Top Books of 2022
The best of the best from a great year in books!
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER Winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection New England Book Award Winner, Fiction A Finalist for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Fiction, The Story... Read more
"An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of our time. An inspiration.... Read more
Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize An acclaimed poet further extends his range into the realm of speculative fiction, while addressing issues as varied as abolition, Black ecological conscious... Read more
Longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack ... Read more
USA TODAY BESTSELLER * MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD NOMINEE * 2022 BOOKPAGE BEST MYSTERIES AND SUSPENSE * LIBRARY READS TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2022 * CRIME READS BEST NEW CRIME FICTION"Investigations are laun... Read more
A NEW YORK TIMES "TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022"An Oprah's Book Club Selection An Instant New York Times Bestseller An Instant Wall Street Journal Bestseller A #1 Washington Post Bestseller "Demon is a... Read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—includi... Read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars: the story of another summer, another generation—and the secrets that will haunt them for deca... Read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Meet Elizabeth Zott: “a gifted research chemist, absurdly self-assured and immune to social convention” (The Washington Post) in 1960s California... Read more
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • ROXANE GAY'S AUDACIOUS BOOK CLUB PICK • FINALIST FOR THE URSULA K. LE GUIN PRIZE"Moving and thought-provoking . ... Read more
A New York Times Notable Book of 2022!The New York Times Bestseller and Good Morning America Book Club Pick!"I LOVED this book! ...Funny, breathtaking, hopeful, and dreamy.”—Ali Hazelwo... Read more
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF THE ECONOMIST TOP SIX BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF SLATE'S TOP TEN BOO... Read more
A clever and steamy queer romantic comedy about taking chances and accepting love—with all its complications—from the author of Astrid Parker Doesn't Fail. Delilah Green swore she would... Read more
Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki ... Read more
An intimate and electrifying collection of essays from the New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Delights In these gorgeously written and timely pieces, prize-winning poet and author Ro... Read more
A playful-yet-comprehensive cookbook that lets anyone create bagels, schmears, and other deli favorites at home.Bagel lovers rejoice! This delightful cookbook makes it easy to bake fresh bagels in ... Read more
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ • The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about • "Inventive, heartbreaking and acutely funny."—The Guard... Read more
One of The New York Times 100 Notable books of 2022 • One of NPR's Books We Love in 2022 • Named a Best Book of the Year by Esquire, Vox, Philadelphia Inquirer, and Literary Hub Shortli... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the... Read more
A mind-expanding, cheerfully dystopian new novel by Yoko Tawada, winner of the 2022 National Book Award Welcome to the not-too-distant future: Japan, having vanished from the face of the earth, is ... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK • A “tender, beautiful and radiantly outraged” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that follows a year of seis... Read more
Take pride in who you are! This inspiring history of the LGBTQ+ community enlightens young readers on the true timeline of LGBTQ+ history around the world, the lives of important figures like Harve... Read more
"All three narrators are Puerto Rican–born and deliver the Spanish passages with musical grace, thereby enhancing an already fine novel." —The Washington Post"The narrators' accents and... Read more
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life“Achingly exquis... Read more
*"A treasure of a novel...read it and be healed." —Justin Cronin * "Beautifully written and emotion-packed." —Harlan Coben * From the New York Times bestselling author of The Silver Lin... Read more
A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • Agripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art, bythe New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu&ldqu... Read more
The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything.""What am I, bologna?" Mary Rodgers (1931–2014) often said. She was referring to being ... Read more
An instant New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 • Named a Best Book of 2022 by People, TIME Magazine, The Washington Post, USA Today, NPR, Los Angeles Times, ... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set agai... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The award-winning, best-selling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from&... Read more
A Good Morning America Buzz Pick, a Best Romance of 2022 by The New York Times and The Washington Post, and a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vulture, Harper's Bazaar, Thrillist, Esse... Read more
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE NEXT PICK * 6 STARRED REVIEWS Secrets. Lies. Bad choices. Dangerous magic. . . . From NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Melissa Albert comes OUR CROOKED HEARTS, a con... Read more
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE; SHORT-LISTED FOR THE J. ANTHONY LUKAS PRIZE; A BCALA 2023 HONOR NONFICTION AWARD WINNER. A landmark biography by two prizewinn... Read more
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: BUZZFEED, GOODREADS, BOOKRIOT • A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions o... Read more
Chronicling the story of the last Africans brought illegally to America in 1860, African Town is a powerful and stunning novel-in-verse.Cover may vary.In 1860, long after the United States outlawed... Read more
FINALIST FOR THE 2023 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD. NOMINATED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION, THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE JOHN LEONARD PRIZE, THE 2023 PEN/JEAN STEIN OPEN BOOK AWARD, ... Read more
A warm and uplifting novel about an isolated witch whose opportunity to embrace a quirky new family—and a new love—changes the course of her life. As one of the few witches in Britain, ... Read more
A story of queer love and working-class families, Young Mungo is the brilliant second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainAcclaimed as one of the best books of the year by NPR... Read more
"By far the best book I've read this year." —Roxane Gay #1 Best Book of 2022 (Vulture) A Best Horror Novel of All Time (Cosmopolitan) One of the Best Horror Novels of 2022 (Esquire, Library... Read more
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"Robert Bathurst performs this 18th Inspector Gamache mystery with the assurance of one who knows the village of Three Pines and its (mostly) gentle residents well....fans are in for a treat." - Au... Read more
Mexican Gothic meets Rebecca in this debut supernatural suspense novel, set in the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence, about a remote house, a sinister haunting, and the woman pulled into... Read more
From a Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author and poet comes a galvanizing meditation on the power of art and culture to illuminate America's unresolved problem with race... Read more
"Narrator Katharine Chin's outstanding performance will have listeners weeping as they hear Zhang's debut novel, based on actual events." – Library Journal (Starred Review)"Reader Katharine C... Read more
A New York Times Notable Book and Editors' Choice Book A TIME, Washington Post, and New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Book Marks Best Reviewed Book of 2022 A playful history of the humble index and i... Read more
A #1 New York Times Bestseller and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a s... Read more
An instant #1 New York Times Bestseller!From the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winning author Kwame Alexander, comes the first book in a searing, breathtaking trilogy th... Read more
The islanders have only three rules: don't stick your nose where it's not wanted, don't mention the war, and never let your guard down during October. Leigh Welles has not set foot in on the island... Read more
*INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER**INSTANT #1 INDIE BESTSELLER**INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER*From the New York Times bestselling author of One Last Stop and Red, White & Royal Blue comes a roma... Read more
Before there was Kate Beaton, New York Times bestselling cartoonist of Hark! A Vagrant, there was Katie Beaton of the Cape Breton Beaton, specifically Mabou, a tight-knit seaside community where th... Read more
A witchy, atmospheric lesbian contemporary romance set in Salem—from the acclaimed author of Fans of the Impossible Life. Perfect for fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli.Seventeen-year-o... Read more
RECOMMENDED BY GILLIAN FLYNN ON THE TODAY SHOW • A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white rust belt town. But she's not the first—and she may not be the last. ... Read more
A TIME Top 10 Fiction Book of 2022 An NPR, Book Riot, Chicago Public Library, Tor.com, South China Morning Post, Ms. Magazine, and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022 2023 Pacific Northwest Book Priz... Read more
This program is read by actor, singer, and dancer Jelani Alladin, who originated the role of Kristoff in Broadway's Frozen musical.A fierce and riveting queer coming-of-age story following the pers... Read more
**SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE, "10 BEST HISTORY BOOKS OF 2022"** **AMAZON, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH (Nonfiction)"** **APPLE, "BEST BOOK OF THE MONTH"** From a historian a... Read more
In his English language debut, Santiago H. Amigorena writes to fight the silence that "has stifled [him] since [he] was born", weaving together fiction, biography, and memoir to distill a stirring ... Read more
A NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A NEW YORKER "ESSENTIAL READ"NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER AND VOGUE“Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talen... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • Sam and Sadie—two college friends, often in love, but never lovers—become creative partners in a dazzling and intricately imagined world of video game ... Read more
As Seen on The TODAY Show!Called One of the Best Crime Novels of the Year by New York Times * NPR * New York Post * Washington Post * Buzzfeed * South Florida Sun-Sentinel * Library Journal * Crime... Read more
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award • One of the New York Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year • Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize “A triumph.&... Read more
In this uplifting, contemporary Native American story, River is recovering from illness and can't dance at the powwow this year. Will she ever dance again?River wants so badly to dance at powwow da... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning auth... Read more
NATIONAL BESTSELLER New York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022 Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus Reviews Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence "I ca... Read more
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK • “A heartwarming mystery with a lovable oddball at its center” (Real Simple), this cozy whodunit ... Read more
A New York Times Bestseller!A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!"Remarkably Bright Creatures is a beautiful examination of how loneliness can be transformed, cracked open, with the slightes... Read more
The acclaimed national and international bestseller"Epic, romantic, and enthralling from start to finish."—Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series"An all-... Read more
From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect f... Read more
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022 ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOKS OF 2022ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BOOKER... Read more
For a seemingly perfect family, a single word will change everything in this edge‑of‑your‑seat thriller for fans of The Silent Patient and The Whisper Man.It's early summ... Read more
A New York Times Best Thriller of the Year"Terrific. You might come for the mystery, but you will stay for the sheer energy."—New York Times Book ReviewAn utterly delicious debut thriller that tell... Read more
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!“This Golden Girls meets James Bond thriller is a journey you want to be part of.” -BuzzfeedOlder women often feel invisible, but sometimes that&rsq... Read more
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The first in a charming, joyful crime series set in 1920s Bangalore, featuring sari-wearing detective Kaveri and her husband Ramu. Perfect for fans of Alex... Read more
A Kirkus and Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2022!From beloved African American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston comes a moving adaptation by National Book Award winner and #1 New York Times bestselling ... Read more
"A book that draws us in to the strange beauty of what we so often run away from." — Robin Ince, author of The Importance of Being InterestedIn this eye-opening and entertaining work of popul... Read more
"Real, raw, magnificent—Before I Let Go is the beautiful angst I love to read." —Colleen Hoover, #1 New York Times bestselling author Their love was supposed to last forever. But when l... Read more
A New York Times Notable Book A Book Riot Best Book of 2022 A personal, social, and intellectual self-portrait of the beloved and enormously influential late Randall Kenan, a master of both fictio... Read more
An Indigenous legend about how four extraordinary individuals of dual male and female spirit, or Mahu, brought healing arts from Tahiti to Hawaii, based on the Academy Award–contending s... Read more
"Dolores del Río bursts to life in this vivid, well-researched portrayal. Her iconic feline elegance and brash spirit dominates every page, but it's her defiance to live life on her own term... Read more
LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD AND THE STORY PRIZE Named a BEST BOOK OF 2022 by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, and Electric Lit From a prizewinning author comes an "el... Read more
MacArthur "genius" and Booker Prize winner George Saunders returns with a collection of short stories that make sense of our increasingly troubled world, his first since the New York Times bestsell... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES AND LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A highly personal love letter to the beauty and bounty of México in more than 100 transportive recipes, from the beloved food writer and... Read more
New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American L... Read more
Pure Colour is a galaxy of an audiobook: explosive, celestially bright, huge, and streaked with beauty. It is a contemporary bible, an atlas of feeling, and an absurdly funny guide to the great (an... Read more
This program is read by the author and includes a bonus PDF of detailed notes.A spellbinding and subversive queer recasting of Arthurian myth by the legendary author of HildThe girl knows she has a... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY • Two estranged siblings delve into their mother’s hidden past—and how it all connects to ... Read more
From the author of My Oxford Year, Julia Whelan's uplifting novel tells the story of a former actress turned successful audiobook narrator—who has lost sight of her dreams after a tragic acci... Read more
A TIME, Washington Post, Amazon, BuzzFeed, Poets & Writers, Lambda Literary, Publishers Weekly, them, The Week, Book Riot, Philadelphia Inquirer, Book and Film Globe, AllArts, and Debutiful Bes... Read more
The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing"By 1930, no place in the world was less well explore... Read more
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AND NPR“Stunning not only on account of the author’s talent, of which there is clearly plenty, but also in its humanity.” &mdas... Read more
A refreshingly modern fairy tale and instant New York Times bestseller that Love Hypothesis author Ali Hazelwood hails as "an uplifting, feel-good, romantic read." After a... Read more
Stonewall Book Awards—Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's & Young Adult Literature Honor Book From the author of the critically acclaimed novel For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama J. Lockingto... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that &... Read more
The New York Times-bestselling collection of poems from the award-winning writer Ocean Vuong"Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington PostHo... Read more
NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden & Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Most Anticipated Book of Fall ... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted... Read more
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • AN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK • A dazzling novel about a young Black woman who walks the streets of Oakland and stumbles headlong into the failure of its ... Read more
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in space with her talent for creating glittering high-society in this stylish SF mystery, The Spare... Read more
From Ryan La Sala, the wildly popular author of Reverie, comes a twisted and tantalizing horror novel set amidst the bucolic splendor of a secluded summer retreat.Mars has always been the lesser tw... Read more
Sometimes to truly know a person, you have to read between the lines.Isabelle is completely lost. When she first began her career in publishing after college, she did not expect to be twenty-five, ... Read more
A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.Mamie Till-Mobley... Read more
