The Best Books We Read in 2022

by The New Yorker

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24 books

Each week, our editors and critics recommend the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about books. Find our essential reads of 2022 below, or check out our latest reviews.

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See the source list and commentary at www.newyorker.com

Afterlives

Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2021

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands

Kelly Lytle Hernández, 2022

The Book of Goose

The Books of Jacob

Olga Tokarczuk, 2022

Checkout 19

Claire-Louise Bennett, 2022

Chilean Poet

Alejandro Zambra, 2022

Constructing a Nervous System

Margo Jefferson, 2022

Continuous Creation

Les Murray, 2022

Customs

Solmaz Sharif, 2023

G-Man

J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century

Beverly Gage, 2022

Getting Lost

Annie Ernaux, 2022

The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories

Jamil Jan Kochai, 2022

The Invisible Kingdom

Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke, 2022

The Last White Man

Mohsin Hamid, 2022

Lessons

Ian McEwan, 2022

Magnificent Rebels

The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf, 2022

The Rabbit Hutch

Tess Gunty, 2022

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff, 2022

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2022

Stay True

Strangers to Ourselves

Stories of Unsettled Minds

Rachel Aviv, 2022

Trust

Hernan Diaz, 2022

We Don't Know Ourselves

A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958

Fintan O'Toole, 2022