2022 Book Award Winners

In the winter of 1959, Ruben Blum is the only Jewish member of the history faculty at a small college in upstate New York. He is a historian of...

Maali Almeida wakes up dead. He is a war photographer, a gambler and a closeted gay man in Colombo in 1990, and he cannot remember who killed him,...

Vacca Vale, Indiana, is a city the twentieth century used up and left: the Zorn Automobile works that built it are closed hulks, the valley the...

A year after Benny Oh's father is killed in an alley behind their house, the boy starts hearing things. Not voices in the ordinary sense: the...

Bliss Montage is Ling Ma's first story collection, eight stories published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September 2022, each built on one...

Mina Simpson is a Lebanese doctor in her late fifties, a surgeon with a Harvard degree and a wife of thirty years back in Chicago. She is also...

Andrea Elliott followed a girl named Dasani Coates for eight years, beginning when Dasani was eleven and living with her parents and seven siblings...

Nicole Eustace builds Covered with Night around a single killing on the Pennsylvania frontier in 1722, when fur traders John and Edmund Cartlidge...

Ada Ferrer traces more than five centuries of Cuban history, from Christopher Columbus's 1492 arrival through Spanish colonization, the sugar...

This is Winfred Rembert's own account of his life, told to the philosopher Erin Kelly and published the same year he died, and it follows him from...

South to America is Imani Perry's journey through the American South conducted on a thesis: that the South is not the nation's exception, the...

John Donne wrote the most electric love poems in English, and also the sermons that gave the language for whom the bell tolls and no man is an...

The whole history of life, 4.6 billion years in twelve chapters and around three hundred small pages, and the compression is the art: Gee, a Nature...

frank: sonnets tracks Diane Seuss's life from rural Michigan through the New York punk scene, the AIDS crisis, motherhood, and addiction, told...

Sonnets for Albert is a son's book about an absent father, written after the father's death, when absence becomes permanent and therefore finally...

An alien fleet is sitting at the edge of Teixcalaanli space, destroying ships and refusing to communicate in anything a human recognizes as...

A boy is taken from cholera stricken Canton in 1829 by an English professor, renamed Robin Swift, drilled in Latin, Greek and Mandarin, and...

Mario's daughter is four when the leukemia is diagnosed, and the novel's opening movement is the American nightmare played straight: the job lost,...

The Jasmine Throne is an epic fantasy inspired by the history of India, the first book of the Burning Kingdoms trilogy. The empire of Parijatdvipa...

Late November 1941: Joe McGrady is a Honolulu PD detective with a war record he does not discuss and a girl named Molly he means to marry, assigned...

In the year 2061, twelve year old Petra Peña boards a colony ship bound for a distant planet called Sagan as a comet closes in on Earth, carrying...

A young Chinese American girl is mortified when her parents pull the car over on a rural Ohio road to gather wild watercress growing in a roadside...

The Years covers Annie Ernaux's own life from 1941 to 2006, and it is built on a single formal choice that governs everything else in the book:...