Nobel Prize in Literature
- Annie Ernaux (Nobel Laureate, 2022)
Pulitzer Prize - Fiction
- The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen (Winner)
- Monkey Boy by Francisco Goldman (Finalist)
- Palmares by Gayl Jones (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - General Non-Fiction
- Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City by Andrea Elliott (Winner)
- Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back from Extremism by Carla Power (Finalist)
- The Family Roe: An American Story by Joshua Prager (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - History
- Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by Nicole Eustace (Winner)
- Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer (Winner)
- Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Kate Masur (Finalist)
Pulitzer Prize - Biography or Autobiography
- Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert as told to Erin I. Kelly (Winner)
- The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women and Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (Finalist)
- Pessoa: A Biography by Richard Zenith (Finalist)
National Book Award - Fiction
- The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (Winner)
- The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones (Finalist)
- The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (Finalist)
- All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Finalist)
National Book Award - Non-Fiction
- South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry (Winner)
- The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke (Finalist)
- Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen (Finalist)
- The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras (Finalist)
- His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa (Finalist)
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine (Winner)
- Radiant Fugitives by Nawaaz Ahmed (Finalist)
- The President and the Frog by Carolina De Robertis (Finalist)
- Dear Miss Metropolitan by Carolyn Ferrell (Finalist)
- How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue (Finalist)
Booker Prize
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka (Winner)
- Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo (Finalist)
- The Trees by Percival Everett (Finalist)
- Treacle Walker by Alan Garner (Finalist)
- Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan (Finalist)
- Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout (Finalist)
Women's Prize for Fiction
- The Book of Form & Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki (Winner)
- The Bread the Devil Knead by Lisa Allen-Agostini (Finalist)
- The Sentence by Louise Erdrich (Finalist)
- Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason (Finalist)
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak (Finalist)
- Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead (Finalist)
Edgar Awards - Best Novel
- Five Decembers by James Kestrel (Winner)
- The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen (Finalist)
- Razorblade Tears by S.A. Cosby (Finalist)
- How Lucky by Will Leitch (Finalist)
- No One Will Miss Her by Kat Rosenfield (Finalist)
Edgar Awards - Best First Novel
- Deer Season by Erin Flanagan (Winner)
- Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian (Finalist)
- Suburban Dicks by Fabian Nicieza (Finalist)
- What Comes After by JoAnne Tompkins (Finalist)
- The Damage by Caitlin Wahrer (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Fiction
- Trust by Hernan Diaz (Winner)
- Scary Monsters by Michelle de Kretser (Finalist)
- God's Children Are Little Broken Things: Stories by Arinze Ifeakandu (Finalist)
- Mecca by Susan Straight (Finalist)
- Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada (Finalist)
- The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Finalist)
Kirkus Prize - Non-Fiction
- In Sensorium: Notes For My People by Tanaïs (Winner)
- By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham (Finalist)
- The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris (Finalist)
- The 1619 Project edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones, et al (Finalist)
- These Precious Days by Ann Patchett (Finalist)
- An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong (Finalist)
Bonus Picks
- Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
- Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
- True Biz by Sara Nović (2023 Reading Across Rhode Island selection)