Year-End Lists

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Our Migrant Souls - Héctor Tobar

Nonfiction 2023 Kirkus Prize

Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver

Best Fiction of 2023 Women's Prize

Marzahn, mon amour - Katja Oskamp

2023 Dublin Literary Award

The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

Fiction 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award

Properties of Thirst - Marianne Wiggins

Favorite Books of 2022 San Francisco Chronicle

South to America - Imani Perry

Best Books of 2022 The Stacks Podcast: Traci Thomas

Lapvona - Ottessa Moshfegh

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 Revolutionary - Stacy Schiff

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

Stay True - Hua Hsu

The Best Books of 2022 Atlantic

The Book of Goose - Yiyun Li

The Best Books of 2022 BuzzFeed

Either/Or - Elif Batuman

The Best Books of 2022 The Philadelphia Inquirer: Patrick Rapa

The School for Good Mothers - Jessamine Chan

The 50 Best Books of the Year 2022 BBC Culture

I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy

Favorite Books of 2022 Salon

All This Could Be Different - Sarah Thankam Mathews

39 Best Books of 2022 Vanity Fair

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

Best Books of 2022 Passerby

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin

The Best Novels of 2022 Paste

In Love - Amy Bloom

Ten Best Books of 2022 California Review of Books

There Are No Accidents - Jessie Singer

Best Books of 2022 Economist

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