HUMANKIND by Rutger Bregman was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. The award, established in 2012, recognizes the best fiction and nonfiction books for adult readers published in the U.S. in the previous year and serve as a guide to help adults select quality reading material. “This was unquestionably a challenging year for all the obvious reasons,” said 2021 Selection Committee Chair Bill Kelly in an October 26 statement. “And yet, in the end, reading proved to be just the balm one needs to sustain us, to give hope and strength and resilience in the face of an oppressively uncertain future. In that sense, 2020 was a great year to be a reader of outstanding books, and the Carnegie committee sincerely hopes that others will find the same power we did in the books on this year’s longlist.” The shortlist will be released November 17, 2020, with winners being announced on February 4, 2021. Little, Brown and Company published the book on June 2, 2020.