Year-End Lists

Mojo Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

1. Dear Scott
   Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
2. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
3. Cheat Codes
   Danger Mouse and Black Thought
4. Midnight Rocker
   Horace Andy
5. The Car
   Arctic Monkeys
6. Autofiction
   Suede
7. YTI⅃AƎЯ
   Bill Callahan
8. Fear of the Dawn
   Jack White
9. Stumpwork
   Dry Cleaning
10. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
11. A Light for Attracting Attention
    The Smile
12. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
13. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
14. And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow
    Weyes Blood
15. Cruel Country
    Wilco
16. I Survived, It's Over
    Rich Ruth
17. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
18. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
19. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
20. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
21. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
22. Carry Me Home
    Levon Helm and Mavis Staples
23. Welcome 2 Club XIII
    Drive-By Truckers
24. Reset
    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
25. Angels & Queens – Part I
    Gabriels
26. The Spur
    Joan Shelley
27. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
28. Tresor
    Gwenno
29. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
30. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
31. Timbuktu
    Oumou Sangaré
32. Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
33. Forfolks
    Jeff Parker
34. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
    Kendrick Lamar
35. Cool It Down
    Yeah Yeah Yeahs
36. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
37. Ali
    Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
38. Get On Board: The Songs of Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
    Taj Mahal & Ry Cooder
39. The Boy Named If
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
40. The Mars Volta
    The Mars Volta
41. Breaking The Thermometer
    Leyla McCalla
42. Heartmind
    Cass McCombs
43. Gold
    Alabaster DePlume
44. Fear Fear
    Working Men's Club
45. The Overload
    Yard Act
46. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
47. Fever Dreams Pts. 1-4
    Johnny Marr
48. For The Sake of Bethel Woods
    Midlake
49. Anaïs Mitchell
    Anaïs Mitchell
50. Jazz Codes
    Moor Mother
51. (watch my moves)
    Kurt Vile
52. All Of Us Flames
    Ezra Furman
53. Heart Is Strange
    Xpropaganda
54. Good and Green Again
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
55. Dentures Out
    Proclaimers
56. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
    Big Thief
57. Shebang
    Oren Ambarchi
58. Most Normal
    Gilla Band
59. Fossora
    Björk
60. Lucifer on the Sofa
    Spoon
61. See You in the Stars
    Lightning Seeds
62. Topical Dancer
    Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul
63. Riderless Horse
    Nina Nastasia
64. Loggerhead
    Wu-Lu
65. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
    Brian Eno
66. Big Time
    Angel Olsen
67. Spencer Gets It Lit
    Jon Spencer & the HITmakers
68. The Bible
    Lambchop
69. Dropout Boogie
    The Black Keys
70. For McCoy
    Eiko Ishibashi
71. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
72. The Line Is A Curve
    Kae Tempest
73. Recordings from the Åland Islands
    Jeremiah Chiu & Marta Sofia Honer
74. LP.8
    Kelly Lee Owens
75. I Got a Love
    Elizabeth King

Uncut Magazine: 75 Best Albums of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012]

1. A Light for Attracting Attention
   The Smile
2. The Spur
   Joan Shelley
3. Dear Scott
   Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band
4. Big Time
   Angel Olsen
5. Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You
   Big Thief
6. Cruel Country
   Wilco
7. Wet Leg
   Wet Leg
8. Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers
   Kendrick Lamar
9. FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE
   Brian Eno
10. The Boy Named If
    Elvis Costello & The Imposters
11. The Sea Drift
    The Delines
12. How Is It That I Should Look at the Stars
    The Weather Station
13. Pompeii
    Cate Le Bon
14. Weather Alive
    Beth Orton
15. The Bible
    Lambchop
16. The Ruby Cord
    Richard Dawson
17. Skinty Fia
    Fontaines D.C.
18. Tresor
    Gwenno
19. We've Been Going About This All Wrong
    Sharon Van Etten
20. (watch my moves)
    Kurt Vile
21. Hellfire
    black midi
22. Life on Earth
    Hurray for the Riff Raff
23. The Car
    Arctic Monkeys
24. Stumpwork
    Dry Cleaning
25. Heartmind
    Cass McCombs
26. I Love You Jennifer B
    Jockstrap
27. Ants From Up There
    Black Country, New Road
28. Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam
    The Comet Is Coming
29. Pre Pleasure
    Julia Jacklin
30. Everything Was Beautiful
    Spiritualized
31. This Is A Photograph
    Kevin Morby
32. Midnight Rocker
    Horace Andy
33. Natural Brown Prom Queen
    Sudan Archives
34. You Belong There
    Daniel Rossen
35. Reset
    Panda Bear and Sonic Boom
36. Teeth Marks
    S.G. Goodman
37. Bajascillators
    Bitchin Bajas
38. Loose Future
    Courtney Marie Andrews
39. Ali
    Vieux Farka Touré & Khruangbin
40. "Hello, Hi"
    Ty Segall
41. Endless Rooms
    Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever
42. Optimism
    Jana Horn
43. Revelators
    Revelators Sound System
44. In These Times
    Makaya McCraven
45. Warm Chris
    Aldous Harding
46. Fossora
    Björk
47. I Survived, It's Over
    Rich Ruth
48. Still Life
    Carson McHone
49. YTI⅃AƎЯ
    Bill Callahan
50. Welcome 2 Club XIII
    Drive-By Truckers
51. Good and Green Again
    Jake Xerxes Fussell
52. Mil Coisas Invisíveis
    Tim Bernardes
53. Renaissance
    Beyoncé
54. Autofiction
    Suede
55. Take It Like a Man
    Amanda Shires
56. Chloë and the Next 20th Century
    Father John Misty
57. Ghosted
    Oren Ambarchi / Johan Berthling / Andreas Werliin
58. Let's Emerge!
    Pye Corner Audio
59. Dropout Boogie
    The Black Keys
60. Two Sisters
    Sarah Davachi
61. The Overload
    Yard Act
62. Classic Objects
    Jenny Hval
63. Shufflemania!
    Robyn Hitchcock
64. Ghost Power
    Ghost Power
65. Once Twice Melody
    Beach House
66. Sorrows Away
    The Unthanks
67. The New Faith
    Jake Blount
68. for you who are the wronged
    Kathryn Joseph
69. Entering Heaven Alive
    Jack White
70. I Ran Down Every Dream
    Tommy McLain
71. The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience
    Angeline Morrison
72. The Liquified Throne of Simplicity
    Širom
73. Protector
    Aoife Nessa Frances
74. Evolution Here We Come
    Chris Forsyth
75. Hiding in Plain Sight
    Drugdealer

Publishers Weekly: Best Poetry Books of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Alive at the End of the World
  Saeed Jones
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
  Warsan Shire
• Customs
  Solmaz Sharif
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• [To] The Last [Be] Human
  Jorie Graham

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011]

• Activities of Daily Living
  Lisa Hsiao Chen
• All the Lovers in the Night
  Mieko Kawakami
• The Birdcatcher
  Gayl Jones
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• G-Man

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

  The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
  Kerri K. Greenidge
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty

Eliana Dockterman: The 10 Best Podcasts of 2022, as published by Time Magazine along with a recommended starter episode for each one.

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020]

1. Normal Gossip
2. The Superhero Complex
3. The Trojan Horse Affair
4. This Is Dating
5. Borderline Salty
6. Scam Goddess
7. The Tennis Podcast
8. Short History Of…
9. Ruined
10. Valley Heat

Jordan Cronk: Top Ten Films of 2022 as submitted to the Sight & Sound Poll, listed alphabetically. Check out his site for a few more highlights, like "Best TV Series," "Best Film Book," and "Best Film Podcast."

[see also The Ten Best Experimental Films of 2022 • Top Ten Films of 2021 • Top Ten Films of 2020 • The 50 Best Films of the 2010s • Top 20 Films of 2019 • Top 20 Films of 2018 • Top Ten Films of 2017]

• A Couple
  Frederick Wiseman
• Crimes of the Future
  David Cronenberg
• EO
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• The Fabelmans
  Steven Spielberg
• Human Flowers of Flesh
  Helena Wittmann
• De humani corporis fabrica
  Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel
• The Novelist's Film
  Hong Sang-soo
• Pacifiction
  Albert Serra
• Showing Up
  Kelly Reichardt
• Tales of the Purple House
  Abbas Fahdel

BookPage: Best Nonfiction of 2022

[see also The Best Nonfiction of 2023 • The Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• Also a Poet

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

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Half American

  The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
  Matthew F. Delmont
• How to Read Now

  Essays
  Elaine Castillo
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• In the Shadow of the Mountain

  A Memoir of Courage
  Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
• Inciting Joy

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

  The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
  Deborah Cohen
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Raising Lazarus

  Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis
  Beth Macy
• Red Paint

  The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
  Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• South to America

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

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tell Me Everything

  The Story of a Private Investigation
  Erika Krouse
• This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch

  The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It
  Tabitha Carvan
• Under the Skin

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

  Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
  Joseph Osmundson

BookPage: Best Fiction of 2022

[see also The Best Nonfiction of 2023 • The Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • Best Books of 2020: Nonfiction • Best Books of 2020: Fiction • Best Nonfiction Books of 2019 • Best Fiction Books of 2019]

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Calling for a Blanket Dance
  Oscar Hokeah
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• The Consequences
  Manuel Muñoz
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• How It Went

  Thirteen Late Stories of the Port William Membership
  Wendell Berry
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• Lessons in Chemistry
  Bonnie Garmus
• Natural History
  Andrea Barrett
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart

Kirkus Prize: Nonfiction 2022, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• In Sensorium

  Notes for My People
  Tanaïs

Finalists

• By Hands Now Known

  Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
  Margaret A. Burnham
• The Facemaker

  A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
  Lindsey Fitzharris
• The 1619 Project

  A New Origin Story
  Nikole Hannah-Jones (creator)
• These Precious Days
  Ann Patchett
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong

Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2022, awarded by Kirkus Reviews

[see also Fiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014]

Winner

• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

Finalists

• Scary Monsters

  A Novel in Two Parts
  Michelle De Kretser
• God's Children Are Little Broken Things
  Arinze Ifeakandu
• Mecca
  Susan Straight
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk