Indie Book Awards 2022 Shortlist Revealed
Listen to Mark Forrest on 24th June to be the first to discover this year's winners
We are a proud partner of the Indie Book Awards 2022, curated exclusively by independent bookshops as part of Independent Bookshop Week, which takes place from 18th-25th June 2022.
The awards celebrate paperback books across four categories – Fiction, Non-Fiction, Children’s Fiction and Picture Book. Read on to discover this year's shortlist and listen to Mark Forrest on Friday 24th June from 10am, as he shares the exclusive announcement of this year's winners.
The full Indie Book Awards 2022 shortlist...
FICTION
Mrs Death Misses Death by Salena Godden (Canongate)
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber)
The Lamplighters by Emma Stonex (Picador)
Still Life by Sarah Winman (HarperCollins)
Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury)
The Women of Troy by Pat Barker (Hamish Hamilton)
NON-FICTION
The Comfort Book by Matt Haig (Canongate)
The Book of Trespass by Nick Hayes (Bloomsbury)
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (Picador)
How We Met by Huma Qureshi (Elliot & Thompson Limited)
Scoff: A History of Food and Class in Britain by Pen Vogler (Atlantic Books)
House of Music – Raising the Kanneh-Masons by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason (Oneworld)
CHILDREN’S FICTION
The Last Bear by Hannah Gold, illustrated by Levi Pinfold (HarperCollins Children's Books)
The Week at World's End by Emma Carroll (Faber)
Frankenstiltskin: Fairy Tales Gone Bad by Joseph Coelho, illustrated by Freya Hartas (Walker)
Escape Room by Christopher Edge (Nosy Crow)
The Chime Seekers by Ross Montgomery (Walker)
When I Was the Greatest by Jason Reynolds, illustrated by Akhran Girmay (Faber)
PICTURE BOOK
Arlo the Lion Who Couldn't Sleep by Catherine Rayner (Macmillan Children's Books)
Counting Creatures by Julia Donaldson & Sharon King-Chai (Two Hoots)
A Song of Gladness by Michael Morpurgo & Emily Gravett (Two Hoots)
Granny Came Here on the Empire Windrush by Patrice Lawrence & Camilla Sucre (Nosy Crow)
My Beautiful Voice by Joseph Coelho & Allison Colpoys (Frances Lincoln Children's Books)
The Night the Moon Went Missing by Brendan Kearney (DK)
The judging panel for the Adult categories consists of chair Matt Steele (Ivybridge Bookshop), Melanie Greenwood (DRAKE The Bookshop), Carolyn Bain (Afrori Books), Sally Pattle (Far From the Madding Crowd) and Stephanie Goulden (Blackwell’s Edinburgh).