2022 Excellence in Graphic Literature Winners

The Excellence in Graphic Literature Awards Advisory Board and Category Juries determine each year’s Nominees and Winners.

Our Advisory Board and Juries  are comprised of diverse, experienced, and informed professionals whose experiences span publishing, libraries, and education. Each year, these team members identify the very best in graphic literature based on a clearly defined and transparent process.

Book of the Year

2022 EGL Awards Book off the Year: Ha
2022 EGL Awards Book of the Year: Himawari House

Mosaic Award

2022 EGL Awards Mosaic Awards
2022 EGL Awards Mosaic Award

Readers’ Choice Award

2022 EGL Awards Readers' Choice Award: Why She Wrote
2022 EGL Awards Readers’ Choice Award: Why She Wrote

Best in Children’s Graphic Literature

Fiction

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Forever Home

by Jenny Ayoub (BOOM! Studios)

Non-Fiction

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Jop and Blip Wanna Know (Book #1)

by Jim Benton (HarperAlley)

Best in Middle-Grade Graphic Literature

Fiction

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Allergic

by Megan Wagner Lloyd & Michelle Mee Nutter (Scholastic)

Non-Fiction

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Yummy

by Victoria Grace Elliott (Random House Graphic)

Best in Young Adult Graphic Literature

Fiction

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Himawari House

by Harmony Becker (First Second Books)

Non-Fiction

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We Hereby Refuse: Japanese American Resistance to Wartime Incarceration

by Frank Abe, Tamiko Nimura, Ross Ishikawa & Matt Sasaki (Chin Music Press/Wing Luke Museum)

Best in Adult Graphic Literature

Fiction

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The Waiting

by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (Drawn & Quarterly)

Non-Fiction

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Run: Book One

by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, L. Fury, and Nate Powell (Abrams ComicArts)

Thank you to all of our 2022 EGL Award Nominees!