Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winners Fiction

Awards List

2023

The Swimmers (Winner)
Julie Otsuka

Feb-2022
/ Literary

Greenland (Finalist)
David Santos-Donaldson

Jun-2022
/ Psychological Suspense

Night of the Living Rez: Stories (Finalist)
Morgan Talty

Jul-2022
/ General Fiction

2022

The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu (Winner)
Tom Lin

Jun-2021
/ Historical

The Five Wounds (Finalist)
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Apr-2021
/ General Fiction

Matrix (Finalist)
Lauren Groff

Sep-2021
/ Women's Fiction

2021

Deacon King Kong (Winner)
James McBride

Mar-2020
/ General Fiction

A Burning (Finalist)
Megha Majumdar

Jun-2020
/ Literary

Homeland Elegies (Finalist)
Ayad Akhtar

Sep-2020
/ General Fiction

2020

Lost Children Archive (Winner)
Valeria Luiselli

Feb-2019
/ Literary

Feast Your Eyes (Finalist)
Myla Goldberg

Apr-2019
/ Literary

The Water Dancer (Finalist)
Ta-Nehisi Coates

Sep-2019
/ Literary

2019

The Great Believers (Winner)
Rebecca Makkai

Jun-2018
/ Literary

There There (Finalist)
Tommy Orange

Jun-2018
/ Literary

Washington Black (Finalist)
Esi Edugyan

Sep-2018
/ Action Adventure

2018

Manhattan Beach (Winner)
Jennifer Egan

Oct-2017
/ Historical

Lincoln in the Bardo (Finalist)
George Saunders

Feb-2017
/ Science Fiction

Sing, Unburied, Sing (Finalist)
Jesmyn Ward

Sep-2017
/ Fantasy

2017

The Underground Railroad (Winner)
Colson Whitehead

Sep-2016
/ Historical

Moonglow (Finalist)
Michael Chabon

Nov-2016
/ Literary

Swing Time (Finalist)
Zadie Smith

Nov-2016
/ Literary

2016

The Sympathizer (Winner)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Apr-2015
/ Literary

A Little Life (Finalist)
Hanya Yanagihara

Mar-2015
/ Literary

The Sympathizer (Finalist)
Viet Thanh Nguyen

Apr-2015
/ Literary

The Book of Aron (Finalist)
Jim Shepard

May-2015
/ Literary

2015

All the Light We Cannot See (Winner)
Anthony Doerr

May-2014
/ Historical

On Such a Full Sea (Finalist)
Chang-Rae Lee

Jan-2014
/ General Fiction

All the Light We Cannot See (Finalist)
Anthony Doerr

May-2014
/ Historical

Nora Webster (Finalist)
Colm Toibin

Oct-2014
/ Literary

2014

The Goldfinch (Winner)
Donna Tartt

Oct-2013
/ Literary

Americanah (Finalist)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

May-2013
/ Literary

Claire of the Sea Light (Finalist)
Edwidge Danticat

Sep-2013
/ General Fiction

2013

Canada (Winner)
Richard Ford

Jun-2012
/ General Fiction

This Is How You Lose Her (Finalist)
Junot Diaz

Sep-2012
/ General Fiction

The Round House (Finalist)
Louise Erdrich

Oct-2012
/ General Fiction

2012

The Forgotten Waltz (Winner)
Anne Enright

Oct-2011
/ Literary

Swamplandia! (Finalist)
Karen Russell

Feb-2011
/ General Fiction

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Fiction

Award Years