Award-Winning Titles (November 2022)

Announcing this month's literary award winners! Follow the links below to order online.

Katherine Rundell won the coveted Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction for her book, Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne. The Baillie Gifford Prize rewards excellence in non-fiction writing, including current affairs, history, politics, science, sports, travel, biography, autobiography, and the arts.

The National Book Awards celebrate the best writing in America. The 2022 winners are:

• South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, by Imani Perry (Nonfiction)

• The Rabbit Hutch, by Tess Gunty (Fiction)

• Punks: New and Selected Poems, by John Keene (Poetry)

• All My Rage, by Sabaa Tahir (Young Adult)

• Seven Empty Houses, by Samanta Schweblin (Translated Literature)

Dawnie Walton was awarded this year's Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for her novel, The Final Revival of Opal and Nev. The Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award honors an exemplary work of fiction from the previous calendar year that speaks with an “American Voice” about American experiences.

The New York Times Book Review and the New York Public Library announced their picks for the top 10 Best Illustrated Children’s Books in 2022:

• Farmhouse, by Sophie Blackall

• Yellow Dog Blues, by Alice Faye Duncan, illustrated by Chris Raschka

• Night Lunch, by Eric Fan, illustrated by Dena Seiferling

• Telling Stories Wrong, by Gianni Rodari, illustrated by Beatrice Alemagna, translated by Antony Shugaar

• Bedtime for Bo, by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold, illustrated by Mari Kanstad Johnsen, translated by Kari Dickson

• The Upside Down Hat, by Stephen Barr, illustrated by Gracey Zhang

• The New Rooster, by Rilla Alexander

• The Writer, by Davide Cali, illustrated by Monica Barengo

• Where Butterflies Fill the Sky, by Zahra Marwan

• Still This Love Goes On, by Buffy Sainte-Marie, illustrated by Julie Flett

Heid E. Erdrich won the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry for her poetry collection Little Big Bully, while former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove won for lifetime achievement. The Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry is awarded to an American poet for the most distinguished book of poetry published during the preceding two years or for lifetime achievement in poetry.

Our partners at Libro.fm recently announced their Top 10 Bestselling Audiobooks of 2022:

• I’m Glad My Mom Died, by Jennette McCurdy

• Book Lovers, by Emily Henry

• The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley

• Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus

• Thank You For Listening, by Julia Whelan

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

• Nona the Ninth, by Tamsyn Muir

• The Maid, by Nita Prose

• How to Be Perfect, by Michael Schur

• How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu

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