What to read? Here are the best Ukrainian books of 2022 according to the version of the BBC award

38 Ukrainian publications were included in the “long” list of the award.

Publication “BVS News Ukraine”, which every year holds the “BBC Book of the Year competition, < span style="font-weight: 400;">published the list of nominees for the award in 2022. The list includes 38 publications in three categories: “BBC Book of the Year”, “BBC Essay Book of the Year” and “BBC Children's Book of the Year”.

BBC Book of the Year -2022:

  • Anna Bugaeva. Everything will be Paris! – Zolotonosha: Raina N. Publishing House, 2022
  • Ruslan Horovy. Nomenclature – Kyiv: TaTySho!, Luta srava, 2022
  • Serhiy Demchuk. Ja Island. – Kyiv: Tempora, 2022
  • Natalia Dovgopol. Find the country of the Amazons. – Kharkiv: Vivat, 2022
  • Irena Karpa. Just don't tell anyone about it. – Kyiv: #книголав, 2022
  • Serhiy Karyuk. Feria. 13 Andalusian days and nights. – Kyiv: Gamazyn, 2021
  • Bohdan Kolomiychuk. 300 miles to the east. – Lviv: Stary Lev Publishing House, 2021
  • Khrystyna Kotsira. Eve's apples. – Kharkiv: Family Leisure Club, 2022
  • Yaroslava Lytvyn. Not my home. – Kharkiv: VD “Fabula”, 2021
  • Marina Manchenko. Bitter oranges. – Kyiv: Tempora, 2022
  • Anna Morozova. The fourth helper of St. Christopher. – Kyiv: Samit-knyga, 2021
  • Halyna Petrosanyak. Villa Anemona. – Chernivtsi: Books – XXI, 2021
  • Andriy Semyankiv. Dancing with bones. Medical thriller. – Kyiv: Vikhola, 2022
  • Olexander Tereshchenko. Life after 4:30 p.m. Seven years later. – Kyiv: DIPA, 2021

BBC Children's Book of the Year 2022:

  • Volodymyr Arenev. A treasure trove of stories. – Lviv: Stary Lev Publishing House, 2022
  • Andrii Bachynskyi. Ghosts of the Black Forest. – Lviv: Stary Lev Publishing House, 2022
  • Kateryna Yehorushkina. My forced vacation. – Kharkiv: Vivat, 2022
  • Dmytro Zhuravel. Not a word to anyone, or How to fall out of love with apricots. – Kharkiv: ACCA, 2022
  • Sonya Zelena. Microbes do not read! Book about vaccines. – Kyiv: Yakaboo Publishing, 2022
  • Inna Kovalishena. Cool history of Ukraine. From dinosaurs to today. – Kyiv: My bookshelf, 2021
  • Vasyl Karpiuk. Oleksa Dovbush. Aridnik's lair. – Brusturiv: Discourse, 2021
  • Valentina Kyrylova. Horses and a portrait of my uncle. – Kyiv: My bookshelf, 2021
  • Grasia Oliyko. A dress for Marusi. – Kyiv: A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-Ga, 2022
  • Svitlana Roiz. Key powers. – Lviv: Stary Lev Publishing House, 2022
  • Natalia Smirnova. Kerim's Crimea. – Kyiv: Portal, 2021
  • Ulyana Chuba. Mother-baby, or the terrible miracle before Christmas. – Kyiv: A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-Ga, 2022
  • Nina Yagodhinska. Quest: find the Aeneid. – Kyiv: Our format, 2021

BBC Book of the Year-Essayist-2022:

  • Ivan Verbytskyi. Adventures of the most popular game. – Kyiv: Tempora, 2022
  • Rustam Hajiyev. Linguistics on the world map. – Kyiv: Vikhola, 2022
  • Yaroslav Hrytsak. Overcoming the past: Global history of Ukraine. – Kyiv: Portal, 2022
  • Pavlo Kazarin. The Wild West of Eastern Europe. – Kharkiv: Vivat, 2022
  • Olga Kari. A cross, or a very bloody book. – Kyiv: Creative Women Publishing, 2022
  • Andrii Lyubka. Something is wrong with me. – Chernivtsi: Meridian Chernivtsi, 2022
  • Iryna Magdysh. Art nouveau Styles of Ukrainian art of the 20th century. – Kyiv: Portal, 2021
  • Marta Molfar, Andriy Dostlev. XYZ Ukrainians: habits, tastes, lifestyle. – Kyiv: Master of Books, 2021
  • Iryna Slavinska. Almost an adult. A book for girls and about girls. – Kharkiv: Vivat, 2021
  • Ivan Chernenko. Laughter at the end of the tunnel. – Kyiv: Vikhola, 2021
  • Olena Shulga. Our. Engineering history of Ukraine. – Kyiv: My bookshelf, 2021

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The final of the BBC Book of the Year competition will take place in December 2022. The winner in each nomination will receive a cash prize in the amount of the hryvnia equivalent of £1,000. The publishers of the winning books in both nominations will have the right to use the logo of the BBC Book of the Year award in subsequent editions.

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Last year, the “BBC Book of the Year” was Artem Chech's novel “Who are you?”; “BBC-Essayist book of the year” – “What to write about…” Andriy Sodomory; “BBC Children's Book of the Year” – “Union of Soviet Things” by Pyotr Yatsenko.

Based on materials: ZN.ua

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