March Medals Madness!

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MarchMedalsMadness TwitterIt’s March Madness and we’ve got brackets on the brain! We’re excited to see Arizona and North Carolina in the Sweet Sixteen, but we’re even MORE jazzed about ALA’s March Medals Madness where you can vote to predict the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction for a chance to win books AND money!

Click here to view to pick the three fiction and three nonfiction titles from the 2015 Andrew Carnegie Medals longlist that you think will be named to the shortlist, as well as the two winners. The player matching the most titles named to the 2015 shortlist will win a $50 cash card and a full set of the 2015 shortlist titles.

If you need voting help, let us recommend Macmillan’s finest:

Nonfiction:
SPARE PARTS: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream by Joshua Davis
NO PLACE TO HIDE: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
THE SIXTH EXTINCTION: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

Fiction:
SONG OF THE SHANK by Jeffery Renard Allen
THE CONFESSIONS OF FRANCES GODWIN by Robert Hellenga
THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER by Hilary Mantel
LILA by Marilynne Robinson

Stay tuned for the shortlist announcement on April 6, 2015 to see if your picks were selected as shortlist titles and follow #ala_carnegie on Twitter (tag @ALA_Booklist) and Facebook for updates.


The winners of the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced at the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in San Francisco on June 27, 2015. More information about the awards can be found click here to view.

 

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