Notable and Award-Winning Books of 2022

From: Penguin Random House - Wednesday Dec 28,2022 03:03 pm

And the winners are...

The Notable and Award-Winning Books of 2022

Awards season is upon us! Book awards season, that is. These books represent the best of the best from 2022, vetted by experts (and readers like you). Find your next read among these exceptional titles.

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The Rabbit Hutch

By Tess Gunty

National Book Award Winner
Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom.

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Lessons in Chemistry

By Bonnie Garmus

New York Times Notable Book of 2022
Meet Elizabeth Zott: a scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is laugh-out-loud funny and shrewdly observant.

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Checkout 19

By Claire-Louise Bennett

New York Times Best Book of 2022
Exceeding the extraordinary promise of Claire-Louise Bennett’s mold-shattering debut, Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape it can offer all of us.

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All My Rage

By Sabaa Tahir

National Book Award Winner
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sabaa Tahir comes a brilliant, unforgettable, and heart-wrenching contemporary novel about family and forgiveness, love and loss, in a sweeping story that crosses generations and continents.

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Under the Skin

By Linda Villarosa

New York Times Best Book of 2022
From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.

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Stay True

By Hua Hsu

New York Times Best Book of 2022
From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

By Gabrielle Zevin

Goodreads Choice Awards Winner
Spanning 30 years, from Cambridge, Massachusetts to Venice Beach, California, and lands in between and far beyond, Gabrielle Zevin’s novel examines the multifarious nature of identity, disability, failure, the redemptive possibilities in play, and above all, our need to connect: to be loved and to love.

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Invisible Child

By Andrea Elliott

Pulitzer Prize Winner
In Invisible Child, Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn shelter.

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Clark and Division

By Naomi Hirahara

Edgar Award Winner
Set in 1944 Chicago, an eye-opening and poignant new mystery about a young woman searching for the truth about her revered older sister’s death, which brings to focus the struggles of one Japanese American family released from mass incarceration at Manzanar during World War II.

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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

New York Times Notable Book of 2022
From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of 19th-century Mexico.

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Seven Empty Houses

By Samanta Schweblin; translated by Megan McDowell

National Book Award Winner
A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the author “lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine

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Sea of Tranquility

By Emily St. John Mandel

Goodreads Choice Awards Winner
The bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, metaphysics, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 500 years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.

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