The 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction Announced!


Looking for some good reading in 2013? Confused about what to read? Need Book Club suggestions?

Well, Check out the Carnegie Medal Awards Longlist here:  2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. 


Here is a preview of the list, for the full list visit the ALA website HERE:

FICTION

Chabon, Michael. Telegraph Avenue. (Harper)

 Groff, Lauren. Arcadia. (Hyperion/Voice)

 Kingsolver, Barbara. Flight Behavior. (Harper)

 Morrison, Toni. Home. (Knopf)

 Theroux, Paul. The Lower River. (Houghton)

NONFICTION

Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. (Random House)

Holt, Jim. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story. (Norton/Liveright)

Ingrassia, Paul. Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars. (Simon & Schuster)

Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. (Random House)

Winterson, Jeanette. Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove/Atlantic)


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Courtesy

  of American Library Association website: http://www.ala.org/