The Carnegie award finalists have been chosen for this year by the ALA and its associates from the book world. Further information on the award itself may be found here.
The winners for excellence in fiction are:
Viet Thanh Nguyen. The Sympathizer. published by Grove Press
Jim Shepard. The Book of Aron. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House.
Hanya Yanagihara. A Little Life. Published by Doubleday, Penguin Random House.
The winners for excellence in non-fiction are:
*Helen Macdonald. H is for Hawk. Published by Grove Press.
*Sally Mann. Hold Still Published by Little, Brown, and Company, Hachette Book Group.
Andrea Wulf. The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House.
*Titles owned by the library
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