The StoryGraph’s Genre Challenge 2022

A romance novel by a Black author

• The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett
• Honey Girl - Morgan Rogers

A memoir or autobiography by a trans/non-binary author

• Release the Beast - Bimini
• Uncomfortable Labels: My Life as a Gay Autistic Trans Woman - Laura Kate Dale
• All Boys Aren't Blue - George M. Johnson
• Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story - Jacob Tobia

A play published after 1980

• Fleabag - Phoebe Waller-Bridge

A non-fiction book about nature

• Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration Into the Wonder of Consciousness - Sy Montgomery
• The Secret Life of Cows - Rosamund Young
• Braiding Aweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District James Rebanks

A cosy mystery novel

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mark Haddon
• Black Water Sister - Zen Cho
• Iced in Paradise: A Leilani Santiago Hawai'i Mystery - Naomi Hirahara
• And Then There Were None - Agatha Christie
• The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires - Grady Hendrix
• Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
• Quiet in Her Bones - Nalini Singh

A contemporary or literary fiction novel by an Indigenous author

• Where the Rekohu Bone Sings - Tina Makereti
• Firekeeper's Daughter - Angeline Boulley

A non-fiction book about politics outside of your home country

• Haiti: The Aftershocks of History - Laurent Dubois
• Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland - Patrick Radden Keefe
• The Question of Palestine - Edward W. Said
• The Dirty War - Martin Dillon
• The Drone Eats with Me: A Gaza Diary - Atef Abu Saif

The StoryGraph Reads the World 2022

Brazil

• City of God - Paulo Lins
• Here the Whole Time - Vitor Martins
• Things We Lost in the Fire: Stories - Mariana Enríquez

Haiti

• Dance on the Volcano - Marie Vieux-Chauvet, Kaiama L. Glover
• Haiti Noir - Edwidge Danticat

India

• Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel
• The Henna Wars - Adiba Jaigirdar
• Hani and Ishu's Guide to Fake Dating - Adiba Jaigirdar
• The Jasmine Throne - Tasha Suri
• Mohanaswamy - ವಸುಧೇಂದ್ರ, Vasudhendra, Rashmi Terdal

Palestine

• Salt Houses - Hala Alyan
• Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa
• Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa

Turkey

• The Architect's Apprentice - Elif Shafak
• The Gaze - Elif Shafak, Brendan Freely

Vietnam

• On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong
• The Mountains Sing - Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai
• The Sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen

Zimbabwe

• Nervous Conditions - Tsitsi Dangarembga