Recommended Reading: Andrew Carnegie Medals for Fiction & Nonfiction
A collection of ALA's literature award winners and various notable reading lists.
Established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year. The winners (one for fiction, one for nonfiction) are announced at an event at the ALA Midwinter Meeting;
- Andrew Carnegie Medals listLinks to the lists of winners, finalists, and read alikes. The Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.
2017 Carnegie Medal Winner - Fiction
Manhattan Beach by
Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.
ISBN: 9781476716749Publication Date: 2018-06-05
2017 Carnegie Medal Winner - Nonfiction
Not Given This Year
Carnegie Medal Finalists - Fiction
Carnegie Medal Finalists - Nonfiction
