Year-End Lists

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2022

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

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

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Activities of Daily Living
  Lisa Hsiao Chen
• All the Lovers in the Night
  Mieko Kawakami
• The Birdcatcher
  Gayl Jones
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• The Grimkes

  The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
  Kerri K. Greenidge
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty

BookPage: Best Nonfiction of 2022

[see also The Best Nonfiction of 2023 • The Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Half American

  The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
  Matthew F. Delmont
• How to Read Now

  Essays
  Elaine Castillo
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• In the Shadow of the Mountain

  A Memoir of Courage
  Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
• Inciting Joy

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

  The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
  Deborah Cohen
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Raising Lazarus

  Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis
  Beth Macy
• Red Paint

  The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
  Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• South to America

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

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tell Me Everything

  The Story of a Private Investigation
  Erika Krouse
• This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch

  The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It
  Tabitha Carvan
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• Virology

  Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
  Joseph Osmundson

BookPage: Best Fiction of 2022

[see also The Best Nonfiction of 2023 • The Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Calling for a Blanket Dance
  Oscar Hokeah
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• The Consequences
  Manuel Muñoz
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• How It Went

  Thirteen Late Stories of the Port William Membership
  Wendell Berry
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• Lessons in Chemistry
  Bonnie Garmus
• Natural History
  Andrea Barrett
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2022, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• In Sensorium

  Notes for My People
  Tanaïs

Finalists

• By Hands Now Known

  Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
  Margaret A. Burnham
• The Facemaker

  A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
  Lindsey Fitzharris
• The 1619 Project

  A New Origin Story
  Nikole Hannah-Jones (creator)
• These Precious Days
  Ann Patchett
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2022, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

Finalists

• Scary Monsters

  A Novel in Two Parts
  Michelle De Kretser
• God's Children Are Little Broken Things
  Arinze Ifeakandu
• Mecca
  Susan Straight
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk

The Booker Prize: Best Fiction of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka

Shortlist

• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Trees
  Percival Everett
• Treacle Walker
  Alan Garner
• Small Things Like These
  Claire Keegan
• Oh William!
  Elizabeth Strout

Longlist

• The Colony
  Audrey Magee
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
  Maddie Mortimer
• Case Study
  Graeme Macrae Burnet
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Booth
  Karen Joy Fowler

Women's Prize for Fiction: 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

Winner

• The Book of Form and Emptiness
  Ruth Ozeki

Shortlist

• Great Circle
  Maggie Shipstead
• The Island of Missing Trees
  Elif Shafak
• Sorrow and Bliss
  Meg Mason
• The Bread the Devil Knead
  Lisa Allen-Agostini
• The Sentence
  Louise Erdrich

Longlist

• Build Your House Around My Body
  Violet Kupersmith
• Careless
  Kirsty Capes
• Creatures of Passage
  Morowa Yejidé
• Flamingo
  Rachel Elliott
• Remote Sympathy
  Catherine Chidgey
• Salt Lick
  Lulu Allison
• The Exhibitionist
  Charlotte Mendelson
• The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
  Dawnie Walton
• The Paper Palace
  Miranda Cowley Heller
• This One Sky Day
  Leone Ross