe
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The Great Displacement: Climate Change and the Next American Migration
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The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
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The New Guys: The Historic Class of Astronauts That Broke Barriers and Changed the Face of Space Travel
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The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
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This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You
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A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
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Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South
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Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
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Facing the Mountain: A True Story of Japanese American Heroes in World War II
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The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream: The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer
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The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
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Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
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Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
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Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
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Silver, Sword, and Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
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The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland’s Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
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The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
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Elderhood: Redefining Aging, Transforming Medicine, Reimagining Life
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars
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White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America
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Cast Away: True Stories of Survival from Europe’s Refugee Crisis
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The Witches: Suspicion, Betrayal, and Hysteria in 1692 Salem
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Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
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Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators and Fading Empires
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The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
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Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
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