Congratulations to the 2022 Connecticut Book Awards winners! We are delighted to name the following for this year’s awards:

Poetry

The Glass Globe | Margaret Gibson | Preston | LSU Press

Fiction

Goliath | Tochi Onyebuchi | New Haven | Tor

Nonfiction

Squirrel Hill | Mark Oppenheimer | New Haven | Penguin Random House

Young Readers

Picture Books – Fiction

Soul Food Sunday | Winsome Hudson-Bing | Ledyard | Abrams Books

Picture Books – Nonfiction

Walrus Song | Janet Lawler | Farmington | Candlewick Press

Middle Grade – Nonfiction

Fairy Tale Science | Sarah Albee | Watertown | Author | Odd Dot

Middle Grade – Fiction

To Tell You the Truth | Beth Vrabel | Canton | Simon & Schuster

Fiction – Young Adult

The Secret Life of Kitty Granger | G. D. Falksen | Hamden | Lerner Publishing Group

2022 Spirit of Connecticut Honorable Mention

All Girls | Emily Layden | Albany, NY | St. Martin’s Press

The 2022 Connecticut Book Awards recognize the best books of 2021 either about Connecticut or by authors and illustrators from Connecticut.