The 10 Best Audiobooks of 2022

I don’t think I’m alone in using audiobooks to entice myself into some daunting chore, whether it’s cleaning out the attic or beating back the relentless army of knotweed marching through my yard. According to my self-imposed rules, I may not listen to a particular, anticipated book until I get started on such a task. Could there be a purer way to judge literary pleasure than that a book makes you happy to get down on your knees and scrub, as long as you can go on listening to it? These are the audiobooks that made hours of drudgery fly by for me this year, the kind of stories and voices that swallowed me up and spit me out hours later as if no time at all had passed.