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Best Reads of 2022

Our Librarians have scoured the stacks to curate a list that will help you find your next great read. Drumroll please!

Download a printable version here.

General Fiction

  • All Good People Here | Ashley Flowers | FICTION Flowers
  • The Angel of Rome: and Other Stories | Jess Walter | FICTION Walter
  • Anywhere You Run | Wanda Morris | FICTION Morris
  • Black Cake | Charmaine Wilkerson | FICTION Wilkerson
  • Atomic Anna | Rachel Barenbaum | FICTION Barenbaum
  • Brother Alive | Zain Khalid | FICTION Khalid
  • Demon Copperhead | Barbara Kingsolver | FICTION Kingsolver
  • Eleutheria | Allegra Hyde | FICTION Hyde
  • French Braid | Anne Tyler | FICTION Tyler
  • How It Went: Thirteen Late Stories of the Port William Membership | Wendell Berry | FICTION Berry
  • Lessons | Ian McEwan | FICTION McEwan
  • Lessons in Chemistry | Bonnie Garmus | FICTION Garmus
  • The Latecomer | Jean Hanff Korelitz | FICTION Korelitz
  • The Lioness | Chris Bohjalian| FICTION Bohjalian
  • Love in Defiance of Pain | Aly Kinsella et al | FICTION Kinsella
  • The Marriage Portrait | Maggie O’Farrell | FICTION O’Farrell
  • Memphis | Tara M. Stringfellow | FICTION Stringfellow
  • The Passenger | By Cormac McCarthy | FICTION McCarthy
  • Properties of Thirst | Marianne Wiggins | FICTION Wiggins
  • Shutter | Ramona Emerson | FICTION Emerson
  • Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm | Laura Warrell | FICTION Warrell
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow | by Gabrielle Zevin | FICTION Gabrielle
  • The Town of Babylon | by Alejandro Varela | FICTION Varela
  • True Biz | Sara Novic | FICTION Novic
  • Trust | Herman Diaz | FICTION Diaz
  • The Winners | Frederick Backman | FICTION Backman
  • White Horse | Erika T. Wurth | FICTION Wurth
  • Violeta | Isabelle Allende | FICTION Allende

Mystery & Crime

  • Alias Emma | Ava Glass | FICTION Glass
  • Lavender House | Lev A. C. Rosen | MYSTERY Rosen
  • Killers of A Certain Age | Deanna Rayborn | MYSTERY Rayborn
  • The Maid | Nita Prose | MYSTERY Prose
  • Moon Bones: A Nellie Burns and Moonshine Mystery | Julie Weston | MYSTERY Weston

Science Fiction/Fantasy

  • All the Seas of the World | Guy Gavriel Kay | SCIFIC KAY
  • Fevered Star | Rebecca Roanhorse | SCIFIC ROA
  • The Kaiju Preservation Society | John Scalzi | SCIFIC SCA
  • A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Becky Chambers | SCIFIC CHA
  • The Singing Hills Cycle | Nghi Vo | SCIFIC VO
  • The Spare Man | Mary Robinette Kowal | SCIFIC KOW
  • Where it Rains in Color | Denise Crittendon | SCIFIC CRI
  • The World We Make | N. K. Jemisin | SCIFIC JEM

Nonfiction

  • An Immense World | Ed Yong | 591.5 YON
  • Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus | David Quammen | 614.592 QUA
  • Freezing Order | Bill Browder | 332.6 BRO
  • Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America | Juan Gonzalez | 973.046 GON
  • In Sensorium: Notes for My People | Tanwi Nandini Islam | 973.049 TAN
  • Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap | David Roberts | 919.82 ROB
  • Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern | Jing Tsu | 495.11 TSU
  • The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy | Moiya McTeir | 523.113 MCT
  • The Mind of a Bee | Lars Chittka | 595.799
  • Morgenthau: Power, Privilege, and the Rise of an American Dynasty | Andrew Meier | 973.049 MEI
  • Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas | Jennifer Raff | 576.58 RAF
  • Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World | Irene Vallejo Moreu | 002.09 VAL
  • Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America | Hugh Eakin | 709.2 EAK
  • Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution | Eric Jay Dolin | 973.35 DOL
  • The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America | John Wood Sweet | 345.73 SWE
  • Silent Spring Revolution | Douglas Brinkley | 363.73 BRI
  • Solito | Javiet Zamora | 92 ZAM
  • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon | Perry Imani |917.504 IMA
  • Tanqueray | Stephanie Johnson | 792.78 JOH
  • These Precious Days | Ann Patchett | 814.54 PAT
  • The Trayvon Generation | Elizabeth Alexander | 305.89 ALE
  • Uncommon Measure: A Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of Time | Natalie Hodges | 781.43 HOD
  • Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animas and People in America | Dan L. Flores | 591.97 FLO
  • Year of the Tiger | Alice Wong | 92 WON

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