Nobel Prize in Literature
- Abdulrazak Gurnah (Nobel Laureate, 2021)
Pulitzer Prize - Fiction
- The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich (Winner)
- A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth by Daniel Mason (Finalist)
- Telephone by Percival Everett (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - General Non-Fiction
- Wilmington's Lie: The Murderous Coup of 1898 and the Rise of White Supremacy by David Zucchino (Winner)
- Minor Feelings: An Asian-American Reckoning by Cathy Park Hong (Finalist)
- Yellow Bird: Oil, Murder, and a Woman's Search for Justice in Indian Country by Sierra Crane Murdoch (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - History
- Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America by Marcia Chatelain (Winner)
- The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini (Finalist)
- The Three Cornered War: The Union, The Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West by Megan Kate Nelson (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography
- The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X by Les Payne and Tamara Payne (Winner)
- Red Comet: The Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath by Heather Clark (Finalist)
- Stranger in Shogun's City: A Japanese Woman and Her World by Amy Stanley (Finalist)
National Book Award - Fiction
- Hell of a Book by Jason Mott (Winner)
- Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (Finalist)
- Matrix by Lauren Groff (Finalist)
- The Prophets by Robert Jones Jordan (Finalist)
- Zorrie by Laird Hunt (Finalist)
National Book Award - Non-Fiction
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Winner)
- Covered With Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace (Finalist)
- A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib (Finalist)
- Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains by Lucas Bessire (Finalist)
- Tastes Like War: A Memoir by Grace M. Cho (Finalist)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- The Secret Lives of Church Ladies by Deesha Philyaw (Winner)
- Disappear, Doppelganger, Disappear by Matthew Salesses (Finalist)
- The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe (Finalist)
- Mother, Daughter, Widow, Wife by Robin Wasserman (Finalist)
- Scattered Lights by Steve Wiegenstein (Finalist)
Booker Prize
- The Promise by Damon Galgut (Winner)
- Bewilderment by Richard Powers (Finalist)
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Finalist)
- The Fortune Men by Nadifa Mohamed (Finalist)
- No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Finalist)
- A Passage North by Anuk Arudpragasam (Finalist)
Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Winner)
- How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones (Finalist)
- No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood (Finalist)
- Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi (Finalist)
- Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller (Finalist)
- The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett (Finalist)
Edgar Awards - Best Novel
- Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line by Deepa Anappara (Winner)
- Before She Was Helen by Caroline B. Cooney (Finalist)
- The Distant Dead by Heather Young (Finalist)
- The Missing American by Kwei Quartey (Finalist)
- These Women by Ivy Pochoda (Finalist)
- Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (Finalist)
Edgar Awards - Best First Novel
- Please See Us by Caitlin Mullin (Winner)
- Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas (Finalist)
- Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel (Finalist)
- Murder in Old Bombay by Nev March (Finalist)
- Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Fiction
- Harrow by Joy Williams (Winner)
- Bolla by Pajtim Statovci (Finalist)
- The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enríquez (Finalist)
- Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead (Finalist)
- The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (Finalist)
- My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Non-Fiction
- Punch Me Up to the Gods by Brian Broome (Winner)
- All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles (Finalist)
- Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico by Juan Villoro (Finalist)
- Lightning Flowers: My Journey To Uncover the Cost of Saving a Life by Katherine E. Standefer (Finalist)
- People Love Dead Jews: Reports From a Haunted Present by Dara Horn (Finalist)
- Seek You: A Journey Through American Loneliness by Kristen Radtke (Finalist)
2022 Reading Across Rhode Island
- The Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley