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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Award-Winning Titles (October 2022)

We’re so excited about all of the newly announced book award winners and nominees!

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Shehan Karunatilaka was awarded this year's highly coveted Booker Prize for his novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. The Booker Prize is the top literary award for the best work of fiction written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Khadija Abdalla Bajaber was named the winner of the inaugural Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction for her novel, The House of Rust. How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu and The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente were named as top finalists. The Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction is awarded to a writer of imaginative fiction whose work reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work, including hope, equity, freedom, non-violence, and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world.

Harry Josephine Giles' novel Deep Wheel Orcadia received the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year.

Benjamin Dean, Natasha Bowen and Kia Abdullah have been named winners of the Diverse Book Awards 2022, the annual prize celebrating outstanding inclusive books by authors and publishers based in the UK and Ireland. Dean’s Me, My Dad and the End of the Rainbow won the Children’s Diverse Book Award. Skin of the Sea by Bowen won in the YA book category, and Abdullah’s Next of Kin won in the adult category.

Alia Trabucco Zerán won the 2022 British Academy Book Prize for her book, When Women Kill: Four Crimes Retold. The British Academy Book Prize is awarded annually for a non-fiction book that has made an outstanding contribution to global cultural understanding for a wider public audience.

Trust, by Hernan Diaz, won the Kirkus Prize for best fiction. In Sensorium, by Tanaïs, won for best non-fiction. And Himawari House, by Harmony Becker, won in the young readers category. The Kirkus Prizes are awarded by the industry journal Kirkus Reviews.

The shortlist has been announced for this year's Baillie Gifford Prize, which celebrates excellence in non-fiction writing. The list includes:

• Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire, by Caroline Elkins

• The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World, by Jonathan Freedland

• My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route, by Sally Hayden

• The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown, by Anna Keay

• A Fortunate Woman: A Country Doctor’s Story, by Polly Morland

• Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne, by Katherine Rundell

The winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize will be announced in November.

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