Year-End Lists

Oprah Daily: Our Favorite Books of 2022, seemingly in alphabetical order with fiction first but numbered as follows

[see also 2025 • 2024 • 2023 • 2021]

1. Afterlives
   Abdulrazak Gurnah
2. All the Lovers in the Night
   Mieko Kawakami
3. Black Cake
   Charmaine Wilkerson
4. Demon Copperhead
   Barbara Kingsolver
5. Dinosaurs
   Lydia Millet
6. French Braid
   Anne Tyler
7. Homesickness
   Colin Barrett
8. Honey & Spice
   Bolu Babalola
9. If I Survive You
   Jonathan Escoffery
10. Killers of a Certain Age
    Deanna Raybourn
11. Lessons in Chemistry
    Bonnie Garmus
12. Lucy by the Sea
    Elizabeth Strout
13. Liberation Day
    George Saunders
14. Mr. B

    George Balanchine's 20th Century
    Jennifer Homans
15. Night of the Living Rez
    Morgan Talty
16. Nightcrawling
    Leila Mottley
17. Nobody Gets Out Alive

    Stories
    Leigh Newman
18. Our Missing Hearts
    Celeste Ng
19. People Person
    Candice Carty-Williams
20. Sacrificio
    Ernesto Mestre-Reed
21. Sea of Tranquility
    Emily St. John Mandel
22. Seven Empty Houses
    Samanta Schweblin
23. Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm
    Laura Warrell
24. Thank You, Mr. Nixon
    Gish Jen
25. The Birdcatcher
    Gayl Jones
26. The Candy House
    Jennifer Egan
27. The Furrows
    Namwali Serpell
28. The Hero of This Book
    Elizabeth McCracken
29. The Rabbit Hutch
    Tess Gunty
30. The Passenger
    Cormac McCarthy
31. The School for Good Mothers
    Jessamine Chan
32. To Paradise
    Hanya Yanagihara
33. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
    Gabrielle Zevin
34. Trust
    Hernan Diaz
35. Winter Work
    Dan Fesperman
36. By Hands Now Known

    Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
    Margaret A. Burnham
37. Constructing a Nervous System

    A Memoir
    Margo Jefferson
38. Finding Me
    Viola Davis
39. An Immense World

    How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
    Ed Yong
40. Lady Justice

    Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America
    Dahlia Lithwick
41. Lost & Found

    A Memoir
    Kathryn Schulz
42. South to America

    A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
    Imani Perry
43. The Grimkes

    The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family
    Kerri K. Greenidge
44. The Revolutionary

    Samuel Adams
    Stacy Schiff
45. The Song of the Cell

    An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
    Siddhartha Mukherjee