The Best Books of 2022

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24 books

From historical fantasy and riveting romance to heartbreaking memoir and more — these are the books from 2022 we loved.

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Literary Fiction

If I Survive You

Jonathan Escoffery, 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Gabrielle Zevin, 2022

The Book of Goose

All This Could Be Different

Sarah Thankam Mathews, 2022

The Boy with a Bird in His Chest

Emme Lund, 2022

If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English

Noor Naga, 2022

Romance

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty

Akwaeke Emezi, 2022

Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband?

Lizzie Damilola Blackburn, 2022

Mistakes Were Made

Meryl Wilsner, 2022

Nonfiction

Easy Beauty

Chloé Cooper Jones, 2022

Fight Like Hell

The Untold History of American Labor

Kim Kelly, 2022

Finale

Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim

Crying in the Bathroom

Erika L. Sánchez, 2022

High-Risk Homosexual

Edgar Gomez, 2022

Ducks

Two Years in the Oil Sands

Kate Beaton, 2022

A Heart That Works

Rob Delaney, 2022

Constructing a Nervous System

Margo Jefferson, 2022

Historical

The Hacienda

Isabel Cañas, 2022

Lavender House

Lev AC Rosen, 2022

Fantasy

Babel

Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

R. F. Kuang, 2022

Siren Queen

When Women Were Dragons

Kelly Barnhill, 2022

Mystery/Thriller

A Novel Obsession

Caitlin Barasch, 2022

The Violin Conspiracy

Brendan Slocumb, 2022