Award-Winning Titles by Women 2022

Created on March 4, 2022, 3:37 pm

Last Updated March 19, 2024, 2:54 pm

We love book award season! Here are some recent winners for all ages—that also all happen to be written by women. A great way to celebrate Women's History Month!
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One of the winners of the Alex Award, which honors books written for adults that can be read and enjoyed by teens, this book is perfect for folks who love world building and romance.
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Read this Stonewall Award winning book for insight on the growing LGBTQ+ movement in video games and game making.
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Who wouldn't want to read this gripping, thrilling story with a heroic main character? It just happened to win the Pura Belpre Children's Author Award AND the Newbery Medal.
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Discover one of Japan's most famous authors, with a career spanning four decades, in this Mildred L. Batchelder winner for an outstanding children's book originally published in a language other than English.
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5) Curb
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Curb won the Pen Open Book Award for an exceptional book-length work of any literary genre by an author of color which is appropriate for a book that spans styles from poetry to prose to memoir to journalism.
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Best to learn Amber McBride's name as she received the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award.
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Listening to a memoir read by the author can be one of the more intimate and engaging reading experiences. Try this one which won the Audie Award for best Autobiography/Memoir.
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