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2022
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On the Rooftop - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

Favorite Books of 2022 San Francisco Chronicle

South to America - Imani Perry

Best Books of 2022 The Stacks Podcast: Traci Thomas

Luda - Grant Morrison

Best Books of 2022 The Stacks Podcast: Andrew Limbong

The Employees - Olga Ravn

The 12 Best Books of 2022 Wired

Body Work - Melissa Febos

Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2022 Electric Lit

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

Favorite Novels of 2022 Electric Lit

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

Favorite Books of 2022 Barack Obama

Afterlives - Abdulrazak Gurnah

The Best Fiction and Poetry of 2022 New Yorker

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

The Best Nonfiction of 2022 New Yorker

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

The Best Books of 2022 Esquire

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

The Best Books of 2022 Atlantic

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

The Best Books of 2022 BuzzFeed

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

The Best Books of 2022 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa

Olga Dies Dreaming - Xóchitl González

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022 BBC Culture

We Don't Know Ourselves - Fintan O'Toole

Favorite Books of 2022 Salon

The Candy House - Jennifer Egan

39 Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Best Books of 2022 Passerby

Kaikeyi - Vaishnavi Patel

The Best Novels of 2022 Paste

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Ten Best Books of 2022 California Review of Books

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Best Books of 2022 Economist

The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man - Paul Newman

The Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 Esquire

Constructing a Nervous System - Margo Jefferson

The Best Books of 2022 Chron: J. Howard Rosier

If I Survive You - Jonathan Escoffery

16 Best Books of 2022 Vox: Constance Grady

Our Missing Hearts - Celeste Ng

Top 10 Books of 2022 People

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