Year archive
Books selected by independent literary juries and editorial teams in 2022, gathered into one transparent, source-linked reading list. The chronology uses the award year for prizes and list year for editorial recommendations.
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(Serious) New Cook: Recipes, Tips, and Techniques by Leah Su Quiroga and Cammie Kim Lin appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
1-2-3 Scream! by R.U. Ginns, illustrated by Javier Espila appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, funny stuff, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Teixcalaanli fleet faces an alien force whose language and intentions it cannot understand, making annihilation increasingly likely. Mahit Dzmare and Three Seagrass attempt communication while imperial politics and a child heir shape decisions far from the front.
A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times: Stories by Meron Hadero appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, eye-opening reads, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood by Benjamina Ebuehi appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, cookbooks & food, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A House Between Earth and the Moon: A Novel by Rebecca Scherm appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around love & romance, historical fiction, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Map for the Missing: A Novel by Belinda Huijuan Tang appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around historical fiction, book club ideas, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Merry Little Meet Cute by Julie Murphy and Sierra Simone appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around funny stuff, let’s talk about sex, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, fiction, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Tiny Upward Shove: A Novel by Melissa Chadburn appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around seriously great writing, eye-opening reads, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Warbler's Journey by Scott Weidensaul, illustrated by Nancy Lane appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, tales from around the world, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
A Woman's Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis, translated by Tash Aw appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around family matters, identity & culture, rather short, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation by Ruth Wilson Gilmore appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, the states we’re in, rather long, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Acceptance: A Memoir by Emi Nietfeld appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism by Glory M. Liu appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, it’s all geek to me, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Aesthetica: A Novel by Allie Rowbottom appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, fiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Africa Risen: A New Era of Speculative Fiction by edited by Sheree Renée Thomas, Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Zelda Knight appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, short stories, essays & poetry, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
African Town by Irene Latham and Charles Waters appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around for history lovers, short stories, essays & poetry, young adult, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Age of Cage: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career by Keith Phipps appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, no biz like show biz, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Alive at the End of the World: Poems by Saeed Jones appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around identity & culture, short stories, essays & poetry, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Two Pakistani American teenagers face grief, abuse, addiction, family burdens, and a threatened motel in California.
All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All This Could Be Different: A Novel by Sarah Thankam Mathews appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, funny stuff, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End: The Cartoons of Charles Johnson by Charles Johnson appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around comics & graphic novels, eye-opening reads, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
America Made Me a Black Man: A Memoir by Boyah J. Farah appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, nonfiction, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
American Murderer: The Parasite That Haunted the South by Gail Jarrow appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, nonfiction, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An American Martyr in Persia: The Epic Life and Tragic Death of Howard Baskerville by Reza Aslan appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, for history lovers, staff picks, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X.R. Pan appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, identity & culture, love & romance, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
An Immense World by Ed Yong was selected for The New York Times Book Review’s 2022 Ten Best Books list in nonfiction. The catalog records the selection as bibliographic fact and links readers to the newspaper’s original annual list.
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Anon Pls.: A Novel by DeuxMoi appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around staff picks, no biz like show biz, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Anywhere You Run: A Novel by Wanda M. Morris appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around the states we’re in, identity & culture, mysteries & thrillers, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Are You Sara? A Novel by S.C. Lalli appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around mysteries & thrillers, book club ideas, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Art of the Chicken: A Master Chef's Paintings, Stories, and Recipes of the Humble Bird by Jacques Pépin appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around cookbooks & food, for art lovers, biography & memoir, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around young adult, tales from around the world, eye-opening reads, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Attack of the Black Rectangles by Amy Sarig King appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, eye-opening reads, kids’ books, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Robin Swift is taken from Canton to Britain and trained at Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation, where enchanted silver powers the empire. As he learns how linguistic knowledge sustains colonial extraction, he must choose between institutional privilege and resistance.
Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R.F. Kuang appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, rather long, seriously great writing, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Bad Sex: Truth, Pleasure, and an Unfinished Revolution by Nona Willis Aronowitz appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around nonfiction, biography & memoir, book club ideas, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Ballad & Dagger (An Outlaw Saints Novel) by Daniel José Older appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around sci fi, fantasy & speculative fiction, young adult, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Balladz by Sharon Olds appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around short stories, essays & poetry, identity & culture, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Before All the World: A Novel by Moriel Rothman-Zecher appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, historical fiction, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Before I Let Go by Kennedy Ryan appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, family matters, let’s talk about sex, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Berry Song by Michaela Goade appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around kids’ books, family matters, identity & culture, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Best of Friends by Kamila Shamsie appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around fiction, identity & culture, tales from around the world, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin appears in NPR’s 2022 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around let’s talk about sex, book club ideas, family matters, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
