A total of 46 books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) has been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction. The list is now available on the awards’ website. The six-title shortlist—three each for the fiction and nonfiction medals—will be chosen from longlist titles and announced on November 12, 2024.

The Other Side of Tomorrow
written by Tina Cho, illustrated by Deb JJ Lee

On his tenth birthday, Junho remembers his beloved mother: two years ago, she escaped North Korea, promising, “We’ll fly to freedom together one day.” Meanwhile, 11-year-old Myunghee has already learned the “secrets of survival: trading and bribery” in order to keep herself and her fragile great-aunt alive.

10 Questions for Bryn Donovan
By John Charles

Bryn Donovan is the author of several romance novels, including Sunrise Cabin, a Publishers Weekly best-seller. She’s also written nonfiction books and the story treatments for two Hallmark Channel movies.

10 Questions for Vanessa Kelly
By John Charles

Vanessa Kelly is a best-selling author of historical mystery and historical romance. She has won multiple awards, including the prestigious Maggie Medallion for best historical romance. She is a USA Today, Barnes & Noble, BookScan, and Amazon best-seller several times over.

High-Demand Read-alikes: Fathers in Crime
by Donna Seaman

Walter Mosley’s father-and-son mystery, Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, the latest in his King Oliver series, pulses with the contradictory emotions generated by the long estrangement between Joe King Oliver, an NYPD detective turned PI, and his father, Chief Odin Oliver, who served a long prison sentence. The thrillers and mysteries below similarly interweave complicated, painful, and mysterious paternal relationships with dangerous criminal investigations.

Manga Essentials: Art Manga
by Ashley Hawkins

It is perhaps only natural that mangaka would be drawn to the world of art as inspiration for their work. In these manga, artists of all types and art of varying forms takes the spotlight.

The Shelf Care Interview: Carole Boston Weatherford​

In this episode of Shelf Care Interview, Sarah Hunter talked to Carole Boston Weatherford about The Doll Test: Choosing Equality

10 Questions for Rose Carlyle
By John Charles

Rose Carlyle is a lawyer and keen adventurer. She has crewed on scientific yachting expeditions to subantarctic islands and has sailed with her family from Thailand to South Africa.