Award overlap

Books Recognized by Both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Orwell Prize (book prizes)

No book has won both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Orwell Prize (book prizes). 19 were shortlisted or recognized by both.

Years are award years. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence · The Orwell Prize (book prizes)

Recognized by both

Books recognized by both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the The Orwell Prize (book prizes) without winning both, most recent first.
BookAuthorAndrew Carnegie Medals for ExcellenceThe Orwell Prize (book prizes)
JamesPercival Everett
  • 2025 Winner (Fiction)
  • 2024 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
My FriendsHisham Matar
  • 2025 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2024 Winner (Political Fiction)
Demon CopperheadBarbara Kingsolver
  • 2023 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2023 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
ApeirogonColum McCann
  • 2021 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2021 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan TownBarbara Demick
  • 2021 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2021 Shortlist (Political Writing)
Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart
  • 2021 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2021 Longlist (Political Fiction)
The Vanishing HalfBrit Bennett
  • 2021 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2021 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
WeatherJenny Offill
  • 2021 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2021 Longlist (Political Fiction)
Ducks, NewburyportLucy Ellmann
  • 2020 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2020 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for MenCaroline Criado Perez
  • 2020 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2020 Shortlist (Political Writing)
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern IrelandPatrick Radden Keefe
  • 2020 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2019 Winner (Political Writing)
The Nickel BoysColson Whitehead
  • 2020 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2020 Winner (Political Fiction)
UnderlandRobert Macfarlane
  • 2020 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2020 Shortlist (Political Writing)
An American MarriageTayari Jones
  • 2019 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2019 Longlist (Political Fiction)
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie ColvinLindsey Hilsum
  • 2019 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2019 Longlist (Political Writing)
Ordinary PeopleDiana Evans
  • 2019 Longlist (Fiction)
  • 2019 Shortlist (Political Fiction)
The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the BorderFrancisco Cantú
  • 2019 Finalist (Nonfiction)
  • 2019 Shortlist (Political Writing)
Another Day in the Death of AmericaGary Younge
  • 2017 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2017 Shortlist (Book)
ArguablyChristopher Hitchens
  • 2012 Longlist (Nonfiction)
  • 2012 Longlist (Book)