2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence

The 2026 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction were announced by the American Library Association on January 27, 2026. Megha Majumdar won the fiction medal for A Guardian and a Thief, and Yiyun Li won the nonfiction medal for Things in Nature Merely Grow. Each category had three finalists. In fiction they included Agustina Bazterrica's The Unworthy, translated by Sarah Moses, and Han Kang's We Do Not Part, translated by e. yaewon and Paige Aniyah Morris. In nonfiction they included Mélikah Abdelmoumen's Baldwin, Styron, and Me, translated by Catherine Khordoc, and Brian Goldstone's There Is No Place for Us. The ALA later announced that the 2026 winners would be the last before the medals go on hiatus.