Here are the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal longlists

Congratulations to the forty-six authors on the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence longlist!

The twenty-six novels and twenty nonfiction books will each be whittled down to a six-book shortlist on November 17, with one winner from each category being announced February 4.

The prize honors the best in its category published in the prior year.

Fiction

• Red Dress in Black and White, by Eliot Ackerman.

• Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar.

• The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett.

• Parakeet, by Marie-Helene Bertino.

• The Night Watchman, by Louise Erdrich.

• Crooked Hallelujah, by Kelli Jo Ford.

• Transcendent Kingdom, by Yaa Gyasi.

• Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino, by Julián Herbert.

• Pew, by Catherine Lacey.

• Luster, by Raven Leilani.

• The Glass Hotel, by Emily St. John Mandel.

• Deacon King Kong, by James McBride.

• Apeirogon, by Colum McCann.

• Hurricane Season, by Fernanda Melchor.

• Utopia Avenue, by David Mitchell.

• Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell.

• Weather, by Jenny Offill.

• Echo on the Bay, by Masatsugu Ono.

• Jack, by Marilynne Robinson.

• A Burning, by Megha Majumdar.

• Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart.

• Here We Are, by Graham Swift.

• The Last Great Road Bum, by Héctor Tobar.

• Run Me to Earth, by Paul Yoon.

• Interior Chinatown, by Charles Yu.

• Memorial, by Bryan Washington. 

Nonfiction 

• Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman.

• The Undocumented Americans, by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio.

• Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town, by Barbara Demick.

• Fathoms: The World in the Whale, by Rebecca Giggs.

• The Beauty in Breaking, by Michele Harper.

• The King of Confidence, by Miles Harvey.

• Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong.

• Paper Bullets, by Jeffrey H. Jackson.

• Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker.

• Conditional Citizens, by Laila Lalami.

• God’s Shadow, by Alan Mikhail.

• The Dragons, the Giant, the Women, by Wayétu Moore.

• The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, by Les and Tamara Payne.

• Just Us: An American Conversation, by Claudia Rankine.

• My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, by Jenn Shapland.

• Recollections of My Nonexistence, by Rebecca Solnit.

• The Book of Eels, by Patrick Svensson.

• Memorial Drive, by Natasha Trethewey.

• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, by Isabel Wilkerson.

• One Mighty and Irresistible Tide, by Jia Lynn Yang.