Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

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2018
Fiction: Manhattan Beach : a novel by Jennifer Egan
Nonfiction: No winner

2017
Fiction: The underground railroad : a novel by Colson Whitehead
Nonfiction: Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city by Matthew Desmond

2016
Fiction: The sympathizer by Viet Thanh
Nonfiction: Hold still : a memoir with photographs by Sally Mann

2015
Fiction: All the light we cannot see : a novel by Anthony Doerr
Nonfiction: Just mercy : a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson

2014
Fiction: The goldfinch by Donna Tartt
Nonfiction: The bully pulpit : Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

2013
Fiction: Canada by Richard Ford
Nonfiction: Short nights of the Shadow Catcher : the epic life and immortal photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan

2012
Fiction: The forgotten waltz by Anne Enright
Nonfiction: Catherine the Great : portrait of a woman by Robert K. Massie