The 6 Best Books of 2022

It’s a tight list of favorites this year: a few brilliantly imaginative novels, two deeply affecting memoirs, one intimate poetry collection, and a book of unhinged short stories.

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin”/>

  Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

  One of the most special novels written in the past decade. This story follows two friends who form a thrilling creative partnership that drives them together and apart over the course of their young lives.

• Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej”/>

  Little Rabbit by Alyssa Songsiridej

  If you liked Lusterthis one is for you. Alyssa Songsiridej’s seductive debut novel is about the taut and twisted relationship between a 30-year-old sometime writer and a 51-year-old established choreographer.

• Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz”/>

  Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz

  Exquisite. In this memoir-slash-guidebook, Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Kathryn Schulz weaves together a fascinating story of loss, discovery, and love that is both deeply personal and cosmic.

• Stay True by Hua Hsu”/>

  Stay True by Hua Hsu

  A memoir of friendship, art, and the work of growing up and becoming yourself, from New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu.

• Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong”/>

  Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong

  In this evocative, tender poetry collection, Ocean Vuong (author of the novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous) explores grief, memory, and the intimacy of language in the wake of his mother’s death.

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  Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo

  No one writes like Lisa Taddeo—every sentence so full of desire and so true. Ghost Lover is a collection of nine stories about obsessed, possessed, ravaged, and ravaging women.

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