100 Notable Books of 2022
Chosen by the staff of
The New York Times Book Review
Nov. 22, 2022
Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Also a Poet
Ada Calhoun
American Midnight
Adam Hochschild
The Arc of a Covenant
Walter Russell Mead
Avalon
Nell Zink
The Bangalore Detectives Club
Harini Nagendra
Best Barbarian
Roger Reeves
Black Folk Could Fly
Randall Kenan
Bliss Montage
Ling Ma
The Books of Jacob
Olga Tokarczuk
Breathless
David Quammen
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On
Dung Kai-cheung
Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
Come Back in September
Darryl Pinckney
Companion Piece
Ali Smith
Constructing a Nervous System
Margo Jefferson
The Daughter of Doctor Moreau
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Dead Romantics
Ashley Poston
Dead-End Memories
Banana Yoshimoto
Democracy’s Data
Dan Bouk
Demon Copperhead
Barbara Kingsolver
Didn’t Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta
James Hannaham
Dr. No
Percival Everett
Ducks
Kate Beaton
Easy Beauty
Chloé Cooper Jones
Either/Or
Elif Batuman
Everything I Need I Get From You
Kaitlyn Tiffany
Fire Season
Gary Indiana
Flung Out of Space
Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer
Four Treasures of the Sky
Jenny Tinghui Zhang
The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
G-Man
Beverly Gage
Getting Lost
Annie Ernaux
Gods of Want
K-Ming Chang
The Grimkes
Kerri K. Greenidge
Half American
Matthew F. Delmont
Hokuloa Road
Elizabeth Hand
Homesickness
Colin Barrett
How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
Angie Cruz
The Hurting Kind
Ada Limón
If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
An Immense World
Ed Yong
The Immortal King Rao
Vauhini Vara
In Love
Amy Bloom
Indelible City
Louisa Lim
Index, A History of the
Dennis Duncan
Indigenous Continent
Pekka Hämäläinen
Joan Is Okay
Weike Wang
Kiki Man Ray
Mark Braude
Kingdom of Characters
Jing Tsu
The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
Legacy of Violence
Caroline Elkins
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
Liberation Day
George Saunders
Life Between the Tides
Adam Nicolson
Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout
Magnificent Rebels
Andrea Wulf
Metaphysical Animals
Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman
Motherthing
Ainslie Hogarth
Mr. B
Jennifer Homans
My Government Means to Kill Me
Rasheed Newson
Night of the Living Rez
Morgan Talty
Now Do You Know Where You Are
Dana Levin
The Old Woman With the Knife
Gu Byeong-mo
Olga Dies Dreaming
Xochitl Gonzalez
Our Missing Hearts
Celeste Ng
The Palace Papers
Tina Brown
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Path Lit by Lightning
David Maraniss
Picasso’s War
Hugh Eakin
Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
The Quiet Before
Gal Beckerman
The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
Red Blossom in Snow
Jeannie Lin
The Return of Faraz Ali
Aamina Ahmad
The Revolutionary
Stacy Schiff
The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
Sea of Tranquility
Emily St. John Mandel
Secret City
James Kirchick
Seek and Hide
Amy Gajda
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
Shy
Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green
Solito
Javier Zamora
Son of Elsewhere
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
The Song of the Cell
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Stay True
Hua Hsu
Strangers to Ourselves
Rachel Aviv
Super-Infinite
Katherine Rundell
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gabrielle Zevin
The Trayvon Generation
Elizabeth Alexander
Trust
Hernan Diaz
Under the Skin
Linda Villarosa
Walking the Bowl
Chris Lockhart and Daniel Mulilo Chama
We Don’t Know Ourselves
Fintan O’Toole
The Whalebone Theatre
Joanna Quinn
When McKinsey Comes to Town
Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe
Yonder
Jabari Asim
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Akwaeke Emezi