Gripping novels, transporting poetry, and timely nonfiction that asked us to look deeper
Andrew R. Chow, Lucy Feldman, Mahita Gajanan, Annabel Gutterman, Angela Haupt, Cady Lang, and Laura Zornosa
BEST BOOKS 2022
- A Heart That Worksby Rob Delaney
- Afterlivesby Abdulrazak Gurnah
- All the Lovers in the Nightby Mieko Kawakami
- All This Could Be Differentby Sarah Thankam Mathews
- An Immense Worldby Ed Yong
- Ancestor Troubleby Maud Newton
- Animal Joyby Nuar Alsadir
- Anna: The Biographyby Amy Odell
- Babelby R.F. Kuang
- Bitter Orange Treeby Jokha Alharthi
- The Book of Gooseby Yiyun Li
- Breathlessby David Quammen
- Butts: A Backstoryby Heather Radke
- Calling for a Blanket Danceby Oscar Hokeah
- The Candy Houseby Jennifer Egan
- Carrie Soto Is Backby Taylor Jenkins Reid
- Chef’s Kissby TJ Alexander
- Civil Rights Queenby Tomiko Brown-Nagin
- Constructing a Nervous Systemby Margo Jefferson
- Cover Storyby Susan Rigetti
- The Crane Wifeby CJ Hauser
- The Daughter of Doctor Moreauby Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Dinosaursby Lydia Millet
- Dirtbag, Massachusettsby Isaac Fitzgerald
- Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sandsby Kate Beaton
- Easy Beautyby Chloé Cooper Jones
- Eating to Extinctionby Dan Saladino
- Either/Orby Elif Batuman
- The Emergencyby Thomas Fisher
- The Employeesby Olga Ravn
- The Escape Artistby Jonathan Freedland
- Everything I Need I Get from Youby Kaitlyn Tiffany
- The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Manby Paul Newman
- The Family Outingby Jessi Hempel
- Fellowship Pointby Alice Elliott Dark
- Finding Meby Viola Davis
- Fiona and Janeby Jean Chen Ho
- The Furrowsby Namwali Serpell
- Getting Lostby Annie Ernaux
- Gloryby NoViolet Bulawayo
- Goliathby Tochi Onyebuchi
- Half Americanby Matthew F. Delmont
- The Hero of This Bookby Elizabeth McCracken
- His Name Is George Floydby Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
- Honey & Spiceby Bolu Babalola
- How Far the Light Reachesby Sabrina Imbler
- The Hurting Kindby Ada Limón
- I Came All This Way to Meet Youby Jami Attenberg
- I’m Glad My Mom Diedby Jennette McCurdy
- If an Egyptian Cannot Speak Englishby Noor Naga
- If I Survive Youby Jonathan Escoffery
- In Loveby Amy Bloom
- Index, A History of theby Dennis Duncan
- The Invisible Kingdomby Meghan O’Rourke
- Learning to Talkby Hilary Mantel
- Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Centuryby Kim Fu
- Liberation Dayby George Saunders
- Life Between the Tidesby Adam Nicolson
- The Light We Carryby Michelle Obama
- Lost & Foundby Kathryn Schulz
- Lucy by the Seaby Elizabeth Strout
- The Man Who Could Move Cloudsby Ingrid Rojas Contreras
- Manifestoby Bernardine Evaristo
- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodiesby Maddie Mortimer
- The Marriage Portraitby Maggie O’Farrell
- The Methodby Isaac Butler
- Mouth to Mouthby Antoine Wilson
- The Naked Don’t Fear the Waterby Matthieu Aikins
- Night of the Living Rezby Morgan Talty
- Nightcrawlingby Leila Mottley
- Now Is Not the Time to Panicby Kevin Wilson
- Nuclear Familyby Joseph Han
- Olga Dies Dreamingby Xochitl Gonzalez
- Our Missing Heartsby Celeste Ng
- The Rabbit Hutchby Tess Gunty
- The Revolutionary: Samuel Adamsby Stacy Schiff
- Scattered All Over the Earthby Yoko Tawada
- The School for Good Mothersby Jessamine Chan
- Scoundrelby Sarah Weinman
- Shrines of Gaietyby Kate Atkinson
- Signal Firesby Dani Shapiro
- Siren Queenby Nghi Vo
- South to Americaby Imani Perry
- Stay Trueby Hua Hsu
- Still Lifeby Jay Hopler
- Strangers to Ourselvesby Rachel Aviv
- Ted Kennedy: A Lifeby John A. Farrell
- This Time Tomorrowby Emma Straub
- Tidesby Sara Freeman
- Time Is a Motherby Ocean Vuong
- Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrowby Gabrielle Zevin
- The Trayvon Generationby Elizabeth Alexander
- Trustby Hernan Diaz
- Under the Skinby Linda Villarosa
- Upgradeby Blake Crouch
- Vladimirby Julia May Jonas
- When We Were Sistersby Fatimah Asghar
- Woman Without Shameby Sandra Cisneros
- The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes Onby Franny Choi
- Young Mungoby Douglas Stuart
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