Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2022

Winner

• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry

Finalists

• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Breathless

  The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
  David Quammen
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Longlist

• Bright Unbearable Reality

  Essays
  Anna Badkhen
• Ted Kennedy

  A Life
  John A. Farrell
• Uncommon Measure

  A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
  Natalie Hodges
• Bad Mexicans

  Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
  Kelly Lytle Hernández
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz