Year-End Lists

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2022

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• American Midnight

  The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  Adam Hochschild
• The Arc of a Covenant

  The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
  Walter Russell Mead
• Avalon
  Nell Zink
• The Bangalore Detectives Club
  Harini Nagendra
• Best Barbarian
  Roger Reeves
• Black Folk Could Fly

  Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
  Randall Kenan
• Bliss Montage
  Ling Ma
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Breathless

  The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
  David Quammen
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Case Study
  Graeme Macrae Burnet
• A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
  Kai-Cheung Dung
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Companion Piece
  Ali Smith
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Dead Romantics
  Ashley Poston
• Dead-End Memories
  Banana Yoshimoto
• Democracy's Data

  The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
  Dan Bouk
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
  James Hannaham
• Dr. No
  Percival Everett
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• Everything I Need I Get from You

  How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
  Kaitlyn Tiffany
• Fire Season

  Selected Essays 1984–2021
  Gary Indiana
• Flung Out of Space

  Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
  Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
• Four Treasures of the Sky
  Jenny Tinghui Zhang
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• Gods of Want
  K-Ming Chang
• The Grimkes

  The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
  Kerri K. Greenidge
• Half American

  The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
  Matthew F. Delmont
• Hokuloa Road
  Elizabeth Hand
• Homesickness
  Colin Barrett
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
  Angie Cruz
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Immortal King Rao
  Vauhini Vara
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Indelible City

  Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
  Louisa Lim
• Index, A History of the

  A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  Dennis Duncan
• Indigenous Continent

  The Epic Contest for North America
  Pekka Hämäläinen
• Joan Is Okay
  Weike Wang
• Kiki Man Ray

  Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
  Mark Braude
• Kingdom of Characters

  The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
  Jing Tsu
• The Latecomer
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Legacy of Violence

  A History of the British Empire
  Caroline Elkins
• Lessons in Chemistry
  Bonnie Garmus
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• Life Between the Tides
  Adam Nicolson
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• Metaphysical Animals

  How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
  Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman
• Motherthing
  Ainslie Hogarth
• Mr. B

  George Balanchine's 20th Century
  Jennifer Homans
• My Government Means to Kill Me
  Rasheed Newson
• Night of the Living Rez
  Morgan Talty
• Now Do You Know Where You Are
  Dana Levin
• The Old Woman with the Knife
  Gu Byeong-mo
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Palace Papers

  Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
  Tina Brown
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Path Lit by Lightning

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• Picasso's War

  How Modern Art Came to America
  Hugh Eakin
• Pure Colour
  Sheila Heti
• The Quiet Before

  On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
  Gal Beckerman
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Red Blossom in Snow
  Jeannie Lin
• The Return of Faraz Ali
  Aamina Ahmad
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Secret City

  The Hidden History of Gay Washington
  James Kirchick
• Seek and Hide

  The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
  Amy Gajda
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• Shy

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

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Son of Elsewhere

  A Memoir in Pieces
  Elamin Abdelmahmoud
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Super-Infinite

  The Transformations of John Donne
  Katherine Rundell
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Trayvon Generation
  Elizabeth Alexander
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• Walking the Bowl

  A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
  Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• When McKinsey Comes to Town

  The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
  Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
• Yonder
  Jabari Asim
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
  Akwaeke Emezi