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