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British Book Awards 2022
The 2022 British Book Awards went to When the Sky Falls by Phil Earle (Children's Fiction Book of the Year), Hey You! curated by Dapo Adeola (Children's Illustrated Book of the Year) and You Are a Champion by Marcus Rashford and Carl Anka (Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year), with winners in 8 more categories. 61 books made the shortlist across 11 categories.
Winners
Children's Fiction Book of the Year
- When the Sky Fallssource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Hey You! curatedsource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- You Are a Championsource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
- The Dark Remainssource (opens in a new tab)
Debut Book of the Year
- Open Watersource (opens in a new tab)
Discover Book of the Year
- Keisha the Sketsource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction Book of the Year
- Sorrow and Blisssource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year
- The Lyrics: 1956 to the Presentsource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britainsource (opens in a new tab)
Overall Book of the Year
- You Are a Championsource (opens in a new tab)
Pageturner Book of the Year
- Small Pleasuressource (opens in a new tab)
Shortlist
Children's Fiction Book of the Year
- Ace of Spadessource (opens in a new tab)
- Megamonstersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Christmas Pigsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Last Bearsource (opens in a new tab)
- You'll Be the Death of Mesource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Illustrated Book of the Year
- Greg the Sausage Roll: Santa's Little Helpersource (opens in a new tab)
- Heartstopper: Volume Foursource (opens in a new tab)
- Peekaboosource (opens in a new tab)
- Supertato: Night of the Living Vegsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Christmas Pinesource (opens in a new tab)
Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year
- A Different Sort of Normalsource (opens in a new tab)
- First Questions and Answers: What Is racism?source (opens in a new tab)
- Grown: The Black Girls' Guide to Glowing Upsource (opens in a new tab)
- How to Grow Up and Feel Amazing!source (opens in a new tab)
- Kay's Marvellous Medicinesource (opens in a new tab)
Crime & Thriller Book of the Year
- 1979source (opens in a new tab)
- A Slow Fire Burningsource (opens in a new tab)
- Girl Asource (opens in a new tab)
- The Appealsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Man Who Died Twicesource (opens in a new tab)
Debut Book of the Year
- Assemblysource (opens in a new tab)
- How to Kill Your Familysource (opens in a new tab)
- Lustersource (opens in a new tab)
- Mrs Death Misses Deathsource (opens in a new tab)
- She Who Became the Sunsource (opens in a new tab)
Discover Book of the Year
- Detransition, Babysource (opens in a new tab)
- Keeping the Housesource (opens in a new tab)
- Maybe I Don't Belong Heresource (opens in a new tab)
- Nen and The Lonely Fishermansource (opens in a new tab)
- We Have a Dreamsource (opens in a new tab)
Fiction Book of the Year
Non-Fiction: Lifestyle Book of the Year
- Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdesssource (opens in a new tab)
- Diddly Squat: A Year on the Farmsource (opens in a new tab)
- Jane's Patisseriesource (opens in a new tab)
- ONE: Pot, Pan, Planetsource (opens in a new tab)
- Pinch of Nom: Comfort Foodsource (opens in a new tab)
Non-Fiction: Narrative Book of the Year
- And Away...source (opens in a new tab)
- Empire of Painsource (opens in a new tab)
- This Much Is Truesource (opens in a new tab)
- Vaxxerssource (opens in a new tab)
- Windswept and Interestingsource (opens in a new tab)
Pageturner Book of the Year
- The Last House on Needless Streetsource (opens in a new tab)
- The Party Crashersource (opens in a new tab)
- The Summer Seekerssource (opens in a new tab)
- The Wolf Densource (opens in a new tab)
- Worst. Idea. Ever.source (opens in a new tab)
About the British Book Awards
Book of the Year categories only, shortlists plus winners. Audiobook categories and awards to people (Author, Illustrator, International Author, deciBel Writer, Outstanding Achievement) are skipped. Run as the Galaxy British Book Awards (2006-2009), Galaxy National Book Awards (2010-2011), Specsavers National Book Awards (2012-2014) and, under The Bookseller, the British Book Awards or Nibbies (2017-). No awards were held in 2015 or 2016. Year is the ceremony year: spring for 2006-2009 and 2017-2025, November-December for 2010-2014. Category names follow each era's own. For 2010-2014 Book of the Year was a public vote among that year's category winners, which are recorded as its shortlist; 2008-2009 Book of the Year and 2018-2025 Overall Book of the Year record the winner only, chosen from the category winners. Sources: The Bookseller and the official awards sites (archived on web.archive.org) where available; otherwise press coverage (The Guardian, The Independent, Publishing Perspectives, BBC, the awards' PR agency Taylor Herring) and, for 2013 Popular Fiction and Crime shortlists, a crime-fiction blog. 2017-2025 shortlists were transcribed from Wikipedia and each title checked against the cited page. 2013 Biography, Children's, Food & Drink and Popular Non-Fiction record winners only; the shortlists could not be recovered.
Organization: The Bookseller. Years are award years, which can differ from publication years. Official site (opens in a new tab)
Shares the most books with
- Goodreads Choice Awards 140 shared books
- Dublin Literary Award 100 shared books
- Women's Prize for Fiction 44 shared books
- Booker Prize 31 shared books
- Costa Book Awards 31 shared books