Our “best of the best” returns for 2022! We’ve reviewed the end-of-year best book lists and narrowed them down into one reference guide.
Overwhelmed by what to read from the past year? We’ve gathered the fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we recommended in 2022 that also appear on more than one of the favorite lists from:
BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Bookpage, New York Times, Horn Book, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Washington Post, NYPL, Shelf Awareness and Powell’s
Check out these “best of the best” books below!
Best of the Best 2022… FICTION
Dr. No by Percival Everett
Appears on the “best of” lists from New York Times, Kirkus, Washington Post
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
New York Times, Kirkus, Washington Post
Four Treasures of the Sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Library Journal, Kirkus
Shutter by Ramona Emerson
Library Journal, NYPL
Lavender House by Lev AC Rosen
Library Journal, Bookpage
The Woman in the Library by Sularil Gentill
Library Journal, Bookpage
Less is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Powells, Washington Post
Best of the Best 2022… NONFICTION
The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O’Rourke
Appears on the “best of” lists from BookRiot, Publisher’s Weekly, Bookpage, Washington Post
The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
New York Times, Library Journal, Kirkus
Also A Poet by Ada Calhoun
New York Times, Kirkus, Bookpage, Washington Post
Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
Library Journal, Powell’s, Bookpage, Shelf Awareness
Best of the Best 2022… YOUNG ADULT
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys
Appears on the “best of” list from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, NYPL, School Library
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir
Kirkus, Bookpage, NYPL, School Library, Shelf Awareness
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander
Publishers Weekly, Powell’s, NYPL, Shelf Awareness
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat
Publishers Weekly, Bookpage, NYPL
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill
Publishers Weekly, NYPL, Shelf Awareness
Curious about the most popular books on the Reading Group Choices site in 2022? We’ve got the top two books from each month listed here!