Year-End Lists

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The Invisible Kingdom - Meghan O’Rourke

10 Best Books of 2022 Publishers Weekly

An Immense World - Ed Yong

Best Nonfiction of 2022 BookPage

The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

Best Fiction of 2022 BookPage

Diego Garcia - Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

Best Fiction of 2022 Goldsmiths Prize

In Sensorium - Tanaïs

Nonfiction 2022 Kirkus Prize

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Fiction 2022 Kirkus Prize

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

Best Fiction of 2022 The Booker Prize

The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

Best Fiction of 2022 Women's Prize

The Art of Losing - Alice Zetiner

2022 Dublin Literary Award

The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine

Fiction 2022 PEN/Faulkner Award

Girlhood - Melissa Febos

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021 Electric Lit

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

Favorite Novels of 2021 Electric Lit

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

The 20 Best Books of 2021 Atlantic

Beautiful World, Where Are You - Sally Rooney

40 Best Books of 2021 Parade Magazine

Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados

Best Books of 2021 Passerby

Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit

Best Books of 2021 New Statesman

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

The 5 Best Novels of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick

The Agitators - Dorothy Wickenden

The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mary Ann Gwinn

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Favorite Books of 2021 Barack Obama

Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

The Best Books of 2021 Thrillist

Harrow - Joy Williams

The 5 Best Books of 2021 Los Angeles Times: Jessica Ferri

Infinite Country - Patricia Engel

The 10 Best Books of 2021 Entertainment Weekly

The 50 Best Books of 2021 Esquire

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