Year-End Lists

Electric Lit: Favorite Novels of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2024 • Best Novels of 2024 • Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Novels of 2023 • Favorite Nonfiction Books 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 3 Novels of the Year

• Little Rabbit
  Alyssa Songsiridej
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman

Other Favorite Novels

• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Big Girl
  Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• Briefly, A Delicious Life
  Nell Stevens
• Brown Girls
  Daphne Palasi Andreades
• Dinosaurs
  Lydia Millet
• Disorientation
  Elaine Hsieh Chou
• Foster
  Claire Keegan
• Greenland
  David Santos Donaldson
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
  Noor Naga
• Less Is Lost
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• Nobody's Magic
  Destiny O. Birdsong
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Post-Traumatic
  Chantal V. Johnson
• Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
  Bushra Rehman
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• The Town of Babylon
  Alejandro Varela
• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• True Biz
  Sara Nović
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas