Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction:
The Forgotten Waltz, by Anne Enright,
published by W. W. Norton & Company
Lost Memory of Skin, by Russell Banks,
published by Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell,
published by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House, Inc.
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction:
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie, published by Random House, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, by James Gleick, published by Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc.
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by Manning Marable,
published by Viking Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Information taken from Booklist, May 17, 2012, ALA Publishing.