The winners of the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Awards were announced last week🎉
🥇Nonfiction: THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li (Macmillan Publishers)
🥇Fiction: A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar
Read about both winners here: bit.ly/46gpBfU
#Booklist #ALACarnegieAwards
Graphic showing 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiiction winners: THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li and A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar
ICYMI: The winners of the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Awards were announced last week🎉📚🤓
🥇Nonfiction: THINGS IN NATURE MERELY GROW by Yiyun Li (@macmillanlib.bsky.social)
🥇Fiction: A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF by Megha Majumdar (@prhlibrary.bsky.social)
Read about both winners here: bit.ly/46gpBfU
We are honored to announce the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie winners:
🥇#Nonfiction: Yiyun Li, THINGS IN NATURE MERLY GROW
🥇#Fiction: Megha Majumdar, A GUARDIAN AND A THIEF
Congratulations to our winners and publishers, @macmillanlib.bsky.social and @prhlibrary.bsky.social🎉
Read more: https://bit.ly/46gpBfU
“Satirical, incisive and convincing horror that skewers religious fervor and blind obedience.”
The Unworthy is shortlisted for the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction! Congratulations, Agustina Bazterrica! 🎉
Read more about it and the other finalists here: https://bit.ly/49imLth
Congratulations to the finalists for the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. Winners announced January 27! Book covers: “A Guardian and a Thief,” by Megha Majumdar. “The Unworthy,” by Agustina Bazterrica. Translated by Sarah Moses. “We Do Not Part,” By Han Kang. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. “Baldwin, Styron, and Me,” by Mélikah Abdelmoumen. Translated by Catherine Khordoc. “There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America,” by Brian Goldstone. “Things in Nature Merely Grow,” by Yiyun Li.
We are honored to share this year's #ALA_Carnegie shortlist titles! Join us in celebrating these six books which exemplify excellence in fiction and nonfiction.
Two winners will be announced January 27. Congratulations!
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https://www.ala.org/carnegie-medals/2026-winners
The cover of "Baldwin, Styron, and Me" by Melikah Abdelmoumen (translated by Catherine Khordoc) on a blue background of the Carnegie Medal logo, announcing the 2026 shortlist selection for Nonfiction. Winners announced January 27!
In fantastic awards news: BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is a finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! Huge congrats to Mélikah and Catherine 🎉
Best of luck to this little book as we wait for the winners announcement on January 27. #ALA_Carnegie
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Image of the 2026 Carnegie finalist medals with text: ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDALS FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION AND NONFICTION. Winners announced January 27
We are honored to share this year's #ALA_Carnegie shortlist titles! Join us in celebrating these six books which exemplify excellence in fiction and nonfiction and mark your calendars for January 27 when both winners will be announced. Congratulations!🎉➡️ www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue, by Yoko Tawada (Translated by Lisa Hoffman-Kuroda), is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! @ndbooks.bsky.social #ala_carnegie Learn more about our longlisted titles here: www.edelweiss.plus#catalogID=52...
Feature image showing the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Fiction and Nonfiction longlist with image of both medals and text: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 18!
ICYMI: The 2026 #ALA_Carnegie longlist is here! Check out these stunning 45 titles (21 fiction, 24 nonfiction) that are must-reads for any TBR: www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Stay tuned for the shortlist announcement coming November 18!📆🎉
We the People, by Jill Lepore, is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! This is a stunning new history of the U.S. Constitution, for a troubling new era. #ala_carnegie More info on this title: www.edelweiss.plus?sku=16314960...
We Tell Ourselves Stories: Joan Didion and the American Dream Machine, by Alissa Wilkinson, is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! #ala_carnegie @liveright.bsky.social Learn more about all our books on the longlist here: www.edelweiss.plus#catalogID=52...
IS A RIVER ALIVE?, by Robert Macfarlane, is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction! #ala_carnegie More info on the titles here: www.edelweiss.plus#catalogID=52...
We're thrilled to share that COLONY by Annika Norlin has been longlisted for the 2026 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction: www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
#ALA_Carnegie @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social
We are thrilled The Unworthy, Flesh, and Tilt are on the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction list! Congratulations Agustina Bazterrica, David Szalay, and @emmalincolnblog!
Graphic of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2026 longlist selection, featuring the cover of "Baldwin, Styron, and Me" by Mélikah Abdelmoumen (translated by Catherine Khordoc) on a light blue background framed in black. The Carnegie medal, and logos for RUSA, ALA, and Booklist in white at the bottom.
Thrilled to share that BALDWIN, STYRON, AND ME is on the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction!
Cheers to Mélikah, and her translator Catherine, and best of luck for the shortlist announcement on Nov 18.
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Feature image showing the 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Fiction and Nonfiction longlist with image of both medals and text: SHORTLIST ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 18!
[drumroll] 🥁We are thrilled to share the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction longlist. Join us in celebrating these stunning 45 titles--21 fiction and 24 nonfiction. 🎉📚
Stay tuned for the shortlist announcement coming November 18!▶️ www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction 2026 Longlist. Shortlist announced November 18! RUSA, American Library Association, Booklist
Attention library workers, booksellers, and readers! We are thrilled to share the longlist for the 2026 #ALA_Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction! Join us in celebrating these 45 titles and keep an eye out for the shortlist coming 11/18.
www.ala.org/carnegie-med...
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Very few people saw Guernica, but it changed the world. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Impressed and encouraged by the L.A. Dodgers, those who stand in the way of taking people away. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Talking about the seriousness of the moment. The first thing fascists do is burn books. The most subversive thing we can do is read. The second most subversive is be in a book club. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
"Let's not get the wrong idea. We're very few. This is not a reading culture." Librarians are on the front line of trying to change that. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Talking about the librarian who gave him free range of the university library stacks as a child. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
"There's not a lot of pressure on me. Thanks, Kevin." #ALAAC25 #ALA_CARNEGIE
Next, Percival Everett. #ALA_CARNEGIE #ALAAC25
Then he pulled out three copies of James he's hoping Percival Everett will sign that he's going to give to a librarian from a small library on the Grand Canyon along with another copy of his own book she asked for. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
"I don't write books that change people's lives. The author who does that is the one who is sitting over there and going to speak after me." #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Entered first writing contest as a boy because the prize was two weeks horse riding and backpackin in the Tetons. He won 5th, which was 5 days of bird watching in WV. ##ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Talking about his home Carnegie library as a child. #ALAAC25 #ALA_CARNEGIE
Next Kevin Fedarko, author of A Walk in the Park #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
Now talking about libraries' history of protecting their patrons, considering our current situation in relation to the PATRIOT Act. #ALAAC25 #ALA_Carnegie
