2022 Library Journal Best Books (Awarded by Library Journal)

Awards List

Crime Fiction

Geiger
(*)
Gustaf Skoerdeman

Last Call at the Nightingale
(*)
Katharine Schellman

The Woman in the Library
(*)
Sulari Gentill

Alias Emma
(*)
Ava Glass

Shutter
(*)
Ramona Emerson

Killers of a Certain Age
(*)
Deanna Raybourn

Lavender House
(*)
Lev A.C. Rosen

Anywhere You Run
(*)
Wanda M. Morris

A World of Curiosities
(*)
Louise Penny

Graphic Novels

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr
(*)
Ram V

Nice House on the Lake Vol. 1
(*)
Jame Tynion IV

What is Home, Mum?
(*)
Sabba Khan

Talk to My Back
(*)
Yamada Murasaki

Birds of Maine
(*)
Michael DeForge

One Beautiful Spring Day
(*)
Jim Woodring

Untitled ComicArts
(*)
Abrams Books

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

Step By Bloody Step
(*)
Si Spurrier

Upside
(*)
Dawn Jason

Horror

Manhunt
(*)
Gretchen Felker-Martin

The Fervor
(*)
Alma Katsu

The Hacienda
(*)
Isabel Canas

The Ghost That Ate Us
(*)
Daniel Kraus

The Pallbearers' Club
(*)
Paul Tremblay

What Moves the Dead
(*)
T. Kingfisher

The Devil Takes You Home
(*)
Gabino Iglesias

Breakable Things
(*)
Cassandra Khaw

Such Sharp Teeth
(*)
Rachel Harrison

White Horse
(*)
Erika T. Wurth

Literary Fiction

The Town of Babylon
(*)
Alejandro Varela

The Candy House
(*)
Jennifer Egan

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
(*)
Noor Naga

Young Mungo
(*)
Douglas Stuart

Trust
(*)
Hernan Diaz

Brother Alive
(*)
Zain Khalid

Properties of Thirst
(*)
Marianne Wiggins

Lessons
(*)
Ian McEwan

Demon Copperhead
(*)
Barbara Kingsolver

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
(*)
Laura Warrell

Pop Fiction

Four Treasures of the Sky
(*)
Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Take My Hand
(*)
Dolen Perkins-Valdez

Oleander City
(*)
Matt Bondurant

Elsewhere
(*)
Alexis Schaitkin

Mademoiselle Revolution
(*)
Zoe Sivak

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
(*)
Jamie Ford

Happyish
(*)
Jeanette Escudero

Miss del Rio
(*)
Barbara Mujica

Small Game
(*)
Blair Braverman

Romance

Delilah Green Doesn't Care
(*)
Ashley Herring Blake

Book Lovers
(*)
Emily Henry

A Lady For a Duke
(*)
Alexis Hall

Honey and Spice
(*)
Bolu Babalola

A Fearless Heart
(*)
Elizabeth Cole

Heartbreaker
(*)
Sarah MacLean

The Hookup Plan
(*)
Farrah Rochon

The Holiday Trap
(*)
Roan Parrish

Before I Let Go
(*)
Kennedy Ryan

The Boxing Baroness
(*)
Minerva Spencer

SF/Fantasy

The Spare Man
(*)
Mary Robinette Kowal

Daughter of the Moon Goddess
(*)
Sue Lynn Tan

Braking Day
(*)
Adam Oyebanji

The Stardust Thief
(*)
Chelsea Abdullah

When Women Were Dragons
(*)
Kelly Barnhill

A Prayer for the Crown-Shy
(*)
Becky Chambers

The Book Eaters
(*)
Sunyi Dean

The Bruising of Qilwa
(*)
Naseem Jamnia

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
(*)
Sangu Mandanna

The Witch and the Tsar
(*)
Olesya Salnikova Gilmore

Short Stories

Blank Pages
(*)
Bernard Maclaverty

Heartbroke
(*)
Chelsea Bieker

Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories
(*)
Leigh Newman

You Have a Friend in 10A: Stories
(*)
Maggie Shipstead

Ghost Lover: Stories
(*)
Lisa Taddeo

Learning to Talk: Stories
(*)
Hilary Mantel

Stories from The Tenants Downstairs
(*)
Sidik Fofana

Bliss Montage: Stories
(*)
Ling Ma

If I Survive You
(*)
Jonathan Escoffery

Liberation Day: Stories
(*)
George Saunders

World Literature

The Books of Jacob
(*)
Olga Tokarczuk

Seasons of Purgatory
(*)
Shahriar Mandanipour

Scattered All Over the Earth
(*)
Yoko Tawada

Bad Girls
(*)
Camila Villada

Life Ceremony: Stories
(*)
Sayaka Murata

The Ghetto Within
(*)
Santiago Amigorena

The Dreamtime
(*)
Mstyslav Chernov

Ghost Town
(*)
Kevin Chen

Nights of Plague
(*)
Orhan Pamuk

Not Russian
(*)
Mikhail Shevelev

Award Categories

Crime Fiction

Graphic Novels

Horror

Literary Fiction

Pop Fiction

Romance

SF/Fantasy

Short Stories

World Literature

Award Years

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018