2022 Awards

for books published in 2021

Fiction — Winners

  • Libertie by Kaitlyn Greenidge (Algonquin)
    © Syreeta McFadden

  • The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozecki (Viking)
    © Danielle Tait

Fiction — Finalists

  • Something Wild by Hanna Halperin (Viking)

  • The Gods of Green County by Mary Elizabeth Pope (Blair)

Non-Fiction — Winner

  • American Made by Farah Stockman (Random House)

Non-Fiction — Finalists

  • The Broken Constitution by Noah Feldman (MacMillan)

  • Religion and the Rise of Capitalism by Benjamin Friedman (Penguin)

  • The Transcendentalists and their World by Robert Gross (Farrar Strauss Giroux)

  • Nine Days by Stephen and Paul Kendrick (Farrar Strauss Giroux)

Poetry — Winner

  • It Isn’t a Ghost if it Lives in your Chest by Joan Houlihan (Four Way Books)

Poetry — Finalist

  • Winter Recipes from the Collective by Louise Glück (MacMillan)

Young Readers— Winner

  • Born Behind Bars by Padma Venkatraman (Nancy Paulson Books)

Young Readers— Finalists

  • Time for Bed, Old House by Janet Costa Bates (Candlewick)

  • The Leaf Detective by Heather Lang (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers)

  • New List Item

    Welcome Back, Maple Mehta-Cohen by Kate McGovern (Candlewick)

2022 Discovery Award: Young Adult Contest Winners