Year-End Lists

Literary Hub: Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022, although I only count 37

[see also 38 Favorite Books of 2024 • Our 48 Favorite Books of 2021 • Our 65 Favorite Books of 2020 • The 20 Best Novels of the 2010s • The 20 Best Works of Nonfiction of the 2010s • Favorite Books of 2018]

• The Marriage Portrait
  Maggie O'Farrell
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• Saint Sebastian's Abyss
  Mark Haber
• Elderflora

  A Modern History of Ancient Trees
  Jared Farmer
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• Dinosaurs
  Lydia Millet
• Babel

  An Arcane History
  R.F. Kuang
• Scorched Earth

  Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
  Jonathan Crary
• Patricia Wants to Cuddle
  Samantha Allen
• My Three Dads

  Patriarchy on the Great Plains
  Jessa Crispin
• Haven
  Emma Donoghue
• Fight Like Hell

  The Untold History of American Labor
  Kim Kelly
• Diary of a Void
  Emi Yagi
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• O
  Zeina Hashem Beck
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• A Woman's Battles and Transformations
  Édouard Louis
• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• The Bond King

  How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost it All
  Mary Childs
• The Disappearance of Josef Mengele
  Olivier Guez
• Fen, Bog and Swamp

  A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis
  Annie Proulx
• The Rabbit Hutch
  Tess Gunty
• Our Wives Under the Sea
  Julia Armfield
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Weasels in the Attic
  Hiroko Oyamada
• Kibogo
  Scholastique Mukasonga
• The Swimmers
  Julie Otsuka
• Paradais
  Fernanda Melchor
• An Honest Living
  Dwyer Murphy
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• The Red Arrow
  William Brewer
• Brother Alive
  Zain Khalid
• The Books of Jacob
  Olga Tokarczuk
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• But for I Am a Woman
  Sophia Stid