Year-End Lists

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022

• 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