2022 Book Awards Wrap-up
All the year's literary awards in one place!
As we reach the end of the year, several book awards are announced. But literary prizes are given all year and by November-December, it can be hard to remember who the winners were. So I decided a wrap-up would be helpful, for myself and others.
National Book Critics Circle Awards (March 2022)
Fiction: The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois — Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Nonfiction: How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America — Clint Smith
John Leonard Prize for First Fiction: Afterparties: Stories — Anthony Veasna So
Pulitzer Prize (May 2022)
Fiction: The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family — Joshua Cohen
Nonfiction: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City — Andrea Elliott
Women’s Prize for Fiction (June 2022)
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
Booker Prize (September 2022)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
Kirkus Prize (October 2022)
Fiction: Trust – Hernan Diaz
Nonfiction: In Sensorium: Notes for My People – Tanaïs
National Book Awards (November 2022)
Fiction: The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
Nonfiction: South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation — Imani Perry
Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada (November 2022)
The Sleeping Car Porter – Suzette Mayr
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction
Finalists (Winner announced on Jan. 29, 2023)
Greenland — David Santos Donaldson
Night of the Living Rez — Morgan Talty
The Swimmers — Julie Otsuka
Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalists (Winner announced on Jan. 29, 2023)
Constructing a Nervous System — Margo Jefferson
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden World around Us — Ed Yong
Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage — Rachel E. Gross
Washington Post’s Best Books of the Year
Fiction:
Afterlives – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Trust – Hernan Diaz
Mecca – Susan Straight
Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
Washington Post’s Best Audiobooks of the Year (by Katherine Powers)
Fiction:
The Return of Faraz Ali – Aamina Ahmad
Shrines of Gaiety – Kate Atkinson
The Family Chao – Lan Samantha Chang
Olga Dies Dreaming – Xochitl Gonzalez
Afterlives – Abdulrazak Gurnah
Acts of Oblivion – Robert Harris
The Bullet That Missed – Richard Osman
Amazon’s 20 Best Books of the Year
Literature and Fiction:
The Winners – Fredrik Backman
All the Broken Places – John Boyne
Lessons in Chemistry – Bonnie Garmus
Reminders of Him – Colleen Hoover
NSFW – Isabel Kaplan
Fairy Tale – Stephen King
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver
Nightcrawling – Leila Mottley
We All Want Impossible Things – Catherine Newman
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
Mad Honey – Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Finney Boylan
We Are the Light – Matthew Quick
Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
Signal Fires – Dani Shapiro
Memphis – Tara M. Stringfellow
Young Mungo – Douglas Stuart
Take My Hand – Dolin Perkins-Valdez
Remarkably Bright Creatures – Shelby Van Pelt
The Two Lives of Sara – Catherine Adel West
City on Fire – Don Winslow
Now is Not the Time to Panic – Kevin Wilson
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Book of the Month Club book of the year award (membership vote)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Dawnie Walton’s Year of Awards for The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (2021)
Aspen Words Literary Prize (April)
VCU Cabell First Novelist Award (July)
Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award (October)