Holiday Gift Guide 2022: Award Nominees

Booker Prize

Awarded to literary fiction books in English and in translation.

• Glory by Noviolet Bulawayo
• The Trees by Percival Everett
• The Book of Mother by Violaine Huisman
• The Seven Moons of Maali by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
• Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
• Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
• Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout
• The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk

Hugo Award

Awarded to science fiction literature.

• Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
• The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik
• She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan 
• Lore Olympus Volume One by Rachel Smythe
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
• Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao

Lambda Literary Award

Awarded to LGBT books and authors.

• Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome
• Calvin by JR Ford and Vanessa Ford
• Belly of the Beast by Da’Shaun L. Harrison
• Mouths of Rain edited by Briona Simone Jones
• Stone Fruit by Lee Lai
• Skye Falling by Mia McKenzie
• We Want What We Want by Alix Ohlin
• 100 Boyfriends by Brontez Purnell
• Let the Record Show by Sarah Schulman
• Borealis by Aisha Sabatini Sloan
• Summer Fun by Jeanne Thornton
• No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull

National Book Awards Longlist – Fiction

Awarded to books in the US.

• If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai
• All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thamam Mathews
• Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga
• Nobody Gets Out Alive by Leigh Newman
• Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda
• The Employees by Olga Ravin
• Maria, Maria by Marytza K. Rubio
• Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
• Where You Come From by Sasa Stanisic
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
• The Town of Babylon by Alejandro Varela
• Lotus Bloom and the Afro Revolution by Sherri Winston

National Book Awards Longlist – Nonfiction

• The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Conntreras
• Bad Mexicans by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
• South to America by Imani Perry
• His Name is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Gloruminpa
• Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathern Schulz
• Victory. Stand! by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes, and Dawud Anyabwile

National Book Awards Longlist – Poetry

• Look at This Blue by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
• Golden Ax by Rio Cortez
• Balladz by Sharon Olds
• Best Barbarian by Rodger Reeves
• Rupture Tense by Jenny Xie