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Chow, Lucy Feldman, Mahita Gajanan, Annabel Gutterman, Angela Haupt, Cady Lang, and Laura Zornosa ## Best Books 2022 *  [A Heart That Works](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228395/a-heart-that-works/) by Rob Delaney byTIME Staff *  [Afterlives](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228414/afterlives/) by Abdulrazak Gurnah byTIME Staff *  [All the Lovers in the Night](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228416/all-the-lovers-in-the-night/) by Mieko Kawakami byTIME Staff *  [All This Could Be Different](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6229047/all-this-could-be-different/) by Sarah Thankam Mathews byTIME Staff *  [An Immense World](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228427/an-immense-world/) by Ed Yong byTIME Staff *  [Ancestor Trouble](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228429/ancestor-trouble/) by Maud Newton byTIME Staff *  [Animal Joy](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228432/animal-joy/) by Nuar Alsadir byTIME Staff *  [Anna: The Biography](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228434/anna-the-biography/) by Amy Odell byTIME Staff *  [Babel](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228437/babel/) by R.F. Kuang byTIME Staff *  [Bitter Orange Tree](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228439/bitter-orange-tree/) by Jokha Alharthi byTIME Staff *  [The Book of Goose](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228442/the-book-of-goose/) by Yiyun Li byTIME Staff *  [Breathless](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228444/breathless/) by David Quammen byTIME Staff *  [Butts: A Backstory](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228446/butts-a-backstory/) by Heather Radke byTIME Staff *  [Calling for a Blanket Dance](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228448/calling-for-a-blanket-dance/) by Oscar Hokeah byTIME Staff *  [The Candy House](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228450/the-candy-house/) by Jennifer Egan byTIME Staff *  [Carrie Soto Is Back](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228452/carrie-soto-is-back/) by Taylor Jenkins Reid byTIME Staff *  [Chef's Kiss](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228454/chefs-kiss/) by TJ Alexander byTIME Staff *  [Civil Rights Queen](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228456/civil-rights-queen/) by Tomiko Brown-Nagin byTIME Staff *  [Constructing a Nervous System](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228458/constructing-a-nervous-system/) by Margo Jefferson byTIME Staff *  [Cover Story](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228461/cover-story/) by Susan Rigetti byTIME Staff *  [The Crane Wife](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228463/the-crane-wife/) by CJ Hauser byTIME Staff *  [The Daughter of Doctor Moreau](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228471/the-daughter-of-doctor-moreau/) by Silvia Moreno-Garcia byTIME Staff *  [Dinosaurs](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228473/dinosaurs/) by Lydia Millet byTIME Staff *  [Dirtbag, Massachusetts](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228475/dirtbag-massachusetts/) by Isaac Fitzgerald byTIME Staff *  [Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228477/ducks-two-years-in-the-oil-sands/) by Kate Beaton byTIME Staff *  [Easy Beauty](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228480/easy-beauty/) by Chloé Cooper Jones byTIME Staff *  [Eating to Extinction](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228482/eating-to-extinction/) by Dan Saladino byTIME Staff *  [Either/Or](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228484/either-or/) by Elif Batuman byTIME Staff *  [The Emergency](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228486/the-emergency/) by Thomas Fisher byTIME Staff *  [The Employees](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228498/the-employees/) by Olga Ravn byTIME Staff *  [The Escape Artist](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228500/the-escape-artist/) by Jonathan Freedland byTIME Staff *  [Everything I Need I Get from You](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228502/everything-i-need-i-get-from-you/) by Kaitlyn Tiffany byTIME Staff *  [The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228504/the-extraordinary-life-of-an-ordinary-man/) by Paul Newman byTIME Staff *  [The Family Outing](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228506/the-family-outing/) by Jessi Hempel byTIME Staff *  [Fellowship Point](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228508/fellowship-point/) by Alice Elliott Dark byTIME Staff *  [Finding Me](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228510/finding-me/) by Viola Davis byTIME Staff *  [Fiona and Jane](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228512/fiona-and-jane/) by Jean Chen Ho byTIME Staff *  [The Furrows](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228514/the-furrows/) by Namwali Serpell byTIME Staff *  [Getting Lost](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228517/getting-lost/) by Annie Ernaux byTIME Staff *  [Glory](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228519/glory/) by NoViolet Bulawayo byTIME Staff *  [Goliath](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228521/goliath/) by Tochi Onyebuchi byTIME Staff *  [Half American](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228523/half-american/) by Matthew F. Delmont byTIME Staff *  [The Hero of This Book](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228525/the-hero-of-this-book/) by Elizabeth McCracken byTIME Staff *  [His Name Is George Floyd](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228528/his-name-is-george-floyd/) by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa byTIME Staff *  [Honey & Spice](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228531/honey-and-spice-2/) by Bolu Babalola byTIME Staff *  [How Far the Light Reaches](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228533/how-far-the-light-reaches/) by Sabrina Imbler byTIME Staff *  [The Hurting Kind](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228535/the-hurting-kind/) by Ada Limón byTIME Staff *  [I Came All This Way to Meet You](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228537/i-came-all-this-way-to-meet-you/) by Jami Attenberg byTIME Staff *  [I'm Glad My Mom Died](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228539/im-glad-my-mom-died/) by Jennette McCurdy byTIME Staff *  [If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English](/collections/must-read-books-2022/6228541/if-an-egyptian-cannot-speak-english/) by Noor Naga byTIME Staff The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2022/"},"headline":"The 100 Must-Read Books of 2022","description":"Gripping novels, transporting poetry, and timely nonfiction that asked us to look deeper Andrew R. 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