Year-End Lists

The San Francisco Chronicle: Favorite Books of 2022

Fiction

• On the Rooftop
  Margaret Wilkerson Sexton
• Be Brief and Tell Them Everything
  Brad Listi
• Little Rabbit
  Alyssa Songsiridej
• Properties of Thirst
  Marianne Wiggins
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Brother Sleep
  Aldo Amparán
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Animal Life
  Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Stella Maris
  Cormac McCarthy
• Run and Hide
  Pankaj Mishra
• A Woman Of Endurance
  Dahlma Llanos-Figueroa
• The Presence of Absence
  Simon Van Booy
• The Hero of This Book
  Elizabeth McCracken
• Shit Cassandra Saw
  Gwen E. Kirby

Nonfiction

• The Klamath Mountains

  A Natural History
  Michael Kauffmann and Justin Garwood
• Essential Labor

  Mothering as Social Change
  Angela Garbes
• I'm Not Broken
  Jesse Leon
• Dirtbag, Massachusetts

  A Confessional
  Isaac Fitzgerald
• Inciting Joy

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• Crying in the Bathroom
  Erika L. Sánchez
• Shine Bright

  A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop
  Danyel Smith
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• The Method

  How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
  Isaac Butler
• Still No Word from You

  Notes in the Margin
  Peter Orner
• Our Red Book

  Intimate Histories of Periods, Growing Changing
  Rachel Kauder Nalebuff (editor)
• Screaming on the Inside

  The Unsustainability of American Motherhood
  Jessica Grose