Year-End Lists

BBC Culture: The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022, compiled by Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker

[see also 2024]

• Liberation Day
  George Saunders
• The Kingdom of Sand
  Andrew Holleran
• Bournville
  Jonathan Coe
• Demon Copperhead
  Barbara Kingsolver
• Trespasses
  Louise Kennedy
• The Whalebone Theatre
  Joanna Quinn
• The Book of Goose
  Yiyun Li
• I’m Sorry You Feel That Way
  Rebecca Wait
• The Passenger
  Cormac McCarthy
• Darling
  India Knight
• There Are More Things
  Yara Rodrigues Fowler
• Getting Lost
  Annie Ernaux
• Fairy Tale
  Stephen King
• Nightcrawling
  Leila Mottley
• After Sappho
  Selby Wynn Schwartz
• Our Missing Hearts
  Celeste Ng
• The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  Shehan Karunatilaka
• The Colony
  Audrey Magee
• The Last White Man
  Mohsin Hamid
• Trust
  Hernan Diaz
• Best of Friends
  Kamila Shamsie
• Booth
  Karen Joy Fowler
• Shrines of Gaiety
  Kate Atkinson
• Cult Classic
  Sloane Crosley
• Young Mungo
  Douglas Stuart
• The Candy House
  Jennifer Egan
• Either/Or
  Elif Batuman
• Constructing a Nervous System

  A Memoir
  Margo Jefferson
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• Love Marriage
  Monica Ali
• Tiepolo Blue
  James Cahill
• Fire Island

  A Century in the Life of an American Paradise
  Jack Parlett
• Pure Colour
  Sheila Heti
• Sea of Tranquility
  Emily St. John Mandel
• Memphis
  Tara M. Stringfellow
• Time Is a Mother
  Ocean Vuong
• How High We Go in the Dark
  Sequoia Nagamatsu
• Burning Questions

  Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
  Margaret Atwood
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
  Warsan Shire
• In the Margins

  On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing
  Elena Ferrante
• Moon Witch, Spider King
  Marlon James
• Olga Dies Dreaming
  Xóchitl González
• Glory
  NoViolet Bulawayo
• French Braid
  Anne Tyler
• To Paradise
  Hanya Yanagihara
• The School for Good Mothers
  Jessamine Chan
• The Exhibitionist
  Charlotte Mendelson
• Free Love
  Tessa Hadley
• Black Cake
  Charmaine Wilkerson
• Auē
  Becky Manawatu