Year-End Lists

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Body Work - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Electric Lit Favorite Novels of 2022

Liberation Day - George Saunders

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2022

Checkout 19 - Claire-Louise Bennett

New Yorker The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

New Yorker The Best Nonfiction of 2022

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta - James Hannaham

Esquire The Best Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Atlantic The Best Books of 2022

All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankam Mathews

BuzzFeed The Best Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa The Best Books of 2022

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

BBC Culture The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

Salon Favorite Books of 2022

The Candy House - Jennifer Egan

Vanity Fair 39 Best Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Passerby Best Books of 2022

Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel

Paste The Best Novels of 2022

Trust - Hernan Diaz

California Review of Books Ten Best Books of 2022

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Economist Best Books of 2022

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

Esquire The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

Chron: J. Howard Rosier The Best Books of 2022

If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

Vox: Constance Grady 16 Best Books of 2022

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

People Top 10 Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Entertainment Weekly The Best Books of 2022

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Library Journal Best Literary Fiction of 2022

Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

The Skinny Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Time: Annabel Gutterman The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022

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