Year-End Lists

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

New York Public Library: Best Books of 2022

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

• The Genesis of Misery
  Neon Yang
• The High Desert

  Black. Punk. Nowhere.
  James Spooner
• A Lady for a Duke
  Alexis Hall
• Nettle & Bone
  T. Kingfisher
• Path of Totality
  Niina Pollari
• Shutter
  Ramona Emerson
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

  The Last Ronin
  Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, Tom Waltz
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas

Laura Battle: Best Fiction Books of 2022, as published by Financial Times

• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Lessons
  Ian McEwan
• The Marriage Portrait
  Maggie O'Farrell
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Act of Oblivion
  Robert Harris
• Briefly, A Delicious Life
  Nell Stevens
• Best of Friends
  Kamila Shamsie
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Bournville
  Jonathan Coe
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Stella Maris
  Cormac McCarthy
• Shrines of Gaiety
  Kate Atkinson

The New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 100 Notable Books of 2023 • The 10 Best 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]

• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• American Midnight

  The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  Adam Hochschild
• The Arc of a Covenant

  The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People
  Walter Russell Mead
• Avalon
  Nell Zink
• The Bangalore Detectives Club
  Harini Nagendra
• Best Barbarian
  Roger Reeves
• Black Folk Could Fly

  Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
  Randall Kenan
• Bliss Montage
  Ling Ma
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Breathless

  The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus
  David Quammen
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Case Study
  Graeme Macrae Burnet
• A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
  Kai-Cheung Dung
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Companion Piece
  Ali Smith
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
  Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• The Dead Romantics
  Ashley Poston
• Dead-End Memories
  Banana Yoshimoto
• Democracy's Data

  The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them
  Dan Bouk
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
  James Hannaham
• Dr. No
  Percival Everett
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• Everything I Need I Get from You

  How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
  Kaitlyn Tiffany
• Fire Season

  Selected Essays 1984–2021
  Gary Indiana
• Flung Out of Space

  Inspired by the Indecent Adventures of Patricia Highsmith
  Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
• Four Treasures of the Sky
  Jenny Tinghui Zhang
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• G-Man

  J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
  Beverly Gage
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• Gods of Want
  K-Ming Chang
• The Grimkes

  The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
  Kerri K. Greenidge
• Half American

  The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
  Matthew F. Delmont
• Hokuloa Road
  Elizabeth Hand
• Homesickness
  Colin Barrett
• How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
  Angie Cruz
• The Hurting Kind
  Ada Limón
• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Immortal King Rao
  Vauhini Vara
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Indelible City

  Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
  Louisa Lim
• Index, A History of the

  A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  Dennis Duncan
• Indigenous Continent

  The Epic Contest for North America
  Pekka Hämäläinen
• Joan Is Okay
  Weike Wang
• Kiki Man Ray

  Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
  Mark Braude
• Kingdom of Characters

  The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
  Jing Tsu
• The Latecomer
  Jean Hanff Korelitz
• Legacy of Violence

  A History of the British Empire
  Caroline Elkins
• Lessons in Chemistry
  Bonnie Garmus
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• Life Between the Tides
  Adam Nicolson
• Lucy by the Sea
  Elizabeth Strout
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• Metaphysical Animals

  How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
  Clare Mac Cumhaill & Rachael Wiseman
• Motherthing
  Ainslie Hogarth
• Mr. B

  George Balanchine's 20th Century
  Jennifer Homans
• My Government Means to Kill Me
  Rasheed Newson
• Night of the Living Rez
  Morgan Talty
• Now Do You Know Where You Are
  Dana Levin
• The Old Woman with the Knife
  Gu Byeong-mo
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Palace Papers

  Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
  Tina Brown
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Path Lit by Lightning

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• Picasso's War

  How Modern Art Came to America
  Hugh Eakin
• Pure Colour
  Sheila Heti
• The Quiet Before

  On the Unexpected Origins of Radical Ideas
  Gal Beckerman
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Red Blossom in Snow
  Jeannie Lin
• The Return of Faraz Ali
  Aamina Ahmad
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Secret City

  The Hidden History of Gay Washington
  James Kirchick
• Seek and Hide

  The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy
  Amy Gajda
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• Shy

  The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
  Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Son of Elsewhere

  A Memoir in Pieces
  Elamin Abdelmahmoud
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Super-Infinite

  The Transformations of John Donne
  Katherine Rundell
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Trayvon Generation
  Elizabeth Alexander
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• Walking the Bowl

  A True Story of Murder and Survival Among the Street Children of Lusaka
  Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• When McKinsey Comes to Town

  The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
  Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
• Yonder
  Jabari Asim
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
  Akwaeke Emezi

Chicago Public Library: Top 10 Books of 2022

[see also 2023 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014]

• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Night of the Living Rez
  Morgan Talty
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin

Powell's Books: Best Nonfiction of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• 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

Powell's Books: Best Fiction of 2022

[see also Best Nonfiction of 2023 • Best Fiction of 2023 • Best Nonfiction of 2022 • The 14 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 • The 18 Best Novels of 2021 • Best Fiction of 2020 • Best Nonfiction of 2020 • Best Fiction of 2019 • Best Nonfiction of 2019 • Best Fiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2018 • Best Nonfiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2017 • Best Fiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction of 2016 • Best Nonfiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction Books of 2015 • Best Fiction of 2014 • Best Nonfiction of 2014]

• Thrust
  Lidia Yuknavitch
• The Furrows
  Namwali Serpell
• Some of Them Will Carry Me
  Giada Scodellaro
• Jawbone
  Mónica Ojeda
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Scattered All Over the Earth
  Yoko Tawada
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• Singing Lessons for the Stylish Canary
  Laura Stanfill
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• Bliss Montage
  Ling Ma
• Lungfish
  Meghan Gilliss
• Seven Empty Houses
  Samanta Schweblin
• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• Mouth to Mouth
  Antoine Wilson
• The Pachinko Parlour
  Elisa Shua Dusapin
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Wall
  Marlen Haushofer
• This Time Tomorrow
  Emma Straub
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Less Is Lost
  Andrew Sean Greer
• When We Were Birds
  Ayanna Lloyd Banwo
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas

The Washington Post: 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2022

[see also The 10 Best Books of 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2023 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2022 • The 10 Best Books of 2022 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2021 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2021 • The 10 Best Books of 2021 • 10 Best Books of 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction in 2020 • 50 Notable Works of Fiction in 2020 • Best Books of 2019 • 10 Best Books of 2018 • 100 Notable Books of 2018 • 10 Best Books of 2017 • The 10 Best Books of 2016 • 10 Best Books of 2015 • The Ten Best Books of 2014 • Top 10 Books of 2013 • The 10 Best Books of 2012]

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• American Midnight

  The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis
  Adam Hochschild
• Ancestor Trouble

  A Reckoning and a Reconciliation
  Maud Newton
• As It Turns Out

  Thinking About Edie and Andy
  Alice Sedgwick Wohl
• Because Our Fathers Lied

  A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today
  Craig McNamara
• Cheap Land Colorado

  Off-Gridders at America's Edge
  Ted Conover
• Come Back in September

  A Literary Education on West Sixty-Seventh Street, Manhattan
  Darryl Pinckney
• Confidence Man

  The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
  Maggie Haberman
• Desperate Remedies

  Psychiatry's Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness
  Andrew Scull
• Diary of a Misfit

  A Memoir and a Mystery
  Casey Parks
• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Eliot After "The Waste Land"
  Robert Crawford
• Esmond and Ilia

  An Unreliable Memoir
  Marina Warner
• Finding Me
  Viola Davis
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• The Great Stewardess Rebellion

  How Women Launched a Workplace Revolution at 30,000 Feet
  Nell McShane Wulfhart
• His Name Is George Floyd

  One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
• Imagining the End

  Mourning and Ethical Life
  Jonathan Lear
• The Impossible City

  A Hong Kong Memoir
  Karen Cheung
• Index, A History of the

  A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
  Dennis Duncan
• The Inheritors

  An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning
  Eve Fairbanks
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Lady Justice

  Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
  Dahlia Lithwick
• Lessons from the Edge

  A Memoir
  Marie Yovanovitch
• A Life Of Picasso: The Minotaur Years: 1933-1943
  John Richardson
• Lost & Found

  A Memoir
  Kathryn Schulz
• Magnificent Rebels

  The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
  Andrea Wulf
• Newsroom Confidential

  Lessons (and Worries) from an Ink-Stained Life
  Margaret Sullivan
• The Palace Papers

  Inside the House of Windsor - the Truth and the Turmoil
  Tina Brown
• Path Lit by Lightning

  The Life of Jim Thorpe
  David Maraniss
• README.txt
  Chelsea Manning
• Reality+

  Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy
  David J. Chalmers
• Rickey

  The Life and Legend of an American Original
  Howard Bryant
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• Sandy Hook

  An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth
  Elizabeth Williamson
• Shy

  The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
  Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
• Solito

  A Memoir
  Javier Zamora
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tasha

  A Son's Memoir
  Brian Morton
• This Body I Wore

  A Memoir
  Diana Goetsch
• Truly, Madly

  Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, and the Romance of the Century
  Stephen Galloway
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• The War of Nerves

  Inside the Cold War Mind
  Martin Sixsmith
• Watergate

  A New History
  Garrett M. Graff
• Ways and Means

  Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War
  Roger Lowenstein
• We Don't Know Ourselves

  A Personal History of Modern Ireland
  Fintan O'Toole
• When McKinsey Comes to Town

  The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
  Walt Bogdanich & Michael Forsythe
• You Don't Know Us Negroes and Other Essays
  Zora Neale Hurston