The winners of the 2022 Kirkus Prize were announced on October 27th in a hybrid ceremony at the Austin Central Library in Austin, Texas, hosted by Kirkus Media CEO Meg LaBorde Kuehn and streamed live on YouTube.

The Kirkus Prize was created in 2014 to celebrate the discerning, thoughtful criticism that Kirkus Reviews has contributed to both the publishing industry and readers at large since it was founded in 1933. For more information about Kirkus Reviews and the Kirkus Prize, please click here.
 

2022 Winners

FICTION

• TRUST by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead)

 
NONFICTION

• IN SENSORIUM: Notes for My People, by Tanaïs (Harper)

 
YOUNG READERS’ LITERATURE

• HIMAWARI HOUSE by Harmony Becker (First Second/Macmillan)
   

2022 Finalists

FICTION

• SCARY MONSTERS by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult)
• TRUST by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead)
• GOD'S CHILDREN ARE LITTLE BROKEN THINGS by Arinze Ifeakandu (A Public Space Books)
• MECCA by Susan Straight (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• SCATTERED ALL OVER THE EARTH by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)
• THE BOOKS OF JACOB by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)

 
NONFICTION

• BY HANDS NOW KNOWN: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners, by Margaret A. Burnham (Norton)
• THE FACEMAKER: A Visionary Surgeon’s Battle To Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, by Lindsey Fitzharris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• THE 1619 PROJECT: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman and Jake Silverstein (One World)
• THESE PRECIOUS DAYS: Essays, by Ann Patchett (Harper)
• IN SENSORIUM: Notes for My People, by Tanaïs (Harper)
• AN IMMENSE WORLD: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, by Ed Yong (Random House)

 
YOUNG READERS’ LITERATURE
 
Picture Books

• COFFEE, RABBIT, SNOWDROP, LOST written by Betina Birkjær, illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard, translated by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov (Enchanted Lion)
• THE YEAR WE LEARNED TO FLY written by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin)

Middle Grade

• THE GOLDEN HOUR by Niki Smith (Little, Brown)
• THE TROUBLED GIRLS OF DRAGOMIR ACADEMY by Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins)

Young Adult

• HIMAWARI HOUSE by Harmony Becker (First Second/Macmillan)
• HOW YOU GROW WINGS by Rimma Onoseta (Algonquin)