Longlist 2015 - Nonfiction

2015 Longlist - Nonfiction

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Ackerman, Diane. The Human Age: The World Shaped by Us. (Norton)

Birmingham, Kevin. The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle for James Joyce’s Ulysses. (Penguin).

Blum, Howard. Dark Invasion: 1915; Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America. (Harper)

Bragg, Rick. Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story. (Harper)

Davis, Joshua. Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream. (Farrar)

Eig, Jonathan. The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. (Norton)

Greenwald, Glenn. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. (Holt)

Hobbs, Jeff. The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League.(Scribner)

Isaacson, Walter. The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution.(Simon & Schuster)

Jager, Eric. Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris. (Little, Brown)

Kaplan, Fred. John Quincy Adams: American Visionary. (Harper)

Kolbert, Elizabeth. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History.(Holt)

Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman. (Knopf)

Macy, Beth. Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local—and Helped Save an American Town.(Little, Brown)

Schama, Simon. The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words, 1000 BC–1492 AD. (Ecco)

Sides, Hampton. In the Kingdom of Ice: The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeanette. (Doubleday)

Stark, Lizzie. Pandora’s DNA: Tracing the Breast Cancer Genes through History, Science, and One Family Tree. (Chicago Review)

Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. (Spiegel & Grau)

Wright, Lawrence. Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David. (Knopf)

Awards Won

Title Year
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Gold round Medal depicting a winged horse) Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction

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The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction were established in 2012 to recognize the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. the previous year.

2015 - Selection(s)