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Award Winning Books of 2022 December 2022 |
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The turnout : a novel
by Megan Abbott
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller
When a suspicious accident occurs at their family-run ballet studio just at the onset of the annual performance of The Nutcracker, sisters Dara and Marie Durant find their delicate balance threatened by an interloper.
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Cajun kiss of death
by Ellen Byron
Agatha Award for Best Contemporary Novel
After an arrogant celebrity chef loses his new restaurant to arson, bed and breakfast owner Maggie Crozat steps in to help the prime suspect, her friend JJ, in the seventh novel of the series following Murder in the Bayou Boneyard.
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A master of djinn
by P. Djèlí Clark
Nebula Award
In 1912 Cairo, a new world where the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities maintains an uneasy peace, the Ministry's youngest agent, Fatima, must stop an imposter who threatens to tear apart the very fabric of this new Egyptian society.
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Razorblade tears
by S. A. Cosby
International Thriller Writers for Best Hardcover Novel
When his son Isiah and his white husband, Derek, are murdered, ex-con Ike Randolph bands together with Derek's father, another ex-con, to rain down vengeance upon those who hurt their boys while confronting their own prejudices about each other and their own sons.
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The secret keepers of Old Depot Grocery
by Amanda Cox
Christy Award for Book of the Year
For decades, three generations of women of Old Depot Grocery have been keeping secrets from each other. When Sarah returns home with hopes of running the store, the long-buried past will be brought into the light and threaten not only to destroy the family business but sever the family ties.
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Death at Greenway : a novel
by Lori Rader-Day
Agatha Award for Best Historical Novel
After a mistake at a London hospital leads to her dismissal as a nurse trainee, Bridey Kelly moves to Greenway House, the beloved holiday home of Agatha Christie, and investigates when a body washes ashore.
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The love songs of W.E.B. Du Bois : a novel
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
National Book Critics Circle - Fiction Award
To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family’s past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself.
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My heart is a chainsaw
by Stephen Graham Jones, Blackfeet
Bram Stoker Award
Protected by horror movies—especially the ones where the masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them—Jade Daniels, an angry, half-Indian outcast, pulls us into her dark mind when blood actually starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake.
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The seven moons of Maali Almeida : a novel
by Shehan Karunatilaka
Booker Prize Winner
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida--war photographer, gambler, and closet queen--has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial visa office. His dismembered body is sinking in the serene Beira Lake and he has no idea who killed him. In a country where scores are settled by death squads, suicide bombers, and hired goons, the list of suspects is depressingly long, as the ghouls and ghosts with grudges who cluster round can attest. But even in the afterlife, time is running out for Maali. He has seven moons to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them to the photos that will rock Sri Lanka.
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Deep Wheel Orcadia
by Harry Josephine Giles
Arthur C. Clarke Award
Deep Wheel Orcadia is a magical first: a science fiction verse novel written in the Orkney dialect. This unique adventure in minority language poetry comes with a parallel translation into playful and vivid English, so the reader will miss no nuance of the original. The rich and varied cast weaves a compelling, lyrical, and effortlessly readable story around place and belonging, work and economy, generation and gender politics, love and desire.
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The rabbit hutch : a novel
by Tess Gunty
National Book Award
Set in the post-industrial Midwest, this story of loneliness and community, entrapment and freedom, follows Blandine, who lives with three other teens in a run-down apartment building known as the Rabbit Hutch, as she embarks on a quest for transcendence that culminates in a shocking act of violence.
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Pure colour
by Sheila Heti
Governor General's Literary Award (Canada)
With the world coming apart at the seams, Mira, when her beloved father dies, and his spirit passes into her, becomes a leaf on a tree, but being alive is a problem that cannot be solved, forcing her to decide whether or not to return to a human world.
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Five Decembers
by James Kestrel
Edgar Allan Poe Award
As the Japanese fleet heads undetected towards Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Honolulu police detective Joe McGrady is assigned to a homicide case that will take him across the Pacific and change his life forever.
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Arsenic and adobo
by Mia P. Manansala
Agatha Award for Best First Novel
Returning home to help save her Tita Rosie’s failing restaurant, Lila Macapagal is shocked when her ex-boyfriend, a notoriously nasty food critic, dies suddenly, moments after they had a confrontation, leaving her the only suspect.
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A desolation called peace
by Arkady Martine
Hugo Award for Best Novel
A space-opera sequel to the Hugo Award-winning A Memory Called Empire finds a desperate Fleet Captain Nine Hibiscus attempting diplomacy with the mysterious and hostile alien armada on the edge of Teixcalaanli space.
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The book of form and emptiness
by Ruth Ozeki
Women's Prize for Fiction
When he begins hearing voices one year after his father’s death, 13-year-old Benny Oh, seeking refuge in the library, meets a colorful cast of characters, including his very own Book, a talking thing, who narrates Benny’s life and teaches him to listen to the things that truly matter.
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Seven empty houses
by Samanta Schweblin
National Book Award for Translated Literature
Published for the first time in English, an author at the forefront of a new generation of Latin American writers presents seven stories in which seven houses are devoid of love or life or furniture, of people or the truth or of memories, but something always creeps back in.
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Tomb of sand : a novel
by Geetanjali Shre
International Booker Prize for Translated Fiction
In Northern India, when her grandson brings her a seemingly magical cane to lift her spirits after the death of her husband, 80-year-old Ma, with a new lease on life, embarks on a series of adventures that turn the familys understanding of themselves upside down.
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The Jasmine throne
by Tasha Suri
World Fantasy Awards for Novel
When Malini, trapped in Hirana, an ancient cliffside temple that was once the revered source of the magical deathless waters, witnesses her servant’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled — and the course of a kingdom is forever changed.
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The art of losing
by Alice Zeniter
International Dublin Award
The Algerian-French daughter of a man who claims he does not remember the past discovers her heritage when her grandmothers return to their native home reveals their family's secret past and the inescapable legacies of colonialism. Translated by Frank Wynne.
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