The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of (2022) [Collection]

100 Notable Books of 2022: The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review .

* indicates Ten Best list

Fiction & Poetry

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Avalon by Nell Zink
The Bangalore Detectives Club by Harini Nagendra
Best Barbarian by Roger Reeves
Bliss Montage by Ling Ma
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
* The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Case Study by Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On by Dung Kai-cheung
* Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
Dead-End Memories by Banana Yoshimoto
* Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Either/Or by Elif Batuman
Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
* The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Gods of Want by K-Ming Chang
Hokuloa Road by Elizabeth Hand
Homesickness by Colin Barrett
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
The Immortal King Rao by Vauhini Vara
Joan Is Okay by Weike Wang
The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
My Government Means to Kill Me by Rasheed Newson
Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
Now Do You Know Where You Are by Dana Levin
The Old Woman With the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Red Blossom in Snow by Jeannie Lin
The Return of Faraz Ali by Aamina Ahmad
The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
* Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Whalebone Theatre by Joanna Quinn
Yonder by Jabari Asim
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

Nonfiction

Also a Poet by Ada Calhoun
American Midnight by Adam Hochschild
The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead
Black Folk Could Fly by Randall Kenan
Breathless by David Quammen
Come Back in September by Darryl Pinckney
Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
Democracy’s Data by Dan Bouk
Ducks by Kate Beaton
Easy Beauty by Chloé Cooper Jones
Everything I Need I Get From You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
Fire Season by Gary Indiana
G-Man by Beverly Gage
Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
The Grimkes by Kerri K. Greenidge
Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
* An Immense World by Ed Yong
In Love by Amy Bloom
Indelible City by Louisa Lim
Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
Indigenous Continent by Pekka Hämäläinen
Kiki Man Ray by Mark Braude
Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
Legacy of Violence by Caroline Elkins
Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
Magnificent Rebels by Andrea Wulf
Metaphysical Animals by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
Mr. B by Jennifer Homans
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
Path Lit by Lightning by David Maraniss
Picasso’s War by Hugh Eakin
The Quiet Before by Gal Beckerman
The Revolutionary by Stacy Schiff
Secret City by James Kirchick
Seek and Hide by Amy Gajda
Shy by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
Solito by Javier Zamora
Son of Elsewhere by Elamin Abdelmahmoud
The Song of the Cell by Siddhartha Mukherjee
* Stay True by Hua Hsu
* Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
Super-Infinite by Katherine Rundell
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
* Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
Walking the Bowl by Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama
* We Don’t Know Ourselves by Fintan O’Toole
When McKinsey Comes to Town by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

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