Book lists, bag lists
The 2022 Books Are My Bag Readers Awards Shortlist, as chosen by bookshops, are: Fiction: Heaven, Mieko Kawakami; Her Majesty’s Royal Coven, Juno Dawson; Our Wives Under the Sea, Julia Armfield; Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin. Nonfiction: Ghost Signs, Stu Hennigan; Otherlands: A World in the Making, Dr Thomas Halliday; The Transgender Issue, Shon Faye; Without Warning and Only Sometimes, Kit de Waal. Poetry: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head, Warsan Shire; The Fire People: A Collection of British Black and Asian Poetry, Lemn Sissay; Limbic, Peter Scalpello; 100 Queer Poems edited by Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan. Young Adult Fiction: All That’s Left in the World, Erik J Brown; I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Casey McQuiston; The King is Dead, Benjamin Dean; When Our Worlds Collided, Danielle Jawando. Children’s Fiction: Grimwood: Let the Fur Fly, Nadia Shireen; Like a Charm, Elle McNicoll; Loki: A Bad God’s Guide to Being Good, Louie Stowell; Skandar and the Unicorn Thief, A.F. Steadman. Breakthrough Author: Mieko Kawakami, author of Heaven, All the Lovers in the Night, and Breasts and Eggs; Alice Oseman, creator of the Heartstopper series; Jamie Smart, creator of the Bunny vs Monkey series; Gabrielle Zevin, author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.