2022 ALA Notable Books (Awarded by American Library Association)

Awards List

Children

Too Small Tola
(*)
Atinuke

Sona Sharma, Very Best Big Sister
(*)
Chitra Soundar

Amari and the Night Brothers
(*)
B.B. Alston

Eyes That Kiss in the Corners
(*)
Joanna Ho

I Dream of Popo
(*)
Livia Blackburne

Legacy
(*)
Nikki Grimes

Outside, Inside
(*)
Leuyen Pham

Over the Shop
(*)
JonArno Lawson

Root Magic
(*)
Eden Royce

The Sea in Winter
(*)
Christine Day

Ten Beautiful Things
(*)
Molly Beth Griffin

Unlikely Friends
(*)
Norm Feuti

While I Was Away
(*)
Waka T. Brown

Ancestor Approved
(*)
Cynthia Leitich Smith

Don't Hug Doug (He Doesn't Like It)
(*)
Carrie Finison

The In-Between
(*)
Rebecca K.S. Ansari

Mel Fell
(*)
Corey R. Tabor

Milo Imagines the World
(*)
Matt De La Pena

My First Day
(*)
Phung Nguyen Quang

Osnat and Her Dove
(*)
Sigal Samuel

A Place to Hang the Moon
(*)
Kate Albus

Red, White, and Whole
(*)
Rajani LaRocca

Amber and Clay
(*)
Laura Amy Schlitz

Boy, Everywhere
(*)
A.M. Dassu

Dawn Raid
(*)
Pauline Vaeluaga Smith

Fox at Night
(*)
Corey R. Tabor

Laxmi's Mooch
(*)
Shelly Anand

The Leak
(*)
Kate Reed Petty

The Lost Package
(*)
Richard Ho

The One Thing You'd Save
(*)
Linda Sue Park

Sato the Rabbit
(*)
Yuki Ainoya

Someone Has to Build the Dream
(*)
Lisa Wheeler

Starfish
(*)
Lisa Fipps

Amira's Picture Day
(*)
Reem Faruqi

Cece Rios and the Desert of Souls
(*)
Kaela Rivera

I Sang You Down from the Stars
(*)
Tasha Spillett-Sumner

In My Mosque
(*)
M.O. Yuksel

Sunrise Summer
(*)
Matthew Swanson

Too Bright to See
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

Watercress
(*)
Andrea Wang

The Wonder Walkers
(*)
Micha Archer

Alaina and the Great Play
(*)
Eloise Greenfield

A Day for Rememberin'
(*)
Leah Henderson

Have You Ever Seen a Flower?
(*)
Shawn Harris

Healer of the Water Monster
(*)
Brian Young

How to Become a Planet
(*)
Nicole Melleby

Thanks a Lot, Universe
(*)
Chad Lucas

When Lola Visits
(*)
Michelle Sterling

Wishes
(*)
Muon Thi Van

The Cot in the Living Room
(*)
Hilda Eunice Burgos

The Legend of Auntie Po
(*)
Shing Yin Khor

Except Antarctica
(*)
Todd Sturgell

Not Little
(*)
Maya Myers

Six Crimson Cranes
(*)
Elizabeth Lim

Temple Alley Summer
(*)
Sachiko Kashiwaba

Ten Thousand Tries
(*)
Amy Makechnie

Boogie Boogie, Y'all
(*)
C.G. Esperanza

The First Blade of Sweetgrass
(*)
Suzanne Greenlaw

The Little Wooden Robot and the Log Princess
(*)
Tom Gauld

The Most Beautiful Story Brynjulf
(*)
Jung Tjonn

A Song of Frutas
(*)
Margarita Engle

What I Am
(*)
Divya Srinivasan

Bad Sister
(*)
Charise Mericle Harper

Barefoot Dreams of Petra Luna
(*)
Alda P. Dobbs

Borders
(*)
Thomas King

Bright Star
(*)
Yuyi Morales

How to Find What You're Not Looking For
(*)
Veera Hiranandani

I Am Smoke
(*)
Merce Lopez Ascanoio

Let Me Fix You a Plate
(*)
Elizabeth Lilly

The Longest Storm
(*)
Dan Yaccarino

May Your Life Be Deliciosa
(*)
Michael Genhart

My Two Border Towns
(*)
David Bowles

Nothing Fits a Dinosaur
(*)
Jonathan Fenske

Survivor Tree
(*)
Marcie Colleen

The Beatryce Prophecy
(*)
Kate DiCamillo

The Last Cuentista
(*)
Donna Barba Higuera

Playing the Cards You're Dealt
(*)
Varian Johnson

Recognize!
(*)
Wade Hudson

Salt Magic
(*)
Hope Larson

Vamos! Let's Cross the Bridge
(*)
Raul the Third

The Big Bath House
(*)
Kyo Maclear

Born on the Water
(*)
Nikole Hannah-Jones

Dream Street
(*)
Tricia Elam Walker

In the Meadow of Fantasies
(*)
Hadi Mohammadi

Room for Everyone
(*)
Naaz Khan

A Snake Falls to Earth
(*)
Darcie Little Badger

Soul Food Sunday
(*)
Winsome Bingham

Coffee, Snowdrop, Rabbit, Lost
(*)
Betina Birkjaer

I Hop
(*)
Joe Cepeda

Fiction

Klara and the Sun
(*)
Kazuo Ishiguro

The Five Wounds
(*)
Kirstin Valdez Quade

Hell of a Book
(*)
Jason Mott

Afterparties: Stories
(*)
Anthony Veasna So

Gordo
(*)
Jaime Cortez

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
(*)
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

Matrix
(*)
Lauren Groff

The Wrong End of the Telescope
(*)
Rabih Alameddine

Cloud Cuckoo Land
(*)
Anthony Doerr

When We Cease to Understand the World
(*)
Benjamin Labatut

Painting Time
(*)
Maylis De Kerangal

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