NEW YORK — Percival Everett’s novel “James” has received yet another prestigious nomination in the literary world. This reimagining of Mark Twain’s classic tale, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is now in the running for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, which offers $5,000 in recognition of outstanding contributions to fiction and nonfiction as awarded by the American Library Association.

“James” is already a contender for several significant honors, having been nominated for the National Book Award and the Booker Prize, in addition to winning the Kirkus Prize for fiction. In the realm of nonfiction, one of the Carnegie nominees is Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” which also secured the Kirkus Prize in its category.

On the recent announcement from the library association, the other nominees in the fiction category for the Carnegie Medal include two debut works: Jiaming Tang’s “Cinema Love” and Kaveh Akbar’s “Martyr!,” which is also competing for the National Book Award.

In addition to “Challenger,” the nominees in the nonfiction category feature Emily Nussbaum’s “Cue the Sun! The Invention of Reality TV” and Kevin Fedarko’s “A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon.”

The winners will be revealed on January 26. Established in 2012, the Carnegie Medals have previously honored notable authors including Colson Whitehead, Jennifer Egan, and Higginbotham, who was recognized in 2020 for his work “Midnight in Chernobyl.”