Reviews and excerpts of books that have won major book awards.

Since 2000, BookBrowse has asked its members and subscribers to select the best books published each year. Through a rigorous voting process, this shortlist is then honed down to find the BookBrowse Awards Winners.

2022 BookBrowse Awards Winners

• Best Fiction Book:
  Horse by Geraldine Brooks
  
  
• Best Nonfiction Book:
  In Love by Amy Bloom
  
  
• Best Debut:
  Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
  
  

Joseph Pulitzer, a renowned journalist, established this award in 1917. Since 1984 Pulitzer winners have received their prizes from the president of Columbia University at a luncheon in May in the rotunda of the Low Library in the presence of family members, professional associates, board members, and the faculty of the School of Journalism.

2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners Winners

• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction:
  The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction:
  Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for History:
  Cuba by Ada Ferrer
  
  Covered with Night by Nicole Eustace
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for Biography:
  Chasing Me to My Grave by Winfred Rembert
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize for Poetry:
  frank by Diane Seuss
  
  

Awarded in October each year, the Booker Prize is the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world. Until 2013 the award was open only to citizens of the Commonwealth of nations (in essence, the UK and former British colonies). As of 2014 the award is open to authors worldwide so long as their work is in English and published in the UK.

2022 Booker Prize Winners

• Booker Prize:
  The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
  
  

The Newbery Medal is awarded in January each year by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.

2023 The John Newbery Medal Winners

• Newbery Medal:
  Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson
  
  

Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature

2022 Michael Printz Award Winners

• Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature:
  Starfish by Lisa Fipps
  
  

Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization for mystery writers, professionals allied to the crime writing field, aspiring crime writers, and those who are devoted to the genre. MWA is dedicated to promoting higher regard for crime writing and recognition and respect for those who write within the genre. Each Spring, Mystery Writers of America present the Edgar® Awards, widely acknowledged to be the most prestigious awards in the genre.

2022 Edgar Awards Winners

• Edgar Award for Best Novel:
  Five Decembers by James Kestrel
  
  
• Edgar Award for Best First Novel by an American Author:
  Deer Season by Erin Flanagan
  
  
• Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original:
  Bobby March Will Live Forever by Alan Parks
  
  
• Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime:
  Last Call by Elon Green
  
  
• Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical:
  The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock by Edward White
  
  
• Edgar Award for Young Adult:
  Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
  
  

Each March, the NBCC present awards for the finest books and reviews published in English (in the USA) the previous year in six categories: Fiction, nonfiction, autobiography, biography, criticism and poetry.

2022 National Book Critics Circle Award Winners

• NBCC Award for Fiction:
  Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
  
  
• NBCC Award for Autobiography:
  Stay True by Hua Hsu
  
  

First awarded in 1950, the National Book Awards recognize the best of American literature. The Awards are announced in November.

2022 National Book Awards Winners

• National Book Award for Fiction:
  The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  
  
• National Book Award for Nonfiction:
  South to America by Imani Perry
  
  
• National Book Award for Poetry:
  Punks by John Keene
  
  
• National Book Award for Young People's Literature:
  All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
  
  
• National Book Award for Translated Literature:
  Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
  
  

The Costas were one of the UK's most prestigious book awards between 1971 and 2021. Established by Whitbread Plc in 1971, they were known as the Whitbread Awards, until being rebranded as the Costa Awards in 2006 (Costa is a UK based coffee shop chain owned by Whitbread Plc.) The awards were discontinued in early 2022.

2021 Costa Book Awards Winners

• Costa Book of The Year:
  The Kids by Hannah Lowe
  
  
• Costa First Novel Award (formerly Whitbread):
  Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
  
  
• Costa Novel Award (formerly Whitbread):
  Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller
  
  
• Costa Biography Award (formerly Whitbread):
  Fall by John Preston
  
  
• Costa Children's Book Award (formerly Whitbread):
  The Crossing by Manjeet Mann
  
  
• Costa Poetry Award:
  The Kids by Hannah Lowe
  
  

One of the most prestigious literary awards in the world, the Women’s Prize for Fiction was known as the Orange Prize for Fiction between 1996 and 2012 and the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction between 2014 and 2017. It celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing from throughout the world.

2022 Women's Prize for Fiction Winners

• Women's Prize for Fiction:
  The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki
  
  

The PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, formerly known as the Bellwether Prize for Fiction is a biennial award given by PEN America and Barbara Kingsolver to a U.S. citizen for a previously unpublished work of fiction that address issues of social justice. The award is given for a work in progress - hence the award date is often at least a year ahead of publication.

The 2021 winner is Jamila Minnicks, Moonrise Over New Jessup, which will publish in early 2022.

2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize Winners

• PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction:
  At the Edge of the Haight by Katherine Seligman