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The Notable and Award-Winning Books of 2022

Including winners of the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and more, these books have been read, judged, and celebrated by the best this year! Pick up an award-winning story for any age.

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    Afterlives

    by Abdulrazak Gurnah

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The New Yorker, BookPage, and Kirkus Reviews 

    From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.
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    The Arc of a Covenant

    by Walter Russell Mead

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times

    A groundbreaking work that overturns the conventional understanding of the Israeli-American relationship and, in doing so, explores how fundamental debates about American identity drive our country’s foreign policy.
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    Avalon

    by Nell Zink

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Vulture 

    A profound and singular story about a young woman searching for her place in the world, from one of America’s most original voices–the irresistible story of one teenager’s reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
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    The Books of Jacob

    by Olga Tokarczuk

    National Book Award Longlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The New Yorker, and NPR

    The Nobel Prize-winner’s richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise and fall of a mysterious, messianic religious leader as he blazes his way across eighteenth-century Europe.
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    Checkout 19

    by Claire-Louise Bennett

    New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and Vogue

    In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sparks of her imagination. The thrill of learning to conjure characters and scenarios in her head is matched by the exhilaration of forging her own way in the world, the two kinds of ingenuity kindling to a brilliant conflagration. Checkout 19 is a radical affirmation of the power of the imagination and the magic escape those who master it open to us all.
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    Companion Piece

    by Ali Smith

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Kirkus, and NPR

    Award-winning author Ali Smith again lights a way for us through the nightmarish now with a provocative novel grounded both in the contemporary era and in the uncannily familiar era of the Black Plague. Companion Piece stands apart from her astonishing Seasonal Quartet, which remains discrete unto itself. But like Smith’s groundbreaking series, this new novel boldly captures the spirit of the times.
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    Constructing a Nervous System

    by Margo Jefferson

    Andrew Carnegie Medal Shortlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, TIME, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, Vulture, and Publishers Weekly

    From “one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism (Cathy Park Hong, New York Times bestselling author of Minor Feelings) comes a memoir “as electric as the title suggests” (Maggie Nelson, author of On Freedom). The result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching.
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    The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

    by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, TIME, and NPR

    From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico.
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    The Dead Romantics

    by Ashley Poston

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times

    A disillusioned millennial ghostwriter who, quite literally, has some ghosts of her own, has to find her way back home in this sparkling adult debut from national bestselling author Ashley Poston.
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    Either/Or

    by Elif Batuman

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The New Yorker

    From the acclaimed and bestselling author of The Idiot, the continuation of beloved protagonist Selin’s quest for self-knowledge, as she travels abroad and tests the limits of her newfound adulthood. Hilarious, revelatory, and unforgettable, its gripping narrative will confront you with searching questions that persist long after the last page.
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    The Furrows

    by Namwali Serpell

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and Publishers Weekly | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, TIME, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Vulture, BookPage, and Kirkus

    From one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and “enthralling” (Oprah Daily) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss. The Furrows is a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishful — and sometimes willful — longing for reunion with those we’ve lost.
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    G-Man

    by Beverly Gage

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, and Smithsonian Magazine | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    A major new biography of J Edgar Hoover that draws from never-before-seen sources to create a groundbreaking portrait of a colossus who dominated half a century of American history and planted the seeds for much of today’s conservative political landscape.
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    Gods of Want

    by K-Ming Chang

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and NPR

    Startling stories center the bodies, memories, myths, and relationships of Asian American women in “a voracious, probing collection, proof of how exhilarating the short story can be” (The New York Times Book Review) — from the National Book Award “5 Under 35” honoree and author of Bestiary.
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    Half American

    by Matthew F. Delmont

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    The definitive history of World War II from the African American perspective, written by civil rights expert and Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont. In a time when the questions World War II raised regarding race and democracy in America remain troublingly relevant and still unanswered, this meticulously researched retelling makes for urgently necessary reading.
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    An Immense World

    by Ed Yong

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Slate, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage | Named a Best Book of the Year by Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, and Kirkus 

    A “thrilling” (The New York Times), “dazzling” (The Wall Street Journal) tour of the radically different ways that animals perceive the world that will fill you with wonder and forever alter your perspective, by Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong.
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    In Love

    by Amy Bloom

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, TIME, NPR, The Washington Post, and Kirkus 

    A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss — that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post).
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    Indelible City

    by Louisa Lim

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased.
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    Joan Is Okay

    by Weike Wang

    Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and NPR 

    A witty, moving, piercingly insightful new novel about a marvelously complicated woman who can’t be anyone but herself, from the award-winning author of Chemistry.
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    Kingdom of Characters

    by Jing Tsu

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times

    Just a century ago, China was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the elite few, as the world underwent a massive technological transformation that threatened to leave them behind. In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China’s most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology.
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    Legacy of Violence

    by Caroline Elkins

    Baillie Gifford Prize Longlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian: a searing study of the British Empire that probes the country’s pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century and traces how these practices were exported, modified, and institutionalized in colonies around the globe.
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    Lessons in Chemistry

    by Bonnie Garmus

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, and GoodReads 

    Meet Elizabeth Zott: a “formidable, unapologetic and inspiring” (PARADE) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel. It reminds you that change takes time and always requires heat” (The New York Times Book Review).
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    Liberation Day

    by George Saunders

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, TIME, and Kirkus

    “One of our most inventive purveyors of the form returns with pitch-perfect, genre-bending stories that stare into the abyss of our national character … An exquisite work from a writer whose reach is galactic.”—Oprah Daily
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    Lucy by the Sea

    by Elizabeth Strout

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, NPR, TIME, The Washington Post, and PopSugar

    From Pulitzer Prize–winning author Elizabeth Strout comes a poignant, pitch-perfect novel about a divorced couple stuck together during lockdown — and the love, loss, despair, and hope that animate us even as the world seems to be falling apart.
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    Magnificent Rebels

    by Andrea Wulf

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Telegraph, Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman, The Spectator, and Financial Times

    From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels—poets, novelists, philosophers — who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of the greatest thinkers of the time.
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    Metaphysical Animals

    by Clare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The New Yorker 

    A vibrant portrait of four college friends — Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley — who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford’s men were away fighting World War II.
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    Motherthing

    by Ainslie Hogarth

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times

    A darkly funny take on mothers and daughters, about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.
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    by Jennifer Homans

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The New Yorker, NPR, and Oprah Daily

    Based on a decade of unprecedented research, the first major biography of George Balanchine, a broad-canvas portrait set against the backdrop of the tumultuous century that shaped the man The New York Times called “the Shakespeare of dancing” — from the bestselling author of Apollo’s Angels.
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    Our Missing Hearts

    by Celeste Ng

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Los Angeles Times, and Oprah Daily

    From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear. It’s a story about the power — and limitations — of art to create change, the lessons and legacies we pass on to our children, and how any of us can survive a broken world with our hearts intact.
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    by Tina Brown

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post 

    The “addictively readable” (The Washington Post) inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years — only to confront new, twenty-first-century crises.
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    by Cormac McCarthy

    Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, GoodReads, and Kirkus

    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
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    by Hugh Eakin

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The New Yorker 

    A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world — and Picasso the most famous artist alive — in the shadow of World War II.
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    by Gal Beckerman

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times

    An “elegantly argued and exuberantly narrated” (The New York Times Book Review) look at the building of social movements — from the 1600s to the present — and how current technology is undermining them.
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    The Rabbit Hutch

    by Tess Gunty

    National Book Award Winner | Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by BookPage | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, TIME, and Kirkus 

    The standout literary debut that everyone is talking about. Set over one sweltering week in July and culminating in a bizarre act of violence that finally changes everything, The Rabbit Hutch is a savagely beautiful and bitingly funny snapshot of contemporary America, a gorgeous and provocative tale of loneliness and longing, entrapment and, ultimately, freedom.
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    The Return of Faraz Ali

    by Aamina Ahmad

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and NPR

    Sent back to his birthplace — Lahore’s notorious red-light district — to hush up the murder of a girl, a man finds himself in an unexpected reckoning with his past. Profoundly intimate and propulsive, The Return of Faraz Ali is a spellbindingly assured first novel that poses a timeless question: Whom do we choose to protect, and at what price?
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    by Emily St. John Mandel

    Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, GoodReads, and Kirkus 

    The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel returns with a novel of art, time travel, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon five hundred years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space.
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    by Amy Gajda

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    An urgent book for today’s privacy wars, and essential reading on how the courts have. for centuries, often protected privileged men’s rights at the cost of everyone else’s.
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    by Javier Zamora

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Public Library | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, NPR, The Washington Post, and Kirkus 

    A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family. A memoir as gripping as it is moving, Solito provides an immediate and intimate account not only of a treacherous and near-impossible journey, but also of the miraculous kindness and love delivered at the most unexpected moments.
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    Son of Elsewhere

    by Elamin Abdelmahmoud

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    A “funny and frank” (The New York Times) collection of essays on Blackness, faith, pop culture, and the challenges — and rewards — of finding one’s way in the world, from a BuzzFeed editor and podcast host.
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    Stay True

    by Hua Hsu

    Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist | Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, TIME, Vogue, NPR, Pitchfork, The Millions, Lit Hub, BookPage, Kirkus, and Publishers Weekly

    From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art.
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    by Gabrielle Zevin

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, BookPage, Kirkus, and GoodReads

    In this exhilarating novel by the bestselling author of The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry two friends — often in love, but never lovers — come together as creative partners in the world of video game design, where success brings them fame, joy, tragedy, duplicity, and, ultimately, a kind of immortality.
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    Trust

    by Hernan Diaz

    Booker Prize Longlist | Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post | Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, Vogue, TIME, NPR, Oprah Daily, Esquire, and BookPage

    At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
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    Under the Skin

    by Linda Villarosa

    Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by The New York Times | Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, TIME, Publishers Weekly, and BookPage 

    From an award-winning writer at the New York Times Magazine and a contributor to the 1619 Project comes a landmark book that tells the full story of racial health disparities in America, revealing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of our nation.
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    The Whalebone Theatre

    by Joanna Quinn

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times 

    A transporting, irresistible debut novel that takes its heroine, Cristabel Seagrave, from a theatre made of whalebones to covert operations during World War II — a story of love, family, bravery, lost innocence, and self-transformation.
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    When McKinsey Comes to Town

    by Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

    Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Washington Post 

    An explosive, deeply reported exposé of McKinsey & Company, the international consulting firm that advises corporations and governments, that highlights the often drastic impact of its work on employees and citizens around the world.
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