Year-End Lists

Salon: Favorite Books of 2022, "in no fixed order" but numbered as follows

[see also 2012]

Nonfiction

1. Sickening

   How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
   John Abramson
2. The Method

   How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
   Isaac Butler
3. A Waiter in Paris

   Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City
   Edward Chisholm
4. California Soul

   An American Epic of Cooking and Survival
   Keith Corbin
5. How to Read Now

   Essays
   Elaine Castillo
6. Dear Damage
   Ashley Marie Farmer
7. Inciting Joy

   Essays
   Ross Gay
8. I'm Glad My Mom Died
   Jennette McCurdy
9. Predator

   A Memoir, a Movie, an Obsession
   Ander Monson
10. We Don't Know Ourselves

    A Personal History of Modern Ireland
    Fintan O'Toole
11. Reader's Block

    A History of Reading Differences
    Matthew Rubery
12. I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
    Baek Sehee
13. Our Fermented Lives

    Fermentation and the History of How We Eat, Heal, and Build Community
    Julia Skinner
14. It Was All a Dream

    Biggie and the World That Made Him
    Justin Tinsley

Fiction

15. More Than You'll Ever Know
    Katie Gutierrez
16. The Work Wife
    Alison B. Hart
17. The Cloisters
    Katy Hays
18. A Ghost of Caribou
    Alice Henderson
19. Lark Ascending
    Silas House
20. Babel

    An Arcane History
    R.F. Kuang
21. All I Should Not Tell
    Brian Leung
22. Lapvona
    Ottessa Moshfegh
23. Daughters of the New Year
    E.M. Tran
24. The Department of Truth, Vol. 3

    Free Country
    James Tynion IV