Best Nonfiction of 2022

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23 books

This year’s best nonfiction books ran the gamut from timely to timeless. Meghan O’Rourke, Siddhartha Mukherjee and Linda Villarosa broke new ground in our understanding of illness. Memoirs by fiction writers including Amy Bloom, Ingrid Rojas Contreras and Erika Krouse told gripping true stories with a novelist’s flair. And beloved favorites such as Ed Yong, Ross Gay and Stacy Schiff rose to meet their fans’ high expectations.

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Also a Poet

Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me

Ada Calhoun, 2022

Free

A Child and a Country at the End of History

Half American

The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad

Matthew F. Delmont, 2022

How to Read Now

Elaine Castillo, 2022

An Immense World

How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

In Love

A Memoir of Love and Loss

Amy Bloom, 2022

In the Shadow of the Mountain

A Memoir of Courage

Silvia Vasquez-Lavado, 2023

Inciting Joy

The Invisible Kingdom

Reimagining Chronic Illness

Meghan O'Rourke, 2022

Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

The Reporters Who Took On a World at War

Deborah Cohen, 2022

The Man Who Could Move Clouds

Ingrid Rojas Contreras, 2022

Raising Lazarus

Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis

Beth Macy, 2022

Red Paint

The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk

Sasha LaPointe, 2022

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff, 2022

River of the Gods

Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard, 2022

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Siddhartha Mukherjee, 2022

South to America

A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Imani Perry, 2022

Stay True

Strangers to Ourselves

Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us

Rachel Aviv, 2022

Tell Me Everything

The Story of a Private Investigation

Erika Krouse, 2022

This Is Not a Book About Benedict Cumberbatch

The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends On It

Tabitha Carvan, 2022

Under the Skin

The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation

Linda Villarosa, 2022

Virology: Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between

Joseph Osmundson, 2022