Book Awards
The B&N Children's & YA Book Award Shortlists
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These picture book titles spark the imaginations of our littlest readers while magic, myth and real-life choices appeal to our independent young readers in a wide-ranging shortlist of visual storytelling and engaging storylines.
These picture book titles spark the imaginations of our littlest readers while magic, myth and real-life choices appeal to our independent young readers in a wide-ranging shortlist of visual storytelling and engaging storylines.
The B&N Children's & YA Book Award Shortlist: Young Adult
See AllHard-hitting plotlines and complex characterization reflect the mature and intelligent publishing emerging for teens.
Hard-hitting plotlines and complex characterization reflect the mature and intelligent publishing emerging for teens.
2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year
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Lessons in Chemistry (B&N Book of the Year)
Lessons in Chemistry (B&N Book of the Year)
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Our booksellers are most proud to make Lessons in Chemistry the 2022 Barnes & Noble Book of the Year. This blockbuster debut is not only charming, funny, and whip-smart but proves that life, like science, is unpredictable.
Listen to Bonnie Garmus discuss Lessons in Chemistry on Poured Over: The B&N Podcast.
Barnes & Noble's Best Books of 2022
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2022 B&N Discover Prize Winner
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The Rabbit Hutch (B&N Discover Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)
The Rabbit Hutch (B&N Discover Prize Winner) (National Book Award Winner)
Congratulations to the 2022 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize winner, debut author Tess Gunty!
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National Book Awards
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The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch.
The National Book Awards are the nation's preeminent literary prizes, honoring outstanding Fiction, Young People's Literature, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Nonfiction. This year's fiction prize went to Tess Gunty for The Rabbit Hutch.
Booker Prize 2022 Winner
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker Prize Winner)
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (Booker Prize Winner)
The prestigious Booker Prize is given for a novel written in English. The winner for 2022 is Shehan Karunatilaka's The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, a searing satire set amid the mayhem of the Sri Lankan civil war. Read more in Our Blog.
Nobel Prize in Literature
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The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature to the French author Annie Ernaux "for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory."
Pulitzer Prizes
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The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction went to Joshua Cohen for his novel The Netanyahus.
The Pulitzer Prize presents awards in the categories of Fiction, Drama, History, Biography, Poetry, General Nonfiction, and Music. This year's Pulitzer Prize in Fiction went to Joshua Cohen for his novel The Netanyahus.
