Kirkus Best Books of the Year Winners YA Reads About Family and Community

Awards List

2022

High Spirits (*)
Camille Gomera-Tavarez

Apr-2022
/ General Fiction

This Place Is Still Beautiful (*)
XiXi Tian

Jun-2022
/ General Fiction

Echoes of Grace (*)
Guadalupe Garcia McCall

Aug-2022
/ Fantasy

Four for the Road (*)
K.J. Reilly

Aug-2022
/ General Fiction

The Epic Story of Every Living Thing (*)
Deb Caletti

Sep-2022
/ General Fiction

The 9:09 Project (*)
Mark H. Parsons

Nov-2022
/ General Fiction

The Secrets We Keep (*)
Cassie Gustafson

Nov-2022
/ General Fiction

We Are All We Have (*)
Marina Budhos

Nov-2022
/ General Fiction

2021

Concrete Rose (*)
Angie Thomas

Jan-2021
/ General Fiction

One of the Good Ones (*)
Maika Moulite; Maritza Moulite

Jan-2021
/ General Fiction

Home Is Not a Country (*)
Safia Elhillo

Mar-2021
/ General Fiction

Misfit in Love (*)
S.K. Ali

May-2021
/ Contemporary Romance

An Emotion of Great Delight (*)
Tahereh Mafi

Jun-2021
/ Christian

In the Wild Light (*)
Jeff Zentner

Aug-2021
/ General Fiction

Vampires, Hearts & Other Dead Things (*)
Margie Fuston

Aug-2021
/ Fantasy

A Snake Falls to Earth (*)
Darcie Little Badger

Nov-2021
/ Fantasy

Award Categories

Affirming Picture Books

Books for Beginning Readers

Debut Fiction

Empowering Picture Books

Environmental Fiction

Fiction

Fiction in Translation

Fictional Families

Fictional Voices

Funniest Picture Books

Historical Fiction

Informational Picture Books

Joyous Picture Books

Middle-Grade About Speaking Up

Middle-Grade Activist

Middle-Grade Adventures

Middle-Grade Family Stories

Middle-Grade Fantasy and SF

Middle-Grade Fiction

Middle-Grade Friendship Stories

Middle-Grade Graphic Fiction

Award Years

Romance

Mystery/Thriller

Speculative

Younger Readers

Kirkus Best Books of the Year - YA Reads About Family and Community (Awarded by Kirkus)

Awards List

2022

2021

Award Categories

Award Years