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Want to enhance your summer reading program? Our experts have compiled a list of read alikes for shortlist for readers to enjoy! Not enough time to read? Don’t forget the audiobook editions! Shortlist read alikes are selected by the Reference and User Services Association’s (RUSA) Notable Books Council, which is comprised of expert readers’ advisors and librarians that work closely with adult readers.

Discussion Guides

2017 Winner Discussion Guides:

by Colson Whitehead

by Matthew Desmond

2016 Winner Discussion Guides:

, by Viet Thanh Nguyen

, by Sally Mann

2015 Winner Discussion Guides:

by Anthony Doerr

by Bryan Stevenson

2014 Winner Discussion Guides:

by Donna Tartt

by Doris Kearns Goodwin

Andrew Carnegie Medals, author videos: Watch finalists and winners comment on their shortlist nominations, speak on the importance of libraries, and extol the power of librarians.

• , author of This Is How You Lose Her and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2013 finalist
• , author of The Round House and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2013 finalist
• , author of The Forgotten Waltz and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2012 winner
• , author of Lost Memory of Skin and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2012 finalist
• , author of Swamplandia! and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2012 finalist
• , author of The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood and Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction 2012 finalist