Award overlap
Books That Won Both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
3 books won both the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence and the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes between 2018 and 2024, most recently We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (2024/2023). 84 more were recognized by both without winning both.
Years are award years. Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence · Los Angeles Times Book Prizes
Won both
| Book | Author | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Los Angeles Times Book Prizes |
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| We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America | Roxanna Asgarian |
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| Heavy: An American Memoir | Kiese Laymon |
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| The Great Believers | Rebecca Makkai |
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Recognized by both
| Book | Author | Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence | Los Angeles Times Book Prizes |
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| Cinema Love | Jiaming Tang |
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| Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis | Jonathan Blitzer |
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| God Bless You, Otis Spunkmeyer | Joseph Earl Thomas |
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| James | Percival Everett |
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| Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde | Alexis Pauline Gumbs |
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| All the Sinners Bleed | S. A. Cosby |
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| An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us | Ed Yong |
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| By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners | Margaret A. Burnham |
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| Calling for a Blanket Dance | Oscar Hokeah |
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| Solito | Javier Zamora |
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| The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together | Heather McGhee |
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| The Waiting | Keum Suk Gendry-Kim |
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| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson |
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| Shuggie Bain | Douglas Stuart |
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| The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creatures in the Natural World | Patrik Svensson |
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| The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X | Les Payne, Tamara Payne |
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| The Undocumented Americans | Karla Cornejo Villavicencio |
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| Figuring | Maria Popova |
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| Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men | Caroline Criado Perez |
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| Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster | Adam Higginbotham |
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| The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present | David Treuer |
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| The Nickel Boys | Colson Whitehead |
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| An American Marriage | Tayari Jones |
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| Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America | Beth Macy |
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| Educated | Tara Westover |
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| The Incendiaries | R.O. Kwon |
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| The Library Book | Susan Orlean |
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| The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border | Francisco Cantú |
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| There There | Tommy Orange |
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| Warlight | Michael Ondaatje |
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| Washington Black | Esi Edugyan |
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| Exit West | Mohsin Hamid |
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| Grant | Ron Chernow |
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| Hué 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam | Mark Bowden |
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| Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America | James Forman Jr. |
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| Richard Nixon | John A. Farrell |
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| Sing, Unburied, Sing | Jesmyn Ward |
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| The Night Ocean | Paul La Farge |
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| We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy | Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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| City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp | Ben Rawlence |
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| Dodgers | Bill Beverly |
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| Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City | Matthew Desmond |
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| Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War | Mary Roach |
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| Imagine Me Gone | Adam Haslett |
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| Kill 'Em and Leave: Searching for James Brown and the American Soul | James McBride |
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| Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies | Ross King |
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| Swing Time | Zadie Smith |
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| White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America | Nancy Isenberg |
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| Delicious Foods | James Hannaham |
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| Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi | Hayden Herrera |
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| The Green Road | Anne Enright |
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| The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World | Andrea Wulf |
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| The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen |
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| Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security | Sarah Chayes |
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| Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption | Bryan Stevenson |
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| The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution | Walter Isaacson |
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| The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League | Jeff Hobbs |
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| The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History | Elizabeth Kolbert |
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| Thirteen Days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David | Lawrence Wright |
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| A Tale for the Time Being | Ruth Ozeki |
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| Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures | Virginia Morell |
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| Bolivar: American Liberator | Marie Arana |
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| Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital | Sheri Fink |
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| Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief | Lawrence Wright |
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| The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
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| The Woman Upstairs | Claire Messud |
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| Wilson | A. Scott Berg |
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| Arcadia | Lauren Groff |
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| Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity | Katherine Boo |
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| Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk | Ben Fountain |
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| Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking | Susan Cain |
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| Telegraph Avenue | Michael Chabon |
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| The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson | Robert A. Caro |
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| The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy | David Nasaw |
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| Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe | George Dyson |
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| Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman | Robert K. Massie |
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| Luminarium | Alex Shakar |
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| Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention | Manning Marable |
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| The Art of Fielding | Chad Harbach |
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| The Cat's Table | Michael Ondaatje |
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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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| Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman |
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| Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption | Laura Hillenbrand |
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