The American Library Association (ALA) has selected THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters as the winner of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America by Roxanna Asgarian as the winner of the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction.

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2024 Winners

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
   

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America, by Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
   

2024 Shortlist

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction

• THE BERRY PICKERS by Amanda Peters (Catapult)
• DENISON AVENUE by Christina Wong and Daniel Innes (ECW Press)
• LET US DESCEND by Jesmyn Ward (Scribner)

Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction

• THE GREAT DISPLACEMENT: Climate Change and the Next American Migration, by Jake Bittle (Simon & Schuster)
• THE TALK by Darrin Bell (Henry Holt and Company)
• WE WERE ONCE A FAMILY: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America, by Roxanna Asgarian (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)