Here are the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal shortlists

The 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence shortlist has been revealed.

From forty-five novels and nonfiction books, we now have the contenders for the main prize, to be announced January 23.

The $5,000 prize honors the best in its category published in the prior year.

Fiction

• The Five Wounds, by Kirstin Valdez Quade

• Matrix, by Lauren Groff

• The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, by Tom Lin

Nonfiction 

• Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619–2019, by Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain

• A Little Devil In America: In Praise of Black Performance, by Hanif Abdurraqib

• Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness, by Kristen Radtke 

Related posts 

• Congrats to the 2021 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence winners! 

• Meet the Carnegie Medal recipients and PEN America Literary Awards nominees