Year-End Lists

Christopher Borrelli: The 10 Best Books of 2022, as published by The Chicago Tribune, in order of authors' names

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018]

• Planes
  Peter C. Baker
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Philosophy of Modern Song
  Bob Dylan
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• The Devil Takes You Home
  Gabino Iglesias
• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry
• My Phantoms
  Gwendoline Riley
• Super-Infinite

  The Transformations of John Donne
  Katherine Rundell
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson

Plus 10 more notable books and honorable mentions

• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• American Midnight

  The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  Adam Hochschild
• Fairy Tale
  Stephen King
• What Moves the Dead
  T. Kingfisher
• Art Is Life

  Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night
  Jerry Saltz
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• Camera Man

  Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century
  Dana Stevens
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin

Jessica Ferri: The 5 Best Books of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2021]

• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• The Kingdom of Sand
  Andrew Holleran
• The Longcut
  Emily Hall
• Love Me Tender
  Constance Debré

Mary Ann Gwinn: The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2021]

• Path Lit by Lightning

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• I Used to Live Here Once

  The Haunted Life of Jean Rhys
  Miranda Seymour
• The Bald Eagle

  The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
  Jack E. Davis
• Who Killed Jane Stanford?

  A Gilded Age Tale of Murder, Deceit, Spirits and the Birth of a University
  Richard White
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff

Bethanne Patrick: The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2021]

• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• Human Blues
  Elisa Albert
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery

Mark Athitakis: The 5 Best Novels of 2022, as published by The Los Angeles Times

[see also 2023 • 2021]

• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Very Cold People
  Sarah Manguso
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Paradais
  Fernanda Melchor
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell

Dan Kois: The 10 Best Books of 2022, as published by Slate

[see also 2023 • 2020 • 2019]

• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?

  A Memoir
  Séamas O'Reilly
• Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
  James Hannaham
• The English Understand Wool
  Helen DeWitt
• A frog in the fall (and later on)
  Linnea Sterte
• A Half-Built Garden
  Ruthanna Emrys
• Last Resort
  Andrew Lipstein
• Mothercare

  On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
  Lynne Tillman
• Peter Hujar's Day
  Linda Rosenkrantz
• There Are No Accidents
  Jessie Singer

Laura Miller: The 10 Best Books of 2022, as published by Slate

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017]

• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Mountain in the Sea
  Ray Nayler
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• Scary Monsters

  A Novel in Two Parts
  Michelle De Kretser
• Shrines of Gaiety
  Kate Atkinson
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• Tell Me Everything

  The Story of a Private Investigation
  Erika Krouse
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

Maureen Corrigan: Favorite Books of 2022, as aired on NPR’s Fresh Air

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

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• The Facemaker

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

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• Signal Fires
  Dani Shapiro
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Foster
  Claire Keegan
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout

The New York Times: The 10 Best Books of 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 100 Notable Books of 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2020 • 100 Notable Books of 2019 • The 10 Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The 10 Best Books of 2014 • The 10 Best Books of 2013 • 100 Notable Books of 2012 • 10 Best Books of 2012 • 100 Notable Books of 2011 • Ten Best Books of 2011]

Fiction

• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz

Nonfiction

• An Immense World

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

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole

Oprah Daily: Our Favorite Books of 2022, seemingly in alphabetical order with fiction first but numbered as follows

[see also 2023 • 2021]

1. Afterlives
   Abdulrazak Gurnah
2. All the Lovers in the Night
   Mieko Kawakami
3. Black Cake
   Charmaine Wilkerson
4. Demon Copperhead
   Barbara Kingsolver
5. Dinosaurs
   Lydia Millet
6. French Braid
   Anne Tyler
7. Homesickness
   Colin Barrett
8. Honey & Spice
   Bolu Babalola
9. If I Survive You
   Jonathan Escoffery
10. Killers of a Certain Age
    Deanna Raybourn
11. Lessons in Chemistry
    Bonnie Garmus
12. Lucy by the Sea
    Elizabeth Strout
13. Liberation Day
    George Saunders
14. Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century
    Jennifer Homans
15. Night of the Living Rez
    Morgan Talty
16. Nightcrawling
    Leila Mottley
17. Nobody Gets Out Alive

    Stories
    Leigh Newman
18. Our Missing Hearts
    Celeste Ng
19. People Person
    Candice Carty-Williams
20. Sacrificio
    Ernesto Mestre-Reed
21. Sea of Tranquility
    Emily St. John Mandel
22. Seven Empty Houses
    Samanta Schweblin
23. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
    Laura Warrell
24. Thank You, Mr. Nixon
    Gish Jen
25. The Birdcatcher
    Gayl Jones
26. The Candy House
    Jennifer Egan
27. The Furrows
    Namwali Serpell
28. The Hero of This Book
    Elizabeth McCracken
29. The Rabbit Hutch
    Tess Gunty
30. The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy
31. The School for Good Mothers
    Jessamine Chan
32. To Paradise
    Hanya Yanagihara
33. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin
34. Trust
    Hernan Diaz
35. Winter Work
    Dan Fesperman
36. By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
    Margaret A. Burnham
37. Constructing a Nervous System

    A Memoir
    Margo Jefferson
38. Finding Me
    Viola Davis
39. An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong
40. Lady Justice

    Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
    Dahlia Lithwick
41. Lost & Found

    A Memoir
    Kathryn Schulz
42. South to America

    A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    Imani Perry
43. The Grimkes

    The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
    Kerri K. Greenidge
44. The Revolutionary

    Samuel Adams
    Stacy Schiff
45. The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    Siddhartha Mukherjee