2022 Booklist Editors Choice (Awarded by ALA: The American Library Association)

Awards List

Adult

The Swimmers
(Top of the List)
Julie Otsuka

Adult: Audio

Listening Still
(Top of the List)
Anne Griffin

Picture Book

A Is for Bee
(Top of the List)
Ellen Heck

Youth

All My Rage
(Top of the List)
Sabaa Tahir

Youth: Audio

Journal of a Travelling Girl
(Top of the List)
Nadine Neema

Youth: Graphic Novel

My Aunt Is a Monster
(Top of the List)
Reimena Yee

Adult

Yonder
(*)
Jabari Asim

The Patron Saint of Second Chances
(*)
Christine Simon

True Biz
(*)
Sara Novic

By Her Own Design
(*)
Piper Huguley

Horse
(*)
Geraldine Brooks

Big Girl
(*)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
(*)
Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Mercury Pictures Presents
(*)
Anthony Marra

The Rabbit Hutch
(*)
Tess Gunty

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
(*)
James Hannaham

If I Survive You
(*)
Jonathan Escoffery

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Lark Ascending
(*)
Silas House

Liberation Day: Stories
(*)
George Saunders

Our Missing Hearts
(*)
Celeste Ng

Signal Fires
(*)
Dani Shapiro

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
(*)
Laura Warrell

Someday, Maybe
(*)
Onyi Nwabineli

The Light Pirate
(*)
Lily Brooks-Dalton

Adult Books for Young Adults

True Biz
(*)
Sara Novic

Never Been Kissed
(*)
Timothy Janovsky

The Ballad of Perilous Graves
(*)
Alex Jennings

Nightcrawling
(*)
Leila Mottley

Yerba Buena
(*)
Nina LaCour

Big Girl
(*)
Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Dark Earth
(*)
Rebecca Stott

The Ghost That Ate Us
(*)
Daniel Kraus

Other Birds
(*)
Sarah Addison Allen

Adult: Audio

The White Girl
(*)
Tony Birch

Iron Annie
(*)
Luke Cassidy

Love & Saffron
(*)
Kim Fay

The Paradox Hotel
(*)
Rob Hart

The Swimmers
(*)
Julie Otsuka

By Any Other Name
(*)
Lauren Kate

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

Bloomsbury Girls
(*)
Natalie Jenner

Last Summer on State Street
(*)
Toya Wolfe

Acts of Violet
(*)
Margarita Montimore

Any Other Family
(*)
Eleanor Brown

The Babysitter Lives
(*)
Stephen Graham Jones

The Last Karankawas
(*)
Kimberly Garza

Thank You for Listening
(*)
Julia Whelan

Carrie Soto Is Back
(*)
Taylor Jenkins Reid

Fairy Tale
(*)
Stephen King

Lucy by the Sea
(*)
Elizabeth Strout

Marple: Twelve New Mysteries
(*)
Agatha Christie

Stella Maris
(*)
Cormac McCarthy

Adult: Genre Fiction

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

Count Your Lucky Stars
(*)
Alexandria Bellefleur

The Kaiju Preservation Society
(*)
John Scalzi

Secret Identity
(*)
Alex Segura

One-Shot Harry
(*)
Gary Phillips

Sea of Tranquility
(*)
Emily St. John Mandel

The Island
(*)
Adrian McKinty

Two Nights in Lisbon
(*)
Chris Pavone

After the Lights Go Out
(*)
John Vercher

The It Girl
(*)
Ruth Ware

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

Shrines of Gaiety
(*)
Kate Atkinson

Where We End & Begin
(*)
Jane Igharo

Anywhere You Run
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

Marlowe Banks, Redesigned
(*)
Jacqueline Firkins

Picture Book

Kat Hats
(*)
Daniel Pinkwater

Mina
(*)
Matthew Forsythe

With Lots of Love
(*)
Jenny Torres Sanchez

The Depth of the Lake and the Height of the Sky
(*)
Jihyun Kim

Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle
(*)
Nina LaCour

Tiny Dino
(*)
Deborah J. Freedman

Luli and the Language of Tea
(*)
Andrea Wang

The Queen in the Cave
(*)
Julia Sarda

Together We Ride
(*)
Valerie Bolling

Berry Song
(*)
Michaela Goade

Farmhouse
(*)
Sophie Blackall

Butterfly Child
(*)
Marc Majewski

Agatha May and the Anglerfish
(*)
Nora Morrison

Youth

Love in the Library
(*)
Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Maizy Chen's Last Chance
(*)
Lisa Yee

And They Lived . . .
(*)
Steven Salvatore

Diamond Park
(*)
Phillippe Diederich

Ellen Outside the Lines
(*)
A.J. Sass

Kiss & Tell
(*)
Adib Khorram

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

Squire
(*)
Nadia Shammas

Those Kids from Fawn Creek
(*)
Erin Entrada Kelly

Worser
(*)
Jennifer Ziegler

Alone Out Here
(*)
Riley Redgate

Different Kinds of Fruit
(*)
Kyle Lukoff

Heartbreak Symphony
(*)
Laekan Zea Kemp

Little Monarchs
(*)
Jonathan Case

Nothing Burns as Bright as You
(*)
Ashley Woodfolk

Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone
(*)
Tae Keller

Only on the Weekends
(*)
Dean Atta

The Patron Thief of Bread
(*)
Lindsay Eagar

Swim Team
(*)
Johnnie Christmas

Unfadeable
(*)
Maurice Broaddus

Hell Followed with Us
(*)
Andrew Joseph White

This Place Is Still Beautiful
(*)
XiXi Tian

All Four Quarters of the Moon
(*)
Shirley Marr

Our Crooked Hearts
(*)
Melissa Albert

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing
(*)
Deb Caletti

Lily and the Night Creatures
(*)
Nick Lake

Self-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix
(*)
Anna-Marie McLemore

Man Made Monsters
(*)
Andrea L. Rogers

Oh, Sal
(*)
Kevin Henkes

A Rover's Story
(*)
Jasmine Warga

My Aunt Is a Monster
(*)
Reimena Yee

Torch
(*)
Lyn Miller-Lachmann

Youth: Audio

Coraline
(*)
Neil Gaiman

The Demon in the Wood
(*)
Leigh Bardugo

The Boy Who Crashed to Earth
(*)
Judd Winick

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

I Must Betray You
(*)
Ruta Sepetys

Gallant
(*)
V.E. Schwab

Live, Laugh, Kidnap
(*)
Gabby Noone

Coming Up Cuban
(*)
Sonia Manzano

Youth: Graphic Novel

Sir Ladybug
(*)
Corey R. Tabor

Award Categories

Adult

Adult Books for Young Adults

Adult: Audio

Adult: Genre Fiction

Adult: Graphic Novel

Youth

Youth: Audio

Youth: Graphic Novel

Youth: Middle Readers

Youth: Older Readers

Youth: Younger Readers

Award Years

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