Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Kirkus Prize
1 book has won both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Kirkus Prize: James (2025/2024). 39 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence · Kirkus Prize
Won both
| Book | Author | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Kirkus Prize |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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Recognized by both
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| Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space | Adam Higginbotham |
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| Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir | Tessa Hulls |
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| Let Us Descend | Jesmyn Ward |
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| Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom | Ilyon Woo |
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| Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino" | Héctor Tobar |
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| Witness | Jamel Brinkley |
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| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong |
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| By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners | Margaret A. Burnham |
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| Trust | Hernan Diaz |
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| Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness | Kristen Radtke |
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| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
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| Deacon King Kong | James McBride |
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| Fathoms: The World in the Whale | Rebecca Giggs |
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| Luster | Raven Leilani |
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| Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
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| Lost Children Archive | Valeria Luiselli |
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| On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous | Ocean Vuong |
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| Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland | Patrick Radden Keefe |
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| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
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| Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America | Beth Macy |
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| Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon |
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| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
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| The Gulf: The Making of an American Sea | Jack E. Davis |
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| The Ninth Hour | Alice McDermott |
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| White Tears | Hari Kunzru |
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| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
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| Imagine Me Gone | Adam Haslett |
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| The Sport of Kings | C. E. Morgan |
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| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
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| Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother's Quest—A True Story of the Jim Crow South | Beth Macy |
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| A Little Life | Hanya Yanagihara |
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| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| H Is for Hawk | Helen Macdonald |
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| Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers | Simon Winchester |
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| The Book of Aron | Jim Shepard |
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| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World | Andrea Wulf |
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| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
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| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
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