Year-End Lists

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2022 Books

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa: The Best Books of 2022

16 December 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Patrick Rapa: The Best Books of 2022, as published by The Philadelphia Inquirer

[see also 2021]

  1. Either/Or
    Elif Batuman
  2. If I Survive You
    Jonathan Escoffery
  3. The Hero of This Book
    Elizabeth McCracken
  4. The Candy House
    Jennifer Egan
  5. An Immense World
    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong
  6. Devil House
    John Darnielle
  7. My Government Means to Kill Me
    Rasheed Newson
  8. Ducks
    Two Years in the Oil Sands
    Kate Beaton
  9. The School for Good Mothers
    Jessamine Chan
  10. The Immortal King Rao
    Vauhini Vara

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