By George Saunders, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Random House
The Phi Beta Kappa Society has announced the 2022 Book Awards Short List
The ΦΒΚ Book Awards are administered in the following three, non-fiction categories:
The Christian Gauss Award: Celebrates outstanding books in the field of literary scholarship or criticism.
The Phi Beta Kappa Award for Science: Recognizes superior books by scientists written to illuminate aspects of science for a broad readership.
The Ralph Waldo Emerson Award: Honors scholarly studies that contribute significantly to interpretations of the intellectual and cultural condition of humanity.
Finalists and award-winning authors are selected by a panel of experts in each category. Award-winning authors will each receive a $10,000 prize. For more information please email Aurora Sherman. The winners will be announced in October.
By Heather Cass White,Books Promiscuously Read
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Paul A. Bové (ΦBK, University of Pittsburgh), Love's Shadow
Harvard University Press
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Rebecca Solnit, Orwell's Roses
Viking
By Rebecca Solnit, Read until You Understand: The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
Viking
By Frank Wilczek (ΦBK, University of Chicago),Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality
By Jordan Ellenberg (ΦBK, Harvard University),Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy and Everything Else
By Margaret D. Lowman,The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein,The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey Into Dark Matter, Spacetime, & Dreams Deferred
Bold Type Books
By Tiya Alica Miles,All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
Random House
By Nicole Eustace,Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Liveright
By Elizabeth D. Samet (ΦBK, Harvard University)Looking for the Good War: American Amnesia and the Violent Pursuit of Happiness
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
By Linda Colley,The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
Liveright
By Mia Bay,Traveling Black: A Story of Race and Resistance
Belknap Press of Harvard
Please email Aurora Sherman at asherman@pbk.org with any inquiries or call (202) 745-3287.