2022 Literary Awards Finalists

By PEN America

2022 Literary Awards Finalists

The 2022 PEN America Literary Awards recognize literary excellence across fiction, nonfiction, poetry, biography, essay, science writing, translation, and more. Find your next favorite among these outstanding Finalists!

The Trees

Percival Everett

$16.00

$14.88

The Kissing Bug: A True Story of a Family, an Insect, and a...

Daisy Hernández

$27.95

Milk Blood Heat

Dantiel W Moniz

$25.00

$23.25

Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir

Rajiv Mohabir

$27.00

$25.11

Names for Light: A Family History

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

$16.00

$14.88

Curb

Divya Victor

$17.95

$16.69

White Magic

Elissa Washuta

$26.95

$25.06

Eat the Mouth That Feeds You

Carribean Fragoza

$16.95

$15.76

Give My Love to the Savages: Stories

Chris Stuck

$25.99

Dear Miss Metropolitan

Carolyn Ferrell

$27.99

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick

Honoree Fanonne Jeffers

$28.99

$26.96

Detransition, Baby

Torrey Peters

$27.00

$25.11

The Five Wounds

Kirstin Valdez Quade

$26.95

$25.06

A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance

Hanif Abdurraqib

$27.00

$25.11

Homo Irrealis: Essays

André Aciman

$27.00

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time

Teju Cole

$22.50

$20.93

These Precious Days: Essays

Ann Patchett

$26.99

$25.10

Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache from the...

Margaret Renkl

$26.00

$24.18

Yellow Rain: Poems

Mai Der Vang

$17.00

$15.81

Sho

Douglas Kearney

$18.00

$16.74

Heard-Hoard

Atsuro Riley

$20.00

Frank: Sonnets

Diane Seuss

$18.00

$16.74

Mutiny

Phillip B. Williams

$20.00

$18.60

Exhausted on the Cross

Najwan Darwish

$16.00

Everything I Don't Know

Jerzy Ficowski

$16.00

Winners were announced at the Literary Awards Ceremony on February 28, 2022 at The Town Hall in New York City.