The American Library Association (ALA) has selected THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka as the winner of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong as the winner of the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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2023 Winners

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
   

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong (Random House)
   

2023 Shortlist

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• GREENLAND by David Santos Donaldson (Amistad)
• NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ by Morgan Talty (Tin House)
• THE SWIMMERS by Julie Otsuka (Knopf)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• CONSTRUCTING A NERVOUS SYSTEM: A Memoir, by Margo Jefferson (Pantheon)
• AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong (Random House)
• VAGINA OBSCURA: An Anatomical Voyage, by Rachel E. Gross (W. W. Norton)