David Quammen
David Quammen has 3 books on the award lists tracked here, recognised between 1996 and 2023. Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction for Breathless: The Scientific Race To Defeat a Deadly Virus (2022), the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction for Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2013), and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction for Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic (2012).
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Award-Listed Books by David Quammen
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- ShortlistedAndrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction (2013)Major
- ShortlistedNational Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction (2012)Major

- ShortlistedRoyal Society Science Book Prize (2023)
- ShortlistedNational Book Award for Nonfiction (2022)Major

Nominated Alongside David Quammen
- 1Steve Coll71 score
- 2Jill Lepore53 score
- 3Katherine Boo40 score
- 4Richard Kluger39 score
- 5Andrew Solomon38 score
- 6Ed Yong36 score
- 7Timothy Egan26 score
- 8Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa25 score
- 9Imani Perry23 score
- 10Jonathan Harr22 score
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- 7Garry Wills5 books
- 8George F. Kennan5 books
- 9Greg Grandin5 books
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