Year-End Lists

A hand-curated, browsable index
of notable year-end lists.

« 2022
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The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

San Francisco Chronicle Favorite Books of 2022

South to America - Imani Perry

Traci Thomas: The Stacks Podcast Best Books of 2022

Elite Capture - Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Andrew Limbong: The Stacks Podcast Best Books of 2022

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

Wired The 12 Best Books of 2022

Body Work - Melissa Febos

Electric Lit Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022

Little Rabbit - Alyssa Songsiridej

Electric Lit Favorite Novels of 2022

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2022

The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty

New Yorker The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

New Yorker The Best Nonfiction of 2022

Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta - James Hannaham

Esquire The Best Books of 2022

My Phantoms - Gwendoline Riley

Atlantic The Best Books of 2022

All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankam Mathews

BuzzFeed The Best Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Patrick Rapa: The Philadelphia Inquirer The Best Books of 2022

The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

BBC The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022

The Method - Isaac Butler

Salon Favorite Books of 2022

The Song of the Cell - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Vanity Fair 39 Best Books of 2022

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Passerby Best Books of 2022

Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel

Paste The Best Novels of 2022

In Love - Amy Bloom

California Review of Books Ten Best Books of 2022

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Economist Best Books of 2022

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

Esquire The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

J. Howard Rosier: Chron The Best Books of 2022

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Constance Grady: Vox 16 Best Books of 2022

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

People Top 10 Books of 2022