Year-End Lists

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2022

• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• The Method

  How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
  Isaac Butler
• The Viral Underclass

  The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide
  Steven W. Thrasher
• Body Work

  The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
  Melissa Febos
• An Immense World

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

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• The Nineties
  Chuck Klosterman
• Dilla Time

  The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
  Dan Charnas
• Smahtguy

  The Life and Times of Barney Frank
  Eric Orner
• Also a Poet

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

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

  Letter to My Transgender Daughter
  Carolyn Hays
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Allow Me to Retort

  A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution
  Elie Mystal