2022 Kirkus Prize Finalists Announced

By: Brandon Williams, September 11th, 2022 2:09 am.

The finalists for the 2022 Kirkus Prize are out!

There are three categories for the Kirkus Prize – fiction, nonfiction, and young reader’s literature. Each prize comes with a $50,000 prize for the author.

More than 1,400 books were evaluated that were narrowed down to the following finalists:

Fiction

  • Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
  • Mecca by Susan Straight
  • Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
  • The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

Nonfiction

  • By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham
  • The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle To Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein
  • These Precious Days: Essays by Ann Patchett
  • In Sensorium: Notes for My People by Tanaïs
  • An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong

Young Readers’ Literature

  • Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost by Betina Birkjær
  • The Year We Learned To Fly by Jacqueline Woodson
  • The Golden Hour by Niki Smith
  • The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy by Anne Ursu
  • Himawari House by Harmony Becker
  • How You Grow Wings by Rimma Onoseta

The Kirkus Prize is the creation of the magazine Kirkus Reviews. It was established in 2014. Some of the winning authors include Lily King, Hanya Yanagihara, C.E. Morgan, Colson Whitehead, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jason Reynolds, and more.

The winners will be announced in October.

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