Year-End Lists

USA Today: Best Books of 2022

[see also 2025 • 2023 • 2021]

• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Star Wars

  Brotherhood
  Mike Chen
• Don't Know Tough
  Eli Cranor
• Booth
  Karen Joy Fowler
• Notes on an Execution
  Danya Kukafka
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• Life's Work

  A Memoir
  David Milch
• Read Dangerously

  The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
  Azar Nafisi
• A Thousand Steps
  T. Jefferson Parker
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham: Home Runs, Bad Calls, Crazy Fights, Big Swings, and a Hit
  Ron Shelton
• The Summer Place
  Jennifer Weiner
• Properties of Thirst
  Marianne Wiggins
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic
  Kevin Wilson
• To Paradise
  Hanya Yanagihara