The American Library Association (ALA) today announced the six books shortlisted for the esteemed Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction, awarded for the previous year's best fiction and nonfiction books written for adult readers and published in the U.S.  

Selected 2015 shortlisted titles are:

Fiction

All the light we cannot see: a novel by Anthony Doerr

Nora Webster: a novel by Colm Tóibín

On such a full sea by Chang-rae Lee

Nonfiction

Just mercy: a story of justice and redemption by Bryan Stevenson

The sixth extinction: an unnatural history by Elizabeth Kolbert

Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin, and Sadat at Camp David by Lawrence Wright