In February we brought you the longlist for the Andrew Carnegie Medals, now we can bring you the shortlist!  3 books in each category – fiction and nonfiction – are left!  The two winners will be announced at the ALA (American Library Association) Annual Conference on June 27th!  Here’s what the competition has come down to. . .

Fiction

• All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
• Nora Webster by Colm Toibin
• On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee

Nonfiction

• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson
• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
• Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright

Check out the details on the finalists here!

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