The Prize Winning Books of 2022

I follow a lot of book prizes! Here I survey the 2022 award winning titles from several different book prizes across the world to let you know if they are worth reading or not. Click ‘Show More’ for info.

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Books discussed, links to prize vlogs/shortlist reacttions & purchase links:

Nobel Prize – Annie Ernaux
https://tidd.ly/3gXJJwZ

Booker Prize:    • Booker Prize 2022 Winner Reaction & P...  
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
https://tidd.ly/3fJMrG2

International Booker Prize:    • International Booker Prize 2022 Winne...  
Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
https://tidd.ly/3Mz2PVg

Women's Prize for Fiction:    • Women's Prize for Fiction 2022 Party ...  
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
https://tidd.ly/3UnBwjs

National Book Award:    • The National Book Award 2022 shortlists  
(Fiction) The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
https://tidd.ly/3flZCNc
(Translated Literature) Seven Empty Houses – Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell)
https://tidd.ly/3hAmWr7

Pulitzer Prize
The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen
https://tidd.ly/3OU6DlB

British Book Awards:    • The British Book Awards 2022 vlog & I...  
(Fiction Book of the Year) Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
https://tidd.ly/3ETw2Y6
(Debut Fiction Book of the Year) Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
https://tidd.ly/3or7b6B
(Pageturner Book of the Year) Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
https://tidd.ly/3uk7L8F

Royal Society Science Book Prize:    • Royal Society Science Book Prize 2022...  
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth – Henry Gee
https://tidd.ly/3Uopd6W

The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding:    • The British Academy Book Prize for Gl...  
When Women Kill – Alia Trabucco Zeran (translated by Sophie Hughes)
https://tidd.ly/3OULdER

The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Super Infinite – Katherine Rundell
https://tidd.ly/3ON9Ovg

Wainwright Prize:    • The Best New Nature Writing 2022  
(Nature Writing) Goshawk Summer – James Aldred
https://tidd.ly/3OSjGCl
(Conservation) Eating to Extinction – Dan Saladino
https://tidd.ly/3BFivDo

Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize:    • Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2022  
The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
https://tidd.ly/3flZCNc

Orwell Prize for Political Fiction:    • The Orwell Prize for Political Fictio...  
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
https://tidd.ly/31V1l5n

Rathbones Folio Award:    • Rathbones Folio Award Ceremony 2022 vlog  
The Magician – Colm Toibin
https://tidd.ly/3H3cumO

Goldsmith's Prize
Diego Garcia – Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams
https://tidd.ly/3EVP3ZW

Republic of Consciousness Prize:    • Republic of Consciousness Prize 2022  
Happy Stories, Mostly – Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
https://tidd.ly/3IuSG9l

Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
https://tidd.ly/3Mz2PVg
Osebol – Marit Kapla (translated by Peter Graves)
https://tidd.ly/3B3yYjD

Stella Prize
Drop Bear – Evelyn Araluen
https://tidd.ly/3B0Cv2g

Irish Book Awards
(Eason Novel of the Year) Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
https://tidd.ly/3uVCYPY

Giller Prize
The Sleeping Car Porter – Suzette Mayr
https://tidd.ly/3XLX8c9

Joyce Carol Oates Prize:    • Meet the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize...  
Lauren Groff
https://tidd.ly/3OU82bR

The Forward Prizes for Poetry
(Best Collection) All the Men I Never Married – Kim Moore
https://tidd.ly/3B1INid
(First Collection) Amnion – Stephanie Sy-Quia
https://tidd.ly/3VFrD1A
'Up Late' by Nick Laird: https://granta.com/up-late-nick-laird/


Some reviews of the books I've read:

The Years – Annie Ernaux
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2019/...

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
   • The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by S...  

Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/...

The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2022/...

Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...

Small Pleasures
https://lonesomereader.com/blog/2021/...

Small Things Like These
   • Small Things Like These by Claire Kee...  

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