I follow a lot of book prizes! Here I survey the 2022 award winning titles from several different book prizes across the world to let you know if they are worth reading or not. Click ‘Show More’ for info.

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Books discussed, links to prize vlogs/shortlist reacttions & purchase links:

Nobel Prize – Annie Ernaux
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Booker Prize: [ Ссылка ]
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
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International Booker Prize: [ Ссылка ]
Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
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Women's Prize for Fiction: [ Ссылка ]
The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
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National Book Award: [ Ссылка ]
(Fiction) The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
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(Translated Literature) Seven Empty Houses – Samanta Schweblin (translated by Megan McDowell)
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Pulitzer Prize
The Netanyahus – Joshua Cohen
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British Book Awards: [ Ссылка ]
(Fiction Book of the Year) Sorrow and Bliss – Meg Mason
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(Debut Fiction Book of the Year) Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
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(Pageturner Book of the Year) Small Pleasures – Clare Chambers
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Royal Society Science Book Prize: [ Ссылка ]
A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth – Henry Gee
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The British Academy Book Prize for Global Cultural Understanding: [ Ссылка ]
When Women Kill – Alia Trabucco Zeran (translated by Sophie Hughes)
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The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction
Super Infinite – Katherine Rundell
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Wainwright Prize: [ Ссылка ]
(Nature Writing) Goshawk Summer – James Aldred
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(Conservation) Eating to Extinction – Dan Saladino
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Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize: [ Ссылка ]
The Rabbit Hutch – Tess Gunty
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Orwell Prize for Political Fiction: [ Ссылка ]
Small Things Like These – Claire Keegan
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Rathbones Folio Award: [ Ссылка ]
The Magician – Colm Toibin
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Goldsmith's Prize
Diego Garcia – Natasha Soobramanien & Luke Williams
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Republic of Consciousness Prize: [ Ссылка ]
Happy Stories, Mostly – Norman Erikson Pasaribu (translated by Tiffany Tsao)
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Warwick Prize for Women in Translation
Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree (translated by Daisy Rockwell)
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Osebol – Marit Kapla (translated by Peter Graves)
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Stella Prize
Drop Bear – Evelyn Araluen
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Irish Book Awards
(Eason Novel of the Year) Trespasses – Louise Kennedy
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Giller Prize
The Sleeping Car Porter – Suzette Mayr
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Joyce Carol Oates Prize: [ Ссылка ]
Lauren Groff
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The Forward Prizes for Poetry
(Best Collection) All the Men I Never Married – Kim Moore
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(First Collection) Amnion – Stephanie Sy-Quia
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'Up Late' by Nick Laird: [ Ссылка ]


Some reviews of the books I've read:

The Years – Annie Ernaux
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida – Shehan Karunatilaka
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Tomb of Sand – Geetanjali Shree
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The Book of Form and Emptiness – Ruth Ozeki
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Open Water – Caleb Azumah Nelson
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Small Pleasures
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Small Things Like These
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