Year-End Lists

BuzzFeed: The Best Books of 2022

[see also 2021 • 2010s • 2019 • 2018]

Literary Fiction

• If I Survive You
  Jonathan Escoffery
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
  Gabrielle Zevin
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• All This Could Be Different
  Sarah Thankam Mathews
• The Boy with a Bird in His Chest
  Emme Lund
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
  Noor Naga

Romance

• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?
  Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
• Mistakes Were Made
  Meryl Wilsner

Nonfiction

• Easy Beauty
  Chloé Cooper Jones
• Fight Like Hell

  The Untold History of American Labor
  Kim Kelly
• Finale

  Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
  D.T. Max
• Crying in the Bathroom
  Erika L. Sánchez
• High-Risk Homosexual
  Edgar Gomez
• Ducks

  Two Years in the Oil Sands
  Kate Beaton
• A Heart That Works
  Rob Delaney
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson

Historical

• The Hacienda
  Isabel Cañas
• Lavender House
  Lev A.C. Rosen

Fantasy

• Babel

  An Arcane History
  R.F. Kuang
• Siren Queen
  Nghi Vo
• When Women Were Dragons
  Kelly Barnhill

Mystery/Thriller

• A Novel Obsession
  Caitlin Barasch
• The Violin Conspiracy
  Brendan Slocumb