The best books of 2022 - The Boston Globe

Fiction| Nonfiction| Poetry| Children's

The past year may have swung from high to low to everything in between, but it was undeniably a great year for books. Of the countless wonderful titles published in 2022, here’s a highly subjective list of 55 we loved most in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and works for children and young adults. We hope you, too, will find some treasures among them, and share your own 2022-published discoveries with us.

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CREDITS

Stephanie Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. Her own new book of poems is “We Are Mermaids.”

Gabino Iglesias is a book critic and the author of “The Devil Takes You Home.”.

Laura Koenig is the head of Central Library Children’s Services at the Boston Public Library.

Lauren LeBlanc is a writer and editor who lives in Chapel Hill, N.C. Her Substack newsletter is https://laurenleblanc.substack.com/.

Adriana E. Ramírez is a writer based in Pittsburgh. She is the author of “Dead Boys: A Memoir.”

Joshunda Sanders is author of the forthcoming novel “Women of the Post.”

Christopher Spaide is a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows.

Daneet Steffens is a journalist and critic. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @daneetsteffens.

Chris Vognar a freelance culture writer, was the 2009 Nieman Arts and Culture Fellow at Harvard University.

Renata Sancken is a teen services librarian at Memorial Hall Library in Andover and a co-host of the Worst Bestsellers podcast.

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