2022 Awards
2022 Pulitzer Prize for Letters, Drama and Music Winners
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
- Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott
- Pulitzer Prize for History:
Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace
Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
2022 Booker Prize Winners
- Booker Prize:
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
2022 The John Newbery Medal Winners
- Newbery Medal:
The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera
2022 Edgar Awards Winners--Mystery and Crime
- Edgar Award for Best Novel:
Five Decembers by James Kestrel
- Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author:
Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
- Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original:
Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
- Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime:
Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green
- Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical:
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
- Edgar Award for Young Adult:
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Edgar Award for Juvenile:
Concealed by Christina Duiaz Gonzalez
2022 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners
- NBCC Award for Fiction:
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers
- NBCC Award for Nonfiction:
How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
- NBCC Award for Biography:
All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner
- NBCC Award for Autobiography:
Gay Bar: Why We Went Out by Jeremy Atherton Lin
- NBCC Award for Criticism:
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
- NBCC Award for Poetry:
frank: sonnets by Diane Seuss
- NBCC John Leonard Prize: Best First Book in Any Genre:
Afterparties by Anthony Veasna So
2022 National Book Awards Winners
- National Book Award for Fiction:
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
- National Book Award for Nonfiction:
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason - Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
- National Book Award for Poetry:
Punks: New and Selected Poems by John Keene
- National Book Award for Young People's Literature:
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
- National Book Award for Translated Literature:
Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin, Megan McDowell