Year-End Lists
A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.
Movies
TV Shows
Music
Books
Poetry
Podcasts
Highlights
Sight & Sound Poll: The 50 Best Films of 2024
Mark Kermode: Best Films of 2024
Guardian: The 50 Best TV Shows of 2024
more...
2022 Books
Vanity Fair: 39 Best Books of 2022
16 December 2022
Vanity Fair
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39 Best Books of 2022
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2023
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2020
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The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man
A Memoir
Paul Newman
The Man Who Could Move Clouds
Ingrid Rojas Contreras
Aesthetica
Allie Rowbottom
Less Is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer
Stay True
A Memoir
Hua Hsu
Heartbreak
A Personal and Scientific Journey
Florence Williams
Incredible Doom
Volume 2
Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
The Nineties
Chuck Klosterman
How Far the Light Reaches
A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
Sabrina Imbler
Lincoln and the Fight for Peace
John P. Avlon
Mr. B
George Balanchine's 20th Century
Jennifer Homans
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi
In the Mouth of the Wolf
A Murder, a Cover-Up, and the True Cost of Silencing the Press
Katherine Corcoran
The Old Place
Bobby Finger
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Constructing a Nervous System
A Memoir
Margo Jefferson
Honey & Spice
Bolu Babalola
I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
Corporate Rock Sucks
The Rise and Fall of SST Records
Jim Ruland
Young Mungo
Douglas Stuart
Everything I Need I Get from You
How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Who by Fire
Leonard Cohen in the Sinai
Matti Friedman
Picasso's War
How Modern Art Came to America
Hugh Eakin
Secret City
The Hidden History of Gay Washington
James Kirchick
Portrait of an Unknown Woman
Daniel Silva
Temples of Books
Magnificent Libraries Around the World
Marianne Julia Strauss
All This Could Be Different
Sarah Thankam Mathews
Just Passing Through: A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel
Milton Gendel
The Ruin of All Witches
Life and Death in the New World
Malcolm Gaskill
Agent Josephine
American Beauty, French Hero, British Spy
Damien Lewis
Last Call at the Hotel Imperial
The Reporters Who Took on a World at War
Deborah Cohen
Dele Weds Destiny
Tomi Obaro
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head
Warsan Shire
Time Is a Mother
Ocean Vuong
I'll Show Myself Out
Essays On Midlife And Motherhood
Jessi Klein
The Song of the Cell
An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Lungfish
Meghan Gilliss
The Method
How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act
Isaac Butler