Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
Mojo: 75 Best Albums of 2024
The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2024
more...
2012 Books
Carnegie Medal: Nonfiction 2012
21 May 2012
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence
:
Nonfiction 2012
[see also
Fiction 2012
]
Winner
Catherine the Great
Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie
Shortlist / Finalists
The Information
A History, a Theory, a Flood
James Gleick
Malcolm X
A Life of Reinvention
Manning Marable
Longlist
Turn Right at Machu Picchu
Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
Mark Adams
The Memory Palace
Mira Bartok
Class Warfare
Inside the Fight to Fix America's Schools
Steven Brill
The Social Animal
The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
David Brooks
The Big Thirst
The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water
Charles Fishman
The Swerve
How the World Became Modern
Stephen Greenblatt
Unbroken
A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand
Arguably
Essays
Christopher Hitchens
Apollo's Angels
A History of Ballet
Jennifer Homans
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Elizabeth and Hazel
Two Women of Little Rock
David Margolick
The Greater Journey
Americans in Paris
David McCullough
Destiny of the Republic
A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President
Candice Millard
The Emperor of All Maladies
A Biography of Cancer
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rin Tin Tin
The Life and the Legend
Susan Orlean
The Paper Garden
An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock
Inside Scientology
The Story of America’s Most Secretive Religion
Janet Reitman