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2022 Books

Time: Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022

06 December 2022

In Love - Amy Bloom

Annabel Gutterman: The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, as published by Time Magazine

[see also The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2023 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021]

  1. In Love
    A Memoir of Love and Loss
    Amy Bloom
  2. South to America
    A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    Imani Perry
  3. Ducks
    Two Years in the Oil Sands
    Kate Beaton
  4. The Escape Artist
    The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World
    Jonathan Freedland
  5. An Immense World
    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong
  6. Constructing a Nervous System
    A Memoir
    Margo Jefferson
  7. His Name Is George Floyd
    One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
    Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
  8. How Far the Light Reaches
    A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
    Sabrina Imbler
  9. The Invisible Kingdom
    Reimagining Chronic Illness
    Meghan O’Rourke
  10. The Revolutionary
    Samuel Adams
    Stacy Schiff

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