Year-End Lists

Vulture: The Best Books of 2022, as published by New York Magazine

1. Manhunt
   Gretchen Felker-Martin
2. Easy Beauty
   Chloé Cooper Jones
3. The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On
   Franny Choi
4. Strangers to Ourselves

   Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
   Rachel Aviv
5. Siren Queen
   Nghi Vo
6. The Furrows
   Namwali Serpell
7. 2 A.M. in Little America
   Ken Kalfus
8. All This Could Be Different
   Sarah Thankam Mathews
9. Seduced by Story

   The Use and Abuse of Narrative
   Peter Brooks
10. X
    Davey Davis

Honorable Mentions (by U.S. release date)

• Fiona and Jane
  Jean Chen Ho
• Last Resort
  Andrew Lipstein
• Dilla Time

  The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm
  Dan Charnas
• Pure Colour
  Sheila Heti
• Vladimir
  Julia May Jonas
• Then the War

  And Selected Poems, 2007-2020
  Carl Phillips
• The Employees
  Olga Ravn
• Checkout 19
  Claire-Louise Bennett
• Run and Hide
  Pankaj Mishra
• Oedipus Tyrannos
  Sophocles
• The Doloriad
  Missouri Williams
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• A Tiny Upward Shove
  Melissa Chadburn
• Love Marriage
  Monica Ali
• The Women's House of Detention

  A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
  Hugh Ryan
• It Was All a Dream

  Biggie and the World That Made Him
  Justin Tinsley
• DJ Screw

  A Life in Slow Revolution
  Lance Scott Walker
• An Island
  Karen Jennings
• Avalon
  Nell Zink
• You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
  Akwaeke Emezi
• Fruiting Bodies
  Kathryn Harlan
• Mothercare

  On Obligation, Love, Death, and Ambivalence
  Lynne Tillman
• Afterlives
  Abdulrazak Gurnah
• My Phantoms
  Gwendoline Riley
• Bright Unbearable Reality

  Essays
  Anna Badkhen
• Toad
  Katherine Dunn