2022

winners

Discover honored books by category:

FINALISTS

The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir

Ingrid Rojas Contreras

Doubleday / Penguin Random House More about this book >

The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O’Rourke

Riverhead Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus

David Quammen

Simon & Schuster More about this book >

His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice

Robert Samuels,
Toluse Olorunnipa

Viking Books / Penguin Random House More about this book >

LONGLIST

Bright Unbearable Reality: Essays

Anna Badkhen

New York Review Books More about this book >

Ted Kennedy: A Life

John A. Farrell

Penguin Press / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time

Natalie Hodges

Bellevue Literary Press More about this book >

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández

W. W. Norton & Company More about this book >

Lost & Found: A Memoir

Kathryn Schulz

Random House / Penguin Random House More about this book >

Judges
Carol Anderson
Carol Anderson
Melissa Febos
Melissa Febos
Thor Hanson
Thor Hanson
Janet Webster Jones
Janet Webster Jones
Oscar Villalon
Oscar Villalon
Chair
Media


73rd Annual National Book Awards - Full Ceremony

Padma Lakshmi's opening remarks at the 2022 National Book Awards Ceremony
Padma Lakshmi's opening remarks at the 2022 National Book Awards Ceremony

Tess Gunty accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Fiction for The Rabbit Hutch

Imani Perry accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America
Imani Perry accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Nonfiction for South to America

John Keene accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems
John Keene accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Poetry for Punks: New & Selected Poems

Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell accept 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses
Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell accept 2022 National Book Award for Translated Literature for Seven Empty Houses

Sabaa Tahir accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for All My Rage
Sabaa Tahir accepts the 2022 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature for All My Rage

Nat. Book Foundation’s Board Chair David Steinberger & Exec. Dir. Ruth Dickey at the 73rd NBAwards
National Book Foundation’s Board Chair David Steinberger and Executive Director Ruth Dickey at the 73rd National Book Awards

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