Congratulations to the 2022 Kirkus Prize finalists

Congratulations to the finalists for the 2022 Kirkus Prize!

One book each from the fiction, nonfiction, and young readers' literature categories will earn its author $50,000 in October.

This year, Kirkus evaluated over 1,400 books to generate the following list of award 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, written by Yoko Tawada and translated by Margaret Mitsutani

• The Books of Jacob, written by Olga Tokarczuk and translated by Jennifer Croft

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, written by Betina Birkjær, illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard, and translated by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov

• The Year We Learned To Fly, written by Jacqueline Woodson and illustrated by Rafael López

• 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