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From staff picks to reader favorites to media honors, we've compiled our list of the Best Books of the Year. Check below to see if there's a must-read you missed. There's still time before the year is out!
The Candy House

A Novel

Featured on several lists including:

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022

NPR's Books We Love 2022

Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence

From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.

The Cloisters

A Novel

A Today Show #ReadWithJenna Book Club Pick

“For fans of The Talented Mr. Ripley and The Secret History…The perfect mystery for fall.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Today

In this “sinister, jaw-dropping” (Sarah Penner, author of The Lost Apothecary) debut novel, a circle of researchers uncover a mysterious deck of tarot cards and shocking secrets in New York’s famed Met Cloisters.

The Fortunes of Jaded Women

A Novel

Featured on several lists including:

NPR's Books We Love 2022

The Washington Post's Best Feel-Good Books of 2022

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK

For fans of Amy Tan, KJ Dell’Antonia, and Kevin Kwan, this “sharp, smart, and gloriously extra” (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, The Last Story of Mina Lee) debut celebrates a family of estranged Vietnamese women who experiences mishaps and unexpected joy after a psychic makes a startling prediction about their lives.

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Featured on several lists including:

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

Amazon's Top 20 Books of 2022

NPR's Books We Love 2022

A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life.

The School for Good Mothers

A Novel

Featured on several lists including:

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022

NPR's Books We Love 2022

Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence
Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize

In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance, in this “surreal” (People), “remarkable” (Vogue), and “infuriatingly timely” (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel.

The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

A Novel

A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick!

The New York Times bestselling author of the “mesmerizing and evocative” (Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants) Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet returns with a powerful exploration of the love that binds one family across the generations.

It Starts with Us

A Novel

Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.

The It Girl

Featured on several lists including:

The Wall Street Journal's Best Mystery Books of 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the “claustrophobic spine-tingler” (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend’s murder.

Butts

A Backstory

Featured on several lists including:

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

Amazon's Top 20 Books of 2022

“One of the year’s most ingenious and eye-opening cultural studies.” —Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2022

“Deeply thought, rigorously researched, and riveting...A pitch-perfect debut.” —Melissa Febos, bestselling author of Girlhood and Body Work

Fairy Tale

Featured on several lists including:

Amazon's Top 20 Books of 2022

Esquire's 50 Best Books of 2022

The Boston Globe's Best Fiction of 2022

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours.

Anna

The Biography

Featured on several lists including:

Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This definitive biography of Anna Wintour follows the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would—with singular and legendary focus—become one of the most powerful people in media.

The Winners

A Novel

A breathtaking new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anxious People and A Man Called Ove, The Winners returns to the close-knit, resilient community of Beartown for a story about first loves, second chances, and last goodbyes.

The Song of the Cell

An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human

Featured on several lists including:

The New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of 2022

Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2022

The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022

From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee’s revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer’s exploration of what it means to be human.

Gilded Mountain

A Novel

Featured on several lists including:

Amazon's Top 100 Books of 2022

A New York Times Editors’ Choice from critically acclaimed author Kate Manning, the exhilarating, epic tale of a young woman who bravely faces the consequences of exposing the corrupt practices that enriched her father's employers in early 1900s Colorado.

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