Year-End Lists

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

Books
The Rabbit Hutch - Tess Gunty

National Book Award Fiction 2022

South to America - Imani Perry

National Book Award Nonfiction 2022

An Immense World - Ed Yong

Publishers Weekly 10 Best Books of 2022

Strangers to Ourselves - Rachel Aviv

BookPage Best Nonfiction of 2022

All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankam Mathews

BookPage Best Fiction of 2022

Diego Garcia - Natasha Soobramanien and Luke Williams

Goldsmiths Prize Best Fiction of 2022

In Sensorium - Tanaïs

Kirkus Prize Nonfiction 2022

Trust - Hernan Diaz

Kirkus Prize Fiction 2022

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida - Shehan Karunatilaka

The Booker Prize 2022 Award

The Book of Form and Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki

Women's Prize Fiction 2022

The Art of Losing - Alice Zetiner

Dublin Literary Award 2022

No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood

Dylan Thomas Prize 2022

The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine

PEN/Faulkner Award Fiction 2022

Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner

Electric Lit Favorite Nonfiction Books of 2021

Intimacies - Katie Kitamura

Electric Lit Favorite Novels of 2021

All That She Carried - Tiya Miles

Atlantic The 20 Best Books of 2021

She Who Became the Sun - Shelley Parker-Chan

Parade Magazine 40 Best Books of 2021

Happy Hour - Marlowe Granados

Passerby Best Books of 2021

Orwell's Roses - Rebecca Solnit

New Statesman Best Books of 2021

The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois - Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

Los Angeles Times: Bethanne Patrick The 5 Best Novels of 2021

The Agitators - Dorothy Wickenden

Los Angeles Times: Mary Ann Gwinn The 5 Best Nonfiction Books of 2021

Afterparties - Anthony Veasna So

Los Angeles Times: Mark Athitakis The 5 Best Fiction Books of 2021

Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr

Barack Obama Favorite Books of 2021

Lurkers - Sandi Tan

Thrillist The Best Books of 2021