Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the PEN America Literary Awards
2 books won both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the PEN America Literary Awards between 2012 and 2017, most recently Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City (2017/2017). 55 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence · PEN America Literary Awards
Won both
| Book | Author | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | PEN America Literary Awards |
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| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
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| Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | Robert K. Massie |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | PEN America Literary Awards |
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| Early Sobrieties | Michael Deagler |
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| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong |
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| Calling for a Blanket Dance | Oscar Hokeah |
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| Night of the Living Rez | Morgan Talty |
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| Seeking Fortune Elsewhere | Sindya Bhanoo |
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| Solito | Javier Zamora |
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| Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage | Rachel E. Gross |
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| A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance | Hanif Abdurraqib |
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| The Five Wounds | Kirstin Valdez Quade |
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| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
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| Fathoms: The World in the Whale | Rebecca Giggs |
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| Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family | Robert Kolker |
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| Luster: A Novel | Raven Leilani |
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| Shuggie Bain: A Novel | Douglas Stuart |
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| The Yellow House | Sarah M. Broom |
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| Losing Earth: A Recent History | Nathaniel Rich |
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| Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves | Frans de Waal |
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| Educated: A Memoir | Tara Westover |
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| Freshwater | Akwaeke Emezi |
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| Friday Black | Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah |
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| How to Write an Autobiographical Novel | Alexander Chee |
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| Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry | Imani Perry |
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| The Overstory: A Novel | Richard Powers |
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| There There | Tommy Orange |
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| Augustown | Kei Miller |
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| Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News | Kevin Young |
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| Grant | Ron Chernow |
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| History of Wolves | Emily Fridlund |
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| Richard Nixon: The Life | John A. Farrell |
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| The Graybar Hotel | Curtis Dawkins |
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| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| White Tears | Hari Kunzru |
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| Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America | Patrick Phillips |
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| Dodgers | Bill Beverly |
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| Homegoing | Yaa Gyasi |
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| Lab Girl | Hope Jahren |
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| The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish | Emily Voigt |
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| The Underground Railroad | Colson Whitehead |
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| Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
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| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri Fink |
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| The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace | Jeff Hobbs |
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| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
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| A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | Anthony Marra |
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| Lawrence in Arabia | Scott Anderson |
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| The Faraway Nearby | Rebecca Solnit |
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| The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards | Kristopher Jansma |
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| Battleborn | Claire Vaye Watkins |
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| Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Katherine Boo |
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| James Joyce: A Biography | Gordon Bowker |
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| Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic | David Quammen |
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| Arguably | Christopher Hitchens |
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| The Art of Fielding | Chad Harbach |
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| The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer | Siddhartha Mukherjee |
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| The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood | James Gleick |
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