Year-End Lists

Constance Grady: 16 Best Books of 2022, as published by Vox

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2020 • 2019]

Fiction

• When We Were Sisters
  Fatimah Asghar
• O Caledonia
  Elspeth Barker
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• The Immortal King Rao
  Vauhini Vara
• Joan Is Okay
  Weike Wang
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic
  Kevin Wilson

Nonfiction

• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• The Method

  How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
  Isaac Butler
• Shy

  The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
  Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
• Hotbed

  Bohemian Greenwich Village and the Secret Club that Sparked Modern Feminism
  Joanna Scutts
• Portable Magic

  A History of Books and Their Readers
  Emma Smith