Year-End Lists

BookPage: Best Nonfiction of 2022

• Also a Poet

  Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me
  Ada Calhoun
• Free

  A Child and a Country at the End of History
  Lea Ypi
• Half American

  The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad
  Matthew F. Delmont
• How to Read Now

  Essays
  Elaine Castillo
• An Immense World

  How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
  Ed Yong
• In Love

  A Memoir of Love and Loss
  Amy Bloom
• In the Shadow of the Mountain

  A Memoir of Courage
  Silvia Vasquez-Lavado
• Inciting Joy

  Essays
  Ross Gay
• The Invisible Kingdom

  Reimagining Chronic Illness
  Meghan O’Rourke
• Last Call at the Hotel Imperial

  The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
  Deborah Cohen
• The Man Who Could Move Clouds
  Ingrid Rojas Contreras
• Raising Lazarus

  Hope, Justice, and the Future of America's Overdose Crisis
  Beth Macy
• Red Paint

  The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk
  Sasha taqwšəblu LaPointe
• The Revolutionary

  Samuel Adams
  Stacy Schiff
• River of the Gods

  Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile
  Candice Millard
• The Song of the Cell

  An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
  Siddhartha Mukherjee
• South to America

  A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
  Imani Perry
• Stay True

  A Memoir
  Hua Hsu
• Strangers to Ourselves

  Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
  Rachel Aviv
• Tell Me Everything

  The Story of a Private Investigation
  Erika Krouse
• This Is Not a Book about Benedict Cumberbatch

  The Joy of Loving Something--Anything--Like Your Life Depends on It
  Tabitha Carvan
• Under the Skin

  The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation
  Linda Villarosa
• Virology

  Essays for the Living, the Dead, and the Small Things in Between
  Joseph Osmundson