Forty-three books (22 fiction, 21 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced on November 15, 2022. The two medal winners will be announced by 2023 selection committee chair Stephen Sposato at the Reference and User Services Association’s Book and Media Awards live streaming event, during LibLearnX on Sunday, January 29th at 4:30 p.m. CT. The celebratory event, including presentations by the winners and a featured speaker, will take place at the 2023 ALA Annual Conference in June 2023 in Chicago.

Carnegie Medal winners will each receive $5,000.

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Armfield, Julia. Our Wives Under the Sea. (Flatiron)

Bhanoo, Sindya. Seeking Fortune Elsewhere.. (Catapult)

Chan, Jessamine. The School for Good Mothers. (Simon & Schuster)

Diaz, Hernan. Trust. (Riverhead Books)

Donaldson, David Santos. Greenland. (Amistad)

Egan, Jennifer. The Candy House. (Scribner)

Escoffery, Jonathan. If I Survive You. (MCD BOOKS)

Hokeah, Oscar. Calling for a Blanket Dance. (Algonquin)

Holleran, Andrew. The Kingdom of Sand. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Kingsolver, Barbara. Demon Copperhead. (Harper)

Kolluri, Talia Lakshmi. What We Fed to the Manticore. (Tin House)

Li, Yiyun. The Book of Goose. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

Mandel, Emily St. John. Sea of Tranquility. (Knopf)

McCarthy, Cormac. The Passenger. (Knopf)

Nagamatsu, Sequoia. How High We Go in the Dark. (William Morrow)

O'Farrell, Maggie. The Marriage Portrait. (Knopf)

Otsuka, Julie. The Swimmers. (Knopf)

Stuart, Douglas. Young Mungo. (Grove)

Talty, Morgan. Night of the Living Rez. (Tin House)

Wang, Weike. Joan is Okay. (Random House)

Warrell, Laura. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm. (Pantheon)

Zhang, Jenny Tinghui. Four Treasures of the Sky.  (Flatiron)

Beaton, Kate. Ducks: Two Years on the Oil Sands. (Drawn & Quarterly)

Burnham, Margaret A. By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners. (Norton)

Calhoun, Ada. Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me. (Grove)

Carney, Scott and Jason Miklian. Vortex: A True Story of History's Deadliest Storm, an Unspeakable War, and Liberation. (Ecco)

Cheung, Karen. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir. (Random House)

Denk, Jeremy. Every Good Boy Does Fine: A Love Story, in Music Lessons. (Random House)

Gross, Rachel E. Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Journey. (Norton)

Grove, Emma. The Third Person. (Drawn & Quarterly)

Hämäläinen, Pekka. Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America. (Liveright)

Hsu, Hua. Stay True. (Doubleday)

Jefferson, Margo. Constructing a Nervous System. (Pantheon)  

O'Brien, Keith. Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. (Pantheon)

O'Rourke, Meghan. The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness. (Riverhead Books)

Rawlence, Ben. The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth. (St. Martin's) 

Rogers, Susan and Ogi Ogas. This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You. (Norton)

Rojas Contreras, Ingrid. The Man Who Could Move Clouds. (Doubleday)

Schulz, Kathryn. Lost & Found. (Random House)

Thrasher, Steven. The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide. (Celadon)

Williamson, Elizabeth. Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth. (Dutton)

Yong, Ed. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us. (Random House)