Medals for Excellencein Fiction and Nonfiction

2014 FINALISTS

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Did you love the 2014 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence winners? Booklist and RUSA recommend these other fantastic reads! If you liked The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt, published by Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., you may also like...

n Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, by Jonathan Safran Foer n Falling Man, by Don DeLillon Freedom, by Jonathan Franzenn The Hour I First Believed, by Wally Lambn Maya’s Notebook, by Isabelle Allenden Theft, by Peter Careyn The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, by Kristopher Jansman A Visit from the Goon Squad, by Jennifer Egan

If you liked The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin, published by Simon & Schuster, you may also like...

n 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs—the Election That Changed the Country, by James Chance

n All the Presidents Men, by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernsteinn Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President,

by Candace Millardn The Jungle, by Upton Sinclairn Personal History, by Katharine Grahamn River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, by Candace Millardn Teddy Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet, by James R. Recknern Truman, by David McCulloughn The Years of Lyndon Johnson series (Path to Power, Means of Ascent, Master of the

Senate, and Passage of Power), by Robert A. Caro

2014 WINNERS

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n All Our Names, by Dinaw Mengestun Brick Lane, by Monica Ali n The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Diazn Cutting for Stone, by Abraham Verghesen The Fruit of the Lemon, by Andrea Levyn NW, by Zadie Smithn On Beauty, by Zadie Smith n Petropolis, by Anya Ulinich n What Is the What, by Dave Eggers

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n The Autobiography of My Mother, by Jamaica Kincaidn Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat n The Meaning of Consuelo, by Judith Ortiz Cofern The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography, by Sidney Poitier n Miguel Street, by V. S. Naipaul n Mister Pip, by Lloyd Jonesn Rainbow Troops, by Andrea Hiratan Salvage the Bones, by Jessmyn Ward

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n The Case for Books: Past, Present, Future, by Robert Darntonn A Duel of Giants: Bismarck, Napoleon III, and the Orgins of the Franco-Prussian War,

by David Wetzeln The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleickn Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America, by Garry Wills n Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky n To the Letter: A Celebration of the Lost Art of Letter Writing, by Simon Garfield

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n The Dynamics of Disaster, by Susan W. Kieffern Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster, by Jon Krakauern Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butlern Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938, by R. A. Scottn Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles

Into the Darkness, by Neil Swideyn War Hospital: A True Story of Surgery and Survival, by Sheri Finkn Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers

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