Kirkus named the finalists for its 2022 Kirkus Prizes, with the winners to be announced on October 27:
Fiction
Scary Monsters, by Michelle de Kretser (Catapult)
Trust, by Hernan Diaz (Riverhead)
God’s Children Are Little Broken Things, by Arinze Ifeakandu (A Public Space Books)
Mecca, by Susan Straight (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Scattered All Over the Earth, by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)
The Books of Jacob, by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft (Riverhead)
Nonfiction
By Hands Now Known, by Margaret A. Burnham (Norton)
The Facemaker, by Lindsey Fitzharris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
The 1619 Project, by Nikole Hannah-Jones, Caitlin Roper, Ilena Silverman, and Jake Silverstein (One World/Random House)
These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett (Harper/HarperCollins)
In Sensorium, by Tanaïs (Harper/HarperCollins)
Young Readers
Picture Books:
Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost, by Betina Birkjær, illustrated by Anna Margrethe Kjærgaard, translated by Sinéad Quirke Køngerskov (Enchanted Lion)
The Year We Learned To Fly, by Jacqueline Woodson, illustrated by Rafael López (Nancy Paulsen Books/Penguin)
Middle Grade:
The Golden Hour, by Niki Smith (Little, Brown)
The Troubled Girls of Dragomir Academy, by Anne Ursu (Walden Pond Press/HarperCollins)
Young Adult:
Himawari House, by Harmony Becker (First Second/Macmillan)
How You Grow Wings, by Rimma Onoseta (Algonquin)
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