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The List of National Book Awards Winners 2022

November 19, 2022
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Every year, the National Book Awards recognize the best writing in the US in the categories of Fiction, Nonfiction, Young People’s Literature, Poetry, and Translated Literature. Since the award was established in 1950, it has become one of the highest honors in publishing. The list of winners and finalists for this prestigious award always contains incredible books, and this year is no exception. Check out the complete list of winners for 2022 — just announced on November 16 — below, along with the finalists in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Young People’s Literature.

  1. The Rabbit Hutch
  2. South to America
  3. All My Rage
  4. Punks: New & Selected Poems
  5. Seven Empty Houses
  6. The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
  7. The Town of Babylon
  8. All This Could Be Different
  9. The Birdcatcher
  10. The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  11. The Invisible Kingdom
  12. Breathless
  13. His Name Is George Floyd
  14. Maizy Chen’s Last Chance
  15. The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School
  16. Victory. Stand!
  17. The Ogress and the Orphans


The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty

Fiction Winner

An online obituary writer. A young mother with a dark secret. A woman waging a solo campaign against rodents — neighbors, separated only by the thin walls of a low-cost housing complex in the once bustling industrial center of Vacca Vale, Indiana. Welcome to the Rabbit Hutch.

Ethereally beautiful and formidably intelligent, Blandine shares her apartment with three teenage boys she neither likes nor understands, all, like her, now aged out of the state foster care system that has repeatedly failed them.

Release Date: August 2, 2022

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South to America

Imani Perry

Nonfiction Winner

We all think we know the South. Even those who have never lived there can rattle off a list of signifiers: the Civil War, Gone with the Wind, the Ku Klux Klan, plantations, football, Jim Crow, slavery. But the idiosyncrasies, dispositions, and habits of the region are stranger and more complex than much of the country tends to acknowledge. In South to America, Imani Perry shows that the meaning of American is inextricably linked with the South, and that our understanding of its history and culture is the key to understanding the nation as a whole.

Release Date: January 25, 2022

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All My Rage

Sabaa Tahir

Young People’s Literature Winner

Misbah is a dreamer and storyteller, newly married to Toufiq in an arranged match. After their young life is shaken by tragedy, they come to the United States and open the Clouds’ Rest Inn Motel, hoping for a new start.

Salahudin and Noor are more than best friends; they are family. Growing up as outcasts in the small desert town of Juniper, California, they understand each other the way no one else does. Until The Fight, which destroys their bond with the swift fury of a star exploding.  

Release Date: March 1, 2022

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Punks: New & Selected Poems

John Keene

Poetry Winner

A landmark collection of poetry by acclaimed fiction writer, translator, and MacArthur Fellow John Keene, PUNKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a generous treasury in seven sections that spans decades and includes previously unpublished and brand new work. With depth and breadth, PUNKS weaves together historic narratives of loss, lust, and love. The many voices that emerge in these poems–from historic Black personalities, both familial and famous, to the poet’s friends.

Release Date: December 1, 2021

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Seven Empty Houses

Samanta Schweblin

Translated Literature Winner

The seven houses in these seven stories are strange. A person is missing, or a truth, or memory; some rooms are enticing, some unmoored, others empty. But in Samanta Schweblin’s tense, visionary tales, something always creeps back inside: a ghost, a fight, trespassers, a list of things to do before you die, a child’s first encounter with darkness or the fallibility of parents. In each story, twists and turns will unnerve and surprise: Schweblin never takes the expected path and instead digs under the skin, revealing surreal truths about our sense of home, of belonging, and of the fragility of our connections with others.

Release Date: October 18, 2022

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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai

Fiction Finalist

Pen/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai ​breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness, Kochai once again captures “a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers.”*

Release Date: July 19, 2022

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The Town of Babylon

Alejandro Varela

Fiction Finalist

In this contemporary debut novel—an intimate portrait of queer, racial, and class identity —Andrés, a gay Latinx professor, returns to his suburban hometown in the wake of his husband’s infidelity. There he finds himself with no excuse not to attend his twenty-year high school reunion, and hesitantly begins to reconnect with people he used to call friends. Over the next few weeks, while caring for his aging parents and navigating the neighborhood where he grew up, Andrés falls into old habits with friends he thought he’d left behind.

Release Date: March 22, 2022

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All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews

Fiction Finalist

Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.

Release Date: August 2, 2022

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The Birdcatcher

Gayl Jones

Fiction Finalist

Gayl Jones, the novelist Toni Morrison discovered decades ago and Tayari Jones recently called her favorite writer, has been described as one of the great literary writers of the 20th century. Now, for the first time in over 20 years, Jones is publishing again. In the wake of her long-awaited fifth novel, Palmares, The Birdcatcher is another singular achievement, a return to the circles of her National Book Award finalist, The Healing. Set primarily on the island of Ibiza, the story is narrated by the writer Amanda Wordlaw.

Release Date: September 13, 2022

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The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Nonfiction Finalist

For Ingrid Rojas Contreras, magic runs in the family. Raised amid the political violence of 1980s and ’90s Colombia, in a house bustling with her mother’s fortune-telling clients, she was a hard child to surprise. Her maternal grandfather, Nono, was a renowned curandero, a community healer gifted with what the family called “the secrets”: the power to talk to the dead, tell the future, treat the sick, and move the clouds. And as the first woman to inherit “the secrets,” Rojas Contreras’.

Release Date: July 12, 2022

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The Invisible Kingdom

Meghan O’Rourke

Nonfiction Finalist

A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier. Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews.

Release Date: March 1, 2022

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Breathless

David Quammen

Nonfiction Finalist

Breathless is the story of SARS-CoV-2 and its fierce journey through the human population, as seen by the scientists who study its origin, its ever-changing nature, and its capacity to kill us. David Quammen expertly shows how strange new viruses emerge from animals into humans as we disrupt wild ecosystems, and how those viruses adapt to their human hosts, sometimes causing global catastrophe. He explains why this coronavirus will probably be a “forever virus,” destined to circulate among humans and bedevil us endlessly, in one variant form or another.

Release Date: October 4, 2022

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His Name Is George Floyd

Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Nonfiction Finalist

The events of that day are now tragically familiar: on May 25, 2020, George Floyd became the latest Black person to die at the hands of the police, murdered outside of a Minneapolis convenience store by white officer Derek Chauvin. The video recording of his death set off a series of protests in the United States and around the world, awakening millions to the dire need for reimagining this country’s broken systems of policing. But behind a face that would be graffitied onto countless murals, and a name that has become synonymous with civil rights, there is the reality of one man’s stolen life.

Release Date: May 17, 2022

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Maizy Chen’s Last Chance

Lisa Yee

Young People’s Literature Finalist

Maizy has never been to Last Chance, Minnesota . . . until now. Her mom’s plan is just to stay for a couple weeks, until her grandfather gets better. But plans change, and as Maizy spends more time in Last Chance and at the Golden Palace—the restaurant that’s been in her family for generations—she makes some discoveries.

But the more Maizy discovers, the more questions she has. Like, why are her mom and her grandmother always fighting?

Release Date: February 1, 2022

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The Lesbiana’s Guide to Catholic School

Sonora Reyes

Young People’s Literature Finalist

Sixteen-year-old Yamilet Flores prefers to be known for her killer eyeliner, not for being one of the only Mexican kids at her new, mostly white, very rich Catholic school. But at least here no one knows she’s gay, and Yami intends to keep it that way. After being outed by her crush and ex-best friend before transferring to Slayton Catholic, Yami has new priorities: keep her brother out of trouble, make her mom proud, and, most importantly, don’t fall in love.

Release Date: May 17, 2022

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Victory. Stand!

Derrick Barnes, Dawud Anyabwile, and Tommie Smith

Young People’s Literature Finalist

On October 16, 1968, during the medal ceremony at the Mexico City Olympics, Tommie Smith, the gold medal winner in the 200-meter sprint, and John Carlos, the bronze medal winner, stood on the podium in black socks and raised their black-gloved fists to protest racial injustice inflicted upon African Americans. Both men were forced to leave the Olympics, received death threats, and faced ostracism and continuing economic hardships.

Release Date: September 27, 2022

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The Ogress and the Orphans

Kelly Barnhill

Young People’s Literature Finalist

Stone-in-the-Glen, once a lovely town, has fallen on hard times. Fires, floods, and other calamities have caused the people to lose their library, their school, their park, and even their neighborliness. The people put their faith in the Mayor, a dazzling fellow who promises he alone can help. After all, he is a famous dragon slayer. (At least, no one has seen a dragon in his presence.) Only the clever children of the Orphan House and the kindly Ogress at the edge of town can see how dire the town’s problems are.

Release Date: March 8, 2022

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