Year-End Lists

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An Immense World - Ed Yong

Favorite Books of 2022 Barack Obama

Afterlives - Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022 New Yorker

The Revolutionary - Stacy Schiff

The Best Nonfiction of 2022 New Yorker

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

The Best Books of 2022 Esquire

Under the Skin - Linda Villarosa

The Best Books of 2022 Atlantic

All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankam Mathews

The Best Books of 2022 BuzzFeed

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

The Best Books of 2022 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa

Time Is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022 BBC Culture

Dear Damage - Ashley Marie Farmer

Favorite Books of 2022 Salon

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

39 Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Best Books of 2022 Passerby

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

The Best Novels of 2022 Paste

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Ten Best Books of 2022 California Review of Books

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Best Books of 2022 Economist

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 Esquire

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

The Best Books of 2022 Chron: J. Howard Rosier

Vladimir - Julia May Jonas

16 Best Books of 2022 Vox: Constance Grady

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

Top 10 Books of 2022 People

Book Lovers - Emily Henry

The Best Books of 2022 Entertainment Weekly

Properties of Thirst - Marianne Wiggins

Best Literary Fiction of 2022 Library Journal

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Books of 2022 The Skinny

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

The 10 Best Fiction Books of 2022 Time: Annabel Gutterman

Liberation Day - George Saunders

Best Books of 2022 USA Today

Stay True - Hua Hsu

Our 38 Favorite Books of 2022 Lit Hub

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