Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Novels of 2022 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 • Favorite Novels of 2021 • Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2020 • Favorite Novels of 2020 • 15 Best Novels of 2019 • 15 Best Nonfiction Books of 2019]

The Top Three Nonfiction Books of the Year

• Body Work

  The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
  Melissa Febos
• I'm Glad My Mom Died
  Jennette McCurdy
• The Crane Wife

  A Memoir in Essays
  C.J. Hauser

Other Favorite Nonfiction Books of the Year

• Bad Sex
  Nona Willis Aronowitz
• The Best American Essays 2022
  Alexander Chee (editor)
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts

  A Confessional
  Isaac Fitzgerald
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Girls Can Kiss Now
  Jill Gutowitz
• Heretic
  Jeanna Kadlec
• High-Risk Homosexual
  Edgar Gomez
• How Far the Light Reaches

  A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
  Sabrina Imbler
• How to Read Now

  Essays
  Elaine Castillo
• I Came All This Way to Meet You

  Writing Myself Home
  Jami Attenberg
• In Sensorium

  Notes for My People
  Tanaïs
• Manifesto

  On Never Giving Up
  Bernardine Evaristo
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Some of My Best Friends

  Essays on Lip Service
  Tajja Isen
• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• The Tiger and the Cage

  A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
  Emma Bolden
• Virology

  Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
  Joseph Osmundson
• When They Tell You To Be Good
  Prince Shakur
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  Zora Neale Hurston