Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year2022

Given by Kirkus Reviews

190 Works 80,042 Books 3,313 Reviews ½ 4.0
Categories:
All, American History (20), Arts & Culture Books (15), Arts & Entertainment (13), Best Books for Informed Americans Selection (1), Best Mysteries and Thrillers (23), Big-Picture History Books (12), Biographies (111), Black Life in America (21), Book Club Fiction (33), Book Club Nonfiction (7), Books About Artists of All Kinds (5), Books About Being Black in America (15), Books About Black Life in America (18), Books About Love and Loss (5), Books To Stir Heated Debate (7), Books for Foodies (12), Books for Progressives (4), Books of Note by Literary Lions (10), Books to Fight Misogyny and Sexism (6), Books to Fight Racism and Xenophobia (6), Children's Book (6), Collections (7), Comic Novels (5), Crime and (In)Justice (8), Culture Books (8), Current Affairs (36), Current Affairs & Social Sciences (21), Debut (24), Debut Fiction (107), Difficult but Necessary Reads (7), Environmental (7), Environmental Fiction (5), Essay (7), Essays & Entertainment (9), Feel-Good Reads (7), Fiction (14), Fiction About Love and Family (5), Fiction About Love and Sex (5), Fiction Debut (1), Fiction Get Your Book Club Talking (1), Fiction Writers to Discover (17), Fiction for Armchair Travel (4), Fiction for Quarantine Reading (7), Fiction in Translation (48), Fiction to Get Your Book Club Talking (58), Fiction: The Top 25 (66), Fictional Families (27), Fictional Voices (17), General Fiction (34), Health and Popular Science (8), Heartrending Nonfiction (1), Historical Excavation (9), Historical Fiction (98), Historical Fiction, 2019, Historical Fiction, 2019 (1), Historical Novels (5), History (75), History Books (11), Indie (1), Indie Memoirs (7), Indie Mysteries and Thrillers (1), Kirkus & Rolling Stone's Best Music Books (21), Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year (1), Literary Fiction (37), Memoirs (118), Memorable Characters (5), Memorable Fictional Families (10), Middle Grade (1), Multicultural (8), Mysteries (12), Mysteries & Thrillers (105), Mysteries and Thrillers (18), Mystery (31), Nature & Environment (18), Nature and Travel (12), Nature, Travel, and Sports Books (8), Nonfiction (342), Nonfiction - Shocking Tales of Injustice (6), Nonfiction Books to Navigate American Politics (6), Nonfiction Collections (7), Nonfiction for Lovers of the Literary Arts (7), Nonfiction with Truly Inspirational Characters (3), Nonfiction: The Top 25 (25), Novels To Get Your Book Club Talking (9), Page-Turners (10), Politics (14), Pop Culture and Entertainment (7), Popular Fiction (15), Popular Science Books (9), Reported (8), Romance (54), Science Books (7), Science Fiction and Fantasy (135), Science and Medicine (10), Science and Nature (29), Science and Technology (18), Short Fiction (62), Short Story Collections (15), Social & Cultural Studies Books (11), Socioeconomic Books (4), Sports and Entertainment (7), Story Collections (22), Teen (2), Thrillers (27), Tracking Autocracy and White Supremacy (4), Translation (9), Up-to-the-Minute Fiction (7), Urgent Books of Current Affairs (8), World History (15), Writers to Discover (8), Young Adult (1), Zombie and Vampire (6), No Category (32)
Years:
All, 2023 (198), 2022 (190), 2021 (194), 2020 (213), 2019 (186), 2018 (182), 2017 (18), 2016 (190), 2015 (182), 2014 (176), 2013 (202), 2012 (201), 2011 (154), 2010 (193), 2008 (2), 2007 (2), 2006 (2)
WorkCategoryYear
Napoleon: The Decline and Fall of an Empire: 1811-1821 by Michael Broers
Biographies2022
Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
Biographies2022
Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell
Biographies2022
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery in an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge
Biographies2022
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
Biographies2022
Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life by Brigitta Olubas
Biographies2022
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne by Katherine Rundell
Biographies2022
Putin by Philip Short
Biographies2022
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets
Book Club Fiction2022
Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
Book Club Fiction2022
Devil House by John Darnielle
Book Club Fiction2022
The Candy House: A Novel by Jennifer Egan
Book Club Fiction2022
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Book Club Fiction2022
The Pages by Hugo Hamilton
Book Club Fiction2022
The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran
Book Club Fiction2022
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Book Club Fiction2022
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
Book Club Fiction2022
Sacrificio by Ernesto Mestre-Reed
Book Club Fiction2022
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Book Club Fiction2022
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
Book Club Fiction2022
Mecca by Susan Straight
Book Club Fiction2022
The Trayvon Generation: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow by Elizabeth Alexander
Books About Black Life in America2022
Black Skinhead: Reflections on Blackness and Our Political Future by Brandi Collins-Dexter
Books About Black Life in America2022
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride by David J. Dennis Jr.
Books About Black Life in America2022
My People: Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
Books About Black Life in America2022
Shelter: A Black Tale of Homeland, Baltimore by Lawrence Jackson
Books About Black Life in America2022
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Books About Black Life in America2022
Black Joy: Stories of Resistance, Resilience, and Restoration by Tracey M. Lewis-Giggetts
Books About Black Life in America2022
America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice by Treva B. Lindsey
Books About Black Life in America2022
His Name Is George Floyd: One Man's Life and the Struggle for Racial Justice by Robert Samuels
Books About Black Life in America2022
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments by D. Watkins
Books About Black Life in America2022
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse by Alora Young
Books About Black Life in America2022
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan by Elliot Ackerman
Current Affairs2022
Homecoming: The Path to Prosperity in a Post-Global World by Rana Foroohar
Current Affairs2022
Bravo Company: An Afghanistan Deployment and Its Aftermath by Ben Kesling
Current Affairs2022
Lady Justice: Women, the Law, and the Battle to Save America by Dahlia Lithwick
Current Affairs2022
The Storm Is Here: An American Crucible by Luke Mogelson
Current Affairs2022
Allow Me To Retort: A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution by Elie Mystal
Current Affairs2022
Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life by Alice Wong
Current Affairs2022
Teaching White Supremacy: America's Democratic Ordeal and the Forging of Our National Identity by Donald Yacovone
Current Affairs2022
Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades
Debut Fiction2022
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Debut Fiction2022
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Debut Fiction2022
Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
Debut Fiction2022
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
Debut Fiction2022
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie
Debut Fiction2022
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
Debut Fiction2022
Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm by Laura Warrell
Debut Fiction2022
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners by Margaret A. Burnham
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route by Sally Hayden
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation by Erika Krouse
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
What We Wish Were True: Reflections on Nurturing Life and Facing Death by Tallu Schuyler Quinn
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson
Difficult but Necessary Reads2022
Portrait of an Unknown Lady by María Gainza
Fiction in Translation2022
Canción by Eduardo Halfon
Fiction in Translation2022
Witches by Brenda Lozano
Fiction in Translation2022
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
Fiction in Translation2022
Scattered All Over the Earth by Yōko Tawada
Fiction in Translation2022
Invasion of the Spirit People by Juan Pablo Villalobos
Fiction in Translation2022
The Family Chao by Lan Samantha Chang
Fictional Families2022
The Family Izquierdo: A Novel by Rubén Degollado
Fictional Families2022
Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
Fictional Families2022
The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
Fictional Families2022
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
Fictional Families2022
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Fictional Families2022
This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
Fictional Families2022
Scary Monsters by Michelle De Kretser
Fictional Voices2022
More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
Fictional Voices2022
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham
Fictional Voices2022
2 A.M. in Little America by Ken Kalfus
Fictional Voices2022
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Fictional Voices2022
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
Fictional Voices2022
My Volcano by John Elizabeth Stintzi
Fictional Voices2022
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Fictional Voices2022
Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
Fictional Voices2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Fictional Voices2022
Yonder by Jabari Asim
Historical Fiction2022
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Historical Fiction2022
Trust by Hernan Diaz
Historical Fiction2022
Afterlives: A Novel by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Historical Fiction2022
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Historical Fiction2022
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
Historical Fiction2022
Le ultime ore di Ludwig Pollak by Hans von Trotha
Historical Fiction2022
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger
History2022
The Last Campaign: Sherman, Geronimo and the War for America by H. W. Brands
History2022
Asian American Histories of the United States (REVISIONING HISTORY) by Catherine Ceniza Choy
History2022
Woman: The American History of an Idea by Lillian Faderman
History2022
Watergate: A New History by Garrett M. Graff
History2022
Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America by Pekka Hämäläinen
History2022
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
History2022
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party by Michael Kazin
History2022
The Nineties: A Book by Chuck Klosterman
History2022
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
History2022
Requiem for the Massacre: A Black History on the Conflict, Hope, and Fallout of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massac re by R. J. Young
History2022
Normal Family: On Truth, Love, and How I Met My 35 Siblings by Chrysta Bilton
Memoirs2022
Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
Memoirs2022
Fatty Fatty Boom Boom: A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family by Rabia Chaudry
Memoirs2022
Aurelia, Aurélia: A Memoir by Kathryn Davis
Memoirs2022
Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood: Coming of Age in the Sixties by John D’Emilio
Memoirs2022
The Third Person by Emma Grove
Memoirs2022
All Down Darkness Wide: A Memoir by Seán Hewitt
Memoirs2022
Stay True by Hua Hsu
Memoirs2022
Life's Work: A Memoir by David Milch
Memoirs2022
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks
Memoirs2022
A Billion Years: My Escape From a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology by Mike Rinder
Memoirs2022
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers by Mary Rodgers
Memoirs2022
Nein, Nein, Nein!: One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust by Jerry Stahl
Memoirs2022
Imagine a City: A Pilot's Journey Across the Urban World by Mark Vanhoenacker
Memoirs2022
A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents by Mary-Alice Daniel
Multicultural2022
Manifesto: On Never Giving Up by Bernardine Evaristo
Multicultural2022
The Black Period: On Personhood, Race, and Origin by Hafizah Augustus Geter
Multicultural2022
My Seven Black Fathers by Will Jawando
Multicultural2022
The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar
Multicultural2022
In Sensorium: Notes for My People by AS TAN
Multicultural2022
Koshersoul: The Faith and Food Journey of an African American Jew by Michael W. Twitty
Multicultural2022
Why Didn’t You Tell Me?: A Memoir by Carmen Rita Wong
Multicultural2022
The 6:20 Man by David Baldacci
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
The Christie Affair by Nina de Gramont
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
The Berlin Exchange by Joseph Kanon
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
Two Nights in Lisbon by Chris Pavone
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
Diablo Mesa by Douglas Preston
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
The Maid by Nita Prose
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
What Happened to the Bennetts by Lisa Scottoline
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
Secret Identity by Alex Segura
Mysteries & Thrillers2022
Birds and Us: A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation by Tim Birkhead
Nature & Environment2022
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Stephen L. Brusatte
Nature & Environment2022
Life on the Mississippi: An Epic American Adventure by Rinker Buck
Nature & Environment2022
Wild New World: The Epic Story of Animals and People in America by Dan Flores
Nature & Environment2022
Thin Places by Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Nature & Environment2022
At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth by Madeline Ostrander
Nature & Environment2022
Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W. Reid
Nature & Environment2022
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us by Ed Yong
Nature & Environment2022
Ruby Fever by Ilona Andrews
Romance2022
From Bad to Cursed by Lana Harper
Romance2022
Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Romance2022
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera
Romance2022
Where We End & Begin by Jane Igharo
Romance2022
Heartbreaker by Sarah MacLean
Romance2022
The Marquess Makes His Move by Diana Quincy
Romance2022
The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon
Romance2022
The Bride Goes Rogue by Joanna Shupe
Romance2022
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv
Science and Medicine2022
Fine: A Comic About Gender by Rhea Ewing
Science and Medicine2022
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I by Lindsey Fitzharris
Science and Medicine2022
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Science and Medicine2022
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke
Science and Medicine2022
The Evolution of Charles Darwin: The Epic Voyage of the Beagle That Forever Changed Our View of Life on Earth by Diana Preston
Science and Medicine2022
Breathless: The Scientific Race to Defeat a Deadly Virus by David Quammen
Science and Medicine2022
Desperate Remedies: Psychiatry’s Turbulent Quest to Cure Mental Illness by Andrew Scull
Science and Medicine2022
The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher
Science and Medicine2022
Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist by Frans de Waal
Science and Medicine2022
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
The art of prophecy : a novel by Wesley Chu
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
Moon Witch, Spider King by Marlon James
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
A Taste of Gold and Iron by Alexandra Rowland
Science Fiction and Fantasy2022
Natural History: Stories by Andrea Barrett
Short Fiction2022
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere by Sindya Bhanoo
Short Fiction2022
Pretend It's My Body: Stories by Luke Dani Blue
Short Fiction2022
If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
Short Fiction2022
Stories from the Tenants Downstairs by Sidik Fofana
Short Fiction2022
Out There: Stories by Kate Folk
Short Fiction2022
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
Short Fiction2022
A Calm and Normal Heart: Stories by Chelsea T. Hicks
Short Fiction2022
The Last Suspicious Holdout: Stories by Ladee Hubbard
Short Fiction2022
God's Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu
Short Fiction2022
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai
Short Fiction2022
Nobody Gets Out Alive: Stories by Leigh Newman
Short Fiction2022
New and Selected Stories by Cristina Rivera-Garza
Short Fiction2022
Liberation Day: Stories by George Saunders
Short Fiction2022
Night of the Living Rez: Stories by Morgan Talty
Short Fiction2022
The Angel of Rome and Other Stories by Jess Walter
Short Fiction2022
Your Nostalgia is Killing Me (Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction) by John Weir
Short Fiction2022
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
World History2022
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
World History2022
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
World History2022
The Abyss: Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962 by Max Hastings
World History2022
Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 by Harald Jähner
World History2022
Come to This Court and Cry: How the Holocaust Ends by Linda Kinstler
World History2022
Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez
World History2022
The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People by Walter Russell Mead
World History2022

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