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2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals Longlist Announced

A total of 46 books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced on November 12, 2024.

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The Edge of Water
by Olufunke Grace Bankole

​Award-winning Bankole presents a powerful and emotional debut novel that deftly explores the complexities of identity, family, and belonging. Set in Nigeria and New Orleans during the time of Hurricane Katrina, the story centers on Amina, caught in the turbulence of her parents’ strained marriage and her own struggle to define herself.




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Amanda Elliot lives with her husband and daughter in New York City, where she collects way too many cookbooks for her tiny kitchen, runs in Central Park, and writes for teens and kids under the name Amanda Panitch.

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Vanessa Kelly is a best-selling author of historical mystery and historical romance. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Maggie Medallion for best historical romance. She is a USA Today, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, and Amazon best-seller several times over.

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Walter Mosley’s father-and-son mystery, Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, the latest in his King Oliver series, pulses with the contradictory emotions generated by the long estrangement between Joe King Oliver, an NYPD detective turned PI, and his father, Chief Odin Oliver, who served a long prison sentence. The thrillers and mysteries below similarly interweave complicated, painful, and mysterious paternal relationships with dangerous criminal investigations.

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