2022 Amazon Editors' Picks (Awarded by amazon.com)

Awards List

Children's Books

The Door of No Return
(Winner)
Kwame Alexander

Here We Are
(*)
Oliver Jeffers

Rumble, Rumble, Dinosaur
(*)
Katrina Charman

I'm Not Scared, You're Scared
(*)
Seth Meyers

Knight Owl
(*)
Christopher Denise

The Ogress and the Orphans
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

Skandar and the Unicorn Thief
(*)
A.F. Steadman

Little Blue Truck Makes A Friend
(*)
Alice Schertle

The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster!
(*)
Mo Willems

Wildoak
(*)
C.C. Harrington

Grumpy Monkey Who Threw That?
(*)
Suzanne Lang

Sisterhood of Sleuths
(*)
Jennifer Chambliss Bertman

The Three Billy Goats Gruff
(*)
Mac Barnett

Two Degrees
(*)
Alan M. Gratz

Diper Overlode
(*)
Jeff Kinney

Farming Strong, All Year Long
(*)
Sherri Duskey Rinker

The Greatest in the World!
(*)
Ben Clanton

Collaborations
(*)
Dav Pilkey

Literature & Fiction

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
(Winner)
Gabrielle Zevin

Reminders of Him
(*)
Colleen Hoover

Lessons in Chemistry
(*)
Bonnie Garmus

Memphis
(*)
Tara M. Stringfellow

Take My Hand
(*)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Young Mungo
(*)
Douglas Stuart

Remarkably Bright Creatures
(*)
Shelby Van Pelt

Nightcrawling
(*)
Leila Mottley

NSFW
(*)
Isabel Kaplan

All The Broken Places
(*)
John Boyne

Carrie Soto Is Back
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Two Lives of Sara
(*)
Catherine Adel West

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Mad Honey
(*)
Jodi Picoult; Jennifer Finney Boylan

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

Signal Fires
(*)
Dani Shapiro

The Winners
(*)
Fredrik Backman

Now Is Not the Time to Panic
(*)
Kevin Wilson

We All Want Impossible Things
(*)
Catherine Newman

We Are the Light
(*)
Matthew Quick

Mysteries & Thrillers

City on Fire
(Winner)
Don Winslow

Forsaken Country
(*)
Allen Eskens

The Maid
(*)
Nita Prose

The Overnight Guest
(*)
Heather Gudenkauf

The Violin Conspiracy
(*)
Brendan Slocumb

The Golden Couple
(*)
Greer Hendricks; Sarah Pekkanen

What Happened to the Bennetts
(*)
Lisa Scottoline

The Hacienda
(*)
Isabel Canas

Hidden Pictures
(*)
Jason Rekulak

The Housemaid
(*)
Freida McFadden

Carolina Moonset
(*)
Matt Goldman

The Lies I Tell
(*)
Julie Clark

Winter Work
(*)
Dan Fesperman

All Good People Here
(*)
Ashley Flowers

Shutter
(*)
Ramona Emerson

The Butcher and The Wren
(*)
Alaina Urquhart

Killers of a Certain Age
(*)
Deanna Raybourn

Bleeding Heart Yard
(*)
Elly Griffiths

Lavender House
(*)
Lev A.C. Rosen

Anywhere You Run
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

Romance

Book Lovers
(Winner)
Emily Henry

Reminders of Him
(*)
Colleen Hoover

Part of Your World
(*)
Abby Jimenez

By the Book
(*)
Jasmine Guillory

A Lady's Guide to Fortune-Hunting
(*)
Sophie Irwin

Set on You
(*)
Amy Lea

Nora Goes Off Script
(*)
Annabel Monaghan

A Proposal They Can't Refuse
(*)
Natalie Cana

The Bodyguard
(*)
Katherine Center

The Hookup Plan
(*)
Farrah Rochon

Lucy Checks In
(*)
Dee Ernst

Small Town, Big Magic
(*)
Hazel Beck

Thank You for Listening
(*)
Julia Whelan

Dreamland
(*)
Nicholas Sparks

When in Rome
(*)
Sarah Adams

It Starts with Us
(*)
Colleen Hoover

On the Hustle
(*)
Adriana Herrera

Paris Daillencourt Is About to Crumble
(*)
Alexis Hall

Where We End & Begin
(*)
Jane Igharo

Two Wrongs Make a Right
(*)
Chloe Liese

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fairy Tale
(Winner)
Stephen King

The Atlas Six
(*)
Olivie Blake

Daughter of the Moon Goddess
(*)
Sue Lynn Tan

How High We Go in the Dark
(*)
Sequoia Nagamatsu

The Starless Crown
(*)
James Rollins

The Kaiju Preservation Society
(*)
John Scalzi

The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer
(*)
Janelle Monae

Sea of Tranquility
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

Book of Night
(*)
Holly Black

Siren Queen
(*)
Nghi Vo

When Women Were Dragons
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

The Final Strife
(*)
Saara El-Arifi

The Measure
(*)
Nikki Erlick

Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence
(*)
R.F. Kuang

The Book Eaters
(*)
Sunyi Dean

Other Birds
(*)
Sarah Addison Allen

The Mountain in the Sea
(*)
Ray Nayler

Spells for Forgetting
(*)
Adrienne Young

The Lost Metal
(*)
Brandon Sanderson

Teen & Young Adult

Our Crooked Hearts
(Winner)
Melissa Albert

I Must Betray You
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

All My Rage
(*)
Sabaa Tahir

Hotel Magnifique
(*)
Emily J. Taylor

All the Seas of the World
(*)
Guy Gavriel Kay

Family of Liars
(*)
E. Lockhart

I Kissed Shara Wheeler
(*)
Casey McQuiston

The Final Gambit
(*)
Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Long Live the Pumpkin Queen
(*)
Shea Ernshaw

All of Our Demise
(*)
Amanda Foody; Christine Lynn Herman

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

Belladonna
(*)
Adalyn Grace

Nothing More to Tell
(*)
Karen M. McManus

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

Foul Lady Fortune
(*)
Chloe Gong

Children of Ragnarok
(*)
Cinda Williams Chima

Five Survive
(*)
Holly Jackson

Award Categories

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Mysteries & Thrillers

Mysteries & Thrillers: Series

Romance

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Teen & Young Adult

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019