Year-End Lists

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• Some of Them Will Carry Me
  Giada Scodellaro
• Jawbone
  Mónica Ojeda
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary
  Laura Stanfill
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Bliss Montage
  Ling Ma
• Lungfish
  Meghan Gilliss
• Seven Empty Houses
  Samanta Schweblin
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• Mouth to Mouth
  Antoine Wilson
• The Pachinko Parlour
  Elisa Shua Dusapin
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Wall
  Marlen Haushofer
• This Time Tomorrow
  Emma Straub
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Less Is Lost
  Andrew Sean Greer
• When We Were Birds
  Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas

Decibel Magazine: Top 40 Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2012]

1. It's Time... To Rise From the Grave
   Undeath
2. Heavy Pendulum
   Cave In
3. Loud Arriver
   Sonja
4. Blackbraid I
   Blackbraid
5. Acts Of God
   Immolation
6. Diaspora Problems
   Soul Glo
7. Kanawha Black
   Nechochwen
8. Hate Über Alles
   Kreator
9. Null
   KEN mode
10. Upon Desolation
    Mortuous
11. Starlight And Ash
    Oceans of Slumber
12. Thought Form Descent
    Wake
13. God's Country
    Chat Pile
14. Synchro Anarchy
    Voivod
15. Pain Into Power
    Terror
16. Dreamkiller
    Sumerlands
17. The Pact
    Negative Plane
18. Enveloping Absurdity
    Phobophilic
19. Song Of Salvation
    Dream Unending
20. Myopia
    Mizmor & Thou
21. Earth Infernal
    Satan
22. Legend
    Vanum
23. Memory Theater
    Escuela Grind
24. Deathwestern
    SpiritWorld
25. Tlazcaltiliztli
    Tzompantli
26. Legacy of Ruin
    Eight Bells
27. Where the Shadows Adorn
    Mother of Graves
28. 劇變 (Jubian)
    Ripped to Shreds
29. Through Sheer Will And Black Magic...
    Daeva
30. Defiled in Oblivion
    Castrator
31. Electrified Brain
    Municipal Waste
32. Regenesis
    Black Anvil
33. Spirit Of Ecstasy
    Imperial Triumphant
34. Halo
    Amorphis
35. The Knocking, Or The Story of the Sound that Preceded Their Disappearance
    Doldrum
36. Let There Be Witchery
    Midnight
37. From the Rot Is a Gift
    STILL/FORM
38. Shiki
    Sigh
39. Mirage
    Gaerea
40. Summoning The Slayer
    Temple Of Void

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• 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
• Ancestor Trouble

  A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  Maud Newton
• As It Turns Out

  Thinking About Edie and Andy
  Alice Sedgwick Wohl
• Because Our Fathers Lied

  A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
  Craig McNamara
• Cheap Land Colorado

  Off-Gridders at America's Edge
  Ted Conover
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Confidence Man

  The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
  Maggie Haberman
• Desperate Remedies

  Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
  Andrew Scull
• Diary of a Misfit

  A Memoir and a Mystery
  Casey Parks
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Eliot After "The Waste Land"
  Robert Crawford
• Esmond and Ilia

  An Unreliable Memoir
  Marina Warner
• Finding Me
  Viola Davis
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• The Great Stewardess Rebellion

  How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
  Nell McShane Wulfhart
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
• Imagining the End

  Mourning and Ethical Life
  Jonathan Lear
• The Impossible City

  A Hong Kong Memoir
  Karen Cheung
• Index, A History of the

  A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  Dennis Duncan
• The Inheritors

  An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
  Eve Fairbanks
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Lady Justice

  Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
  Dahlia Lithwick
• Lessons from the Edge

  A Memoir
  Marie Yovanovitch
• A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943
  John Richardson
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• Newsroom Confidential

  Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
  Margaret Sullivan
• The Palace Papers

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

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• README.txt
  Chelsea Manning
• Reality+

  Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
  David J. Chalmers
• Rickey

  The Life and Legend of an American Original
  Howard Bryant
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• Shy

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

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tasha

  A Son's Memoir
  Brian Morton
• This Body I Wore

  A Memoir
  Diana Goetsch
• Truly, Madly

  Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
  Stephen Galloway
• Under the Skin

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

  Inside the Cold War Mind
  Martin Sixsmith
• Watergate

  A New History
  Garrett M. Graff
• Ways and Means

  Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
  Roger Lowenstein
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• When McKinsey Comes to Town

  The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
  Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  Zora Neale Hurston

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• All the Lovers in the Night
  Mieko Kawakami
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• City on Fire
  Don Winslow
• The Consequences
  Manuel Muñoz
• Cult Classic
  Sloane Crosley
• Dr. No
  Percival Everett
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• Fencing with the King
  Diana Abu-Jaber
• Forbidden City
  Vanessa Hua
• The Foundling
  Ann Leary
• Free Love
  Tessa Hadley
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• Groundskeeping
  Lee Cole
• The Hero of This Book
  Elizabeth McCracken
• Horse
  Geraldine Brooks
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
  Angie Cruz
• Invisible Things
  Mat Johnson
• Jackie & Me
  Louis Bayard
• The Latecomer
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Less Is Lost
  Andrew Sean Greer
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• The Lioness
  Chris Bohjalian
• Lucky Breaks
  Yevgenia Belorusets
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Marriage Portrait
  Maggie O'Farrell
• Mercy Street
  Jennifer Haigh
• My Phantoms
  Gwendoline Riley
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• Our Wives Under the Sea
  Julia Armfield
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• Salka Valka
  Halldór Laxness
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Shrines of Gaiety
  Kate Atkinson
• Signal Fires
  Dani Shapiro
• The Singularities
  John Banville
• The Stone World
  Joel Agee
• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• To Paradise
  Hanya Yanagihara
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Trespasses
  Louise Kennedy
• True Biz
  Sara Nović
• The Unfolding
  A.M. Homes
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas
• We All Want Impossible Things
  Catherine Newman
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• Yonder
  Jabari Asim

The Washington Post: The 10 Best Books of 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

Fiction

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Mecca
  Susan Straight
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart

Nonfiction

• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• The Petroleum Papers

  Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change
  Geoff Dembicki
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Weapons of Mass Delusion

  When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind
  Robert Draper

National Book Award: Fiction 2022

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty

Finalists

• The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
  Jamil Jan Kochai
• The Birdcatcher
  Gayl Jones
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews

Longlist

• When We Were Sisters
  Fatimah Asghar
• Shutter
  Ramona Emerson
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Nobody Gets Out Alive

  Stories
  Leigh Newman
• Maria, Maria and Other Stories
  Marytza K. Rubio
• The Town of Babylon
  Alejandro Varela

National Book Award: Nonfiction 2022

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2013 • Nonfiction 2013]

Winner

• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry

Finalists

• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Breathless

  The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
  David Quammen
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa

Longlist

• Bright Unbearable Reality

  Essays
  Anna Badkhen
• Ted Kennedy

  A Life
  John A. Farrell
• Uncommon Measure

  A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time
  Natalie Hodges
• Bad Mexicans

  Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands
  Kelly Lytle Hernández
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz

National Book Award: Poetry 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2013]

Winner

• Punks

  New & Selected Poems
  John Keene

Finalists

• Look at This Blue
  Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
• Balladz
  Sharon Olds
• Best Barbarian
  Roger Reeves

Longlist

• Golden Ax
  Rio Cortez
• Still Life
  Jay Hopler
• Mummy Eaters
  Sherry Shenoda
• Duende

  Poems, 1966-Now
  Quincy Troupe
• As She Appears
  Shelley Wong
• The Rupture Tense
  Jenny Xie

Texas Music Magazine: 22 Top Albums of 2022

• Take It Like a Man
  Amanda Shires
• Renaissance
  Beyoncé
• Obsessed With the West
  Brennen Leigh featuring Asleep At The Wheel
• The Man From Waco
  Charley Crockett
• The Deep End
  Fastball
• The Astronaut
  Jana Pochop
• Flatland Lullaby
  Joe Ely
• Special
  Lizzo
• 12th of June
  Lyle Lovett
• Traumazine
  Megan Thee Stallion
• Miles and Miles of You
  Pat Green
• Country Coming Down
  Paul Cauthen
• Co-Starring Too
  Ray Wylie Hubbard
• The Misfit
  Rhett Miller
• Lucifer on the Sofa
  Spoon
• Married Alone
  Sunny Sweeney
• Ali
  Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
• Somewhere Between The Secret at The Truth
  Wade Bowen
• Ghost Stories
  The Whitmore Sisters
• Baker Hotel
  William Clark Green
• A Beautiful Time
  Willie Nelson
• RAW 'That Little Ol' Band From Texas' Original Soundtrack
  ZZ Top

Rough Trade: UK Albums of the Year 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019]

1. Fear of the Dawn
   Jack White
1. Entering Heaven Alive
   Jack White
2. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
3. The Overload
   Yard Act
4. Skinty Fia
   Fontaines D.C.
5. Hold the Girl
   Rina Sawayama
6. Ants From Up There
   Black Country, New Road
7. Glitch Princess
   yeule
8. Hellfire
   black midi
9. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
10. Tired of Liberty
    Lounge Society
11. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
12. Laurel Hell
    Mitski
13. Versions of Modern Performance
    Horsegirl
14. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
15. LP.8
    Kelly Lee Owens
16. For All Our Days That Tear the Heart
    Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler
17. A Foul Form
    Osees
18. Electricity
    Ibibio Sound Machine
19. Tableau
    The Orielles
20. Supernova
    Nova Twins