2022 Publishers Weekly Best Books (Awarded by Publishers Weekly)

Awards List

Comics

The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere.
(*)
James Spooner

Smahtguy: The Life and Times of Barney Frank
(*)
Eric Orner

A Career in Books: A Novel about Friends, Money, and the Occasional Duck Bun
(*)
Kate Gavino

Who Will Make the Pancakes: Five Stories
(*)
Megan Kelso

Fiction

Devil House
(*)
John Darnielle

Seasons of Purgatory
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

The Swimmers
(*)
Julie Otsuka

Scattered All Over the Earth
(*)
Yoko Tawada

The Town of Babylon
(*)
Alejandro Varela

The Candy House
(*)
Jennifer Egan

New and Selected Stories
(*)
Cristina Rivera Garza

True Biz
(*)
Sara Novic

Companion Piece
(*)
Ali Smith

Either/Or
(*)
Elif Batuman

Human Blues
(*)
Elisa Albert

Night of the Living Rez: Stories
(*)
Morgan Talty

Lessons
(*)
Ian McEwan

Living Pictures
(*)
Polina Barskova

The Village Idiot
(*)
Steve Stern

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Dinosaurs
(*)
Lydia Millet

The Sleeping Car Porter
(*)
Suzette Mayr

Dr. No
(*)
Percival Everett

Solenoid
(*)
Mircea Cartarescu

Middle Grade

Northwind
(*)
Gary Paulsen

The Ogress and the Orphans
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
(*)
Matt Phelan

The Last Mapmaker
(*)
Christina Soontornvat

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
(*)
Tae Keller

The Patron Thief of Bread
(*)
Lindsay Eagar

Twin Cities
(*)
Jose Pimienta

Alte Zachen / Old Things
(*)
Ziggy Hanaor

Black Bird, Blue Road
(*)
Sofiya Pasternack

Serwa Boateng's Guide to Vampire Hunting
(*)
Roseanne Brown

You Only Live Once, David Bravo
(*)
Mark Oshiro

The Door of No Return
(*)
Kwame Alexander

Freestyle
(*)
Gale Galligan

Frizzy
(*)
Claribel A. Ortega

A Rover's Story
(*)
Jasmine Warga

Mystery/Thriller

Targeted
(*)
Stephen Hunter

Her Perfect Twin
(*)
Sarah Bonner

Blood Sugar
(*)
Sascha Rothchild

Death and the Conjuror
(*)
Tom Mead

The Kingdoms of Savannah
(*)
George Dawes Green

Dear Little Corpses
(*)
Nicola Upson

All That's Left Unsaid
(*)
Tracey Lien

The Wheel of Doll
(*)
Jonathan Ames

Double Exposure
(*)
Ava Barry

Jackal
(*)
Erin E. Adams

Anywhere You Run
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

Blackwater Falls
(*)
Ausma Zehanat Khan

Picture Books

Where Is Bina Bear?
(*)
Mike Curato

Love in the Library
(*)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Nigel and the Moon
(*)
Antwan Eady

John's Turn
(*)
Mac Barnett

Big Truck Little Island
(*)
Chris Van Dusen

A Day for Sandcastles
(*)
JonArno Lawson

Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt?
(*)
Derick Wilder

Hot Dog
(*)
Doug Salati

The World Belonged to Us
(*)
Jacqueline Woodson

Baby Squeaks
(*)
Anne Hunter

Berry Song
(*)
Michaela Goade

Farmhouse
(*)
Sophie Blackall

NO! Said Custard the Squirrel
(*)
Sergio Ruzzier

Rick the Rock of Room 214
(*)
Julie Falatko

Sal Boat
(*)
Thyra Heder

Walter Had a Best Friend
(*)
Deborah Underwood

Romance

A Lady For a Duke
(*)
Alexis Hall

Wicked Beauty
(*)
Katee Robert

The Dead Romantics
(*)
Ashley Poston

To Catch a Raven
(*)
Beverly Jenkins

Partners in Crime
(*)
Alisha Rai

Before I Let Go
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Lonely Castle in the Mirror
(*)
Mizuki Tsujimura

Moon Witch, Spider King
(*)
Marlon James

The Hacienda
(*)
Isabel Canas

The Golden Enclaves
(*)
Naomi Novik

Leech
(*)
Hiron Ennes

The Mountain in the Sea
(*)
Ray Nayler

Ocean's Echo
(*)
Everina Maxwell

Top 10

Activities of Daily Living
(*)
Lisa Hsiao Chen

All the Lovers in the Night
(*)
Mieko Kawakami

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

The Birdcatcher
(*)
Gayl Jones

Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands
(*)
Kate Beaton

The Furrows
(*)
Namwali Serpell

Young Adult

Ain't Burned All the Bright
(*)
Jason Reynolds

I Must Betray You
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

Right Where I Left You
(*)
Julian Winters

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
(*)
Casey McQuiston

Hell Followed with Us
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

Beating Heart Baby
(*)
Lio Min

The Honeys
(*)
Ryan La Sala

As Long As the Lemon Trees Grow
(*)
Zoulfa Katouh

The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen
(*)
Isaac Blum

Rust in the Root
(*)
Justina Ireland

The Weight of Blood
(*)
Tiffany D. Jackson

The First to Die at the End
(*)
Adam Silvera

Man Made Monsters
(*)
Andrea L. Rogers

Award Categories

Comics

Fiction

Middle Grade

Mystery/Thriller

Picture Books

Romance

SF/Fantasy/Horror

Top 10

Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018