Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist 2021

1.
Transcendent Kingdom
Transcendent Kingdom
by: Yaa Gyasi
4.10 avg rating — 158,659 ratings
2.
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family 4.15 avg rating — 139,647 ratings
3.
Just Us: An American Conversation
Just Us: An American Conversation 4.34 avg rating — 4,189 ratings
4.
Red Dress in Black & White
Red Dress in Black & White 3.54 avg rating — 616 ratings
5.
Homeland Elegies
Homeland Elegies 4.13 avg rating — 24,289 ratings
6.
The Vanishing Half
The Vanishing Half 4.13 avg rating — 831,879 ratings
7.
Parakeet
Parakeet 3.66 avg rating — 3,779 ratings
8.
The Night Watchman
The Night Watchman 4.09 avg rating — 87,979 ratings
9.
Crooked Hallelujah
Crooked Hallelujah 3.48 avg rating — 3,387 ratings
10.
Pew
Pew 3.70 avg rating — 12,544 ratings
11.
Luster
Luster 3.51 avg rating — 107,816 ratings
12.
The Glass Hotel
The Glass Hotel 3.69 avg rating — 190,453 ratings
13.
Deacon King Kong
Deacon King Kong 4.17 avg rating — 78,012 ratings
14.
Apeirogon
Apeirogon 4.25 avg rating — 25,714 ratings
15.
Hurricane Season
Hurricane Season 4.05 avg rating — 43,040 ratings
16.
Utopia Avenue
Utopia Avenue really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 26,249 ratings
17.
Hamnet
Hamnet 4.19 avg rating — 311,009 ratings
18.
Weather
Weather 3.54 avg rating — 38,764 ratings
19.
Echo on the Bay
Echo on the Bay 3.44 avg rating — 250 ratings
20.
Jack (Gilead, #4)
Jack (Gilead, #4) 3.86 avg rating — 9,832 ratings
21.
Shuggie Bain
Shuggie Bain 4.30 avg rating — 181,023 ratings
22.
Here We Are
Here We Are 3.44 avg rating — 4,300 ratings
23.
The Last Great Road Bum
The Last Great Road Bum 3.64 avg rating — 607 ratings
24.
Run Me to Earth
Run Me to Earth
by: Paul Yoon
3.68 avg rating — 3,527 ratings
25.
Interior Chinatown
Interior Chinatown 3.95 avg rating — 69,012 ratings
26.
Memorial
Memorial 3.57 avg rating — 37,151 ratings
27.
A Burning
A Burning 3.72 avg rating — 52,152 ratings
28.
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Humankind: A Hopeful History 4.32 avg rating — 75,177 ratings
29.
The Undocumented Americans
The Undocumented Americans 4.38 avg rating — 25,069 ratings
30.
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town 4.15 avg rating — 6,617 ratings
31.
Fathoms: The World in the Whale
Fathoms: The World in the Whale 3.88 avg rating — 1,957 ratings
32.
The Beauty in Breaking
The Beauty in Breaking 3.82 avg rating — 31,937 ratings
33.
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch 3.69 avg rating — 1,702 ratings
34.
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning 4.19 avg rating — 43,075 ratings
35.
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis 3.80 avg rating — 611 ratings
36.
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America
Conditional Citizens: On Belonging in America 4.27 avg rating — 4,137 ratings
37.
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, his Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World 3.90 avg rating — 949 ratings
38.
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir
The Dragons, the Giant, the Women: A Memoir 4.23 avg rating — 3,069 ratings
39.
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by: Les Payne
4.34 avg rating — 4,841 ratings
40.
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers
My Autobiography of Carson McCullers 4.08 avg rating — 2,753 ratings
41.
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir 4.20 avg rating — 8,042 ratings
42.
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World
The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World 3.92 avg rating — 21,240 ratings
43.
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir
Memorial Drive: A Daughter's Memoir 4.25 avg rating — 22,443 ratings
44.
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents 4.53 avg rating — 156,149 ratings
45.
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965
One Mighty and Irresistible Tide: The Epic Struggle Over American Immigration, 1924-1965 4.14 avg rating — 795 ratings
46.
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: Stories
Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino: Stories 3.58 avg rating — 499 ratings