Afterlives
Abdulrazak Gurnah
Best books of 2022
The New Yorker’s books of 2022: 24 main picks and 309 more recommendations, across fiction, poetry and nonfiction.
Main picks
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun Li
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Checkout 19
Claire-Louise Bennett
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The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories
Jamil Jan Kochai
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The Last White Man
Mohsin Hamid
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Lessons
Ian McEwan
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The Rabbit Hutch
Tess Gunty
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Trust
Hernan Diaz
Also recommended
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Western Lane
Chetna Maroo
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My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
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Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion
Bushra Rehman
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The Mountain in the Sea
Ray Nayler
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No One Left to Come Looking for You
Sam Lipsyte
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Dr. No
Percival Everett
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The Latecomer
Jean Hanff Korelitz
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
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Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
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Flight
Lynn Steger Strong
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Scatterlings
Resoketswe Martha Manenzhe
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They’re Going to Love You
Meg Howrey
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Case Study
Graeme Macrae Burnet
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Life Is Everywhere
Lucy Ives
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Everything the Light Touches
Janice Pariat
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The Magic Kingdom
Russell Banks
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The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Shehan Karunatilaka
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When We Were Sisters
Fatimah Asghar
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The Hero of This Book
Elizabeth McCracken
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Properties of Thirst
Marianne Wiggins
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Haven
Emma Donoghue
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Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
Maddie Mortimer
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Where Did My Roommate Put My Charger?
Sarah Kempa
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The Birdcatcher
Gayl Jones
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Listening for Ghosts
David Rabe
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Liberation Day
George Saunders
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Marigold and Rose
Louise Glück
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The Slowworm’s Song
Andrew Miller
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Some of Them Will Carry Me
Giada Scodellaro
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Love & Vermin
Will McPhail
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Dinosaurs
Lydia Millet
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Jollof Rice and Other Revolutions
Omolola Ijeoma Ogunyemi
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I Walk Between the Raindrops
T. C. Boyle
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Bliss Montage
Ling Ma
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Two Nurses, Smoking
David Means
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Lucy by the Sea
Elizabeth Strout
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Less Is Lost
Andrew Sean Greer
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The Furrows
Namwali Serpell
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Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
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If I Survive You
Jonathan Escoffery
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One Beautiful Spring Day
Jim Woodring
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An Honest Living
Dwyer Murphy
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Girls They Write Songs About
Carlene Bauer
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One’s Company
Ashley Hutson
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Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley
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Horse
Geraldine Brooks
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Lapvona
Ottessa Moshfegh
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New and Selected Stories
Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated by Sarah Booker, Lisa Dillman, Francisca González Arias and Alex Ross
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Nevada
Imogen Binnie
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The Twilight World
Werner Herzog
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Tracy Flick Can’t Win
Tom Perrotta
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School Days
Jonathan Galassi
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Avalon
Nell Zink
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Love Marriage
Monica Ali
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Acts of Service
Lillian Fishman
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Either/Or
Elif Batuman
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Little Rabbit
Alyssa Songsiridej
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Eleutheria
Allegra Hyde
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Vagabonds!
Eloghosa Osunde
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Activities of Daily Living
Lisa Hsiao Chen
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Homesickness
Colin Barrett
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How Strange a Season
Megan Mayhew Bergman
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Glory
NoViolet Bulawayo
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Woman, Eating
Claire Kohda
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Mercy Street
Jennifer Haigh
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Let There Be Light
Liana Finck
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The Pages
Hugo Hamilton
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Animal Person
Alexander MacLeod
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The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
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Run and Hide
Pankaj Mishra
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The White Girl
Tony Birch
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Defenestrate
Renée Branum
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The Door-Man
Peter M. Wheelwright
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Sex and the Single Panda
Dahlia Gallin Ramirez
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The Torqued Man
Peter Mann
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Free Love
Tessa Hadley
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Black Cloud Rising
David Wright Faladé
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The Great Mrs. Elias
Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Last Resort
Andrew Lipstein
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Pure Colour
Sheila Heti
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Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au
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Very Cold People
Sarah Manguso
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Bibliolepsy
Gina Apostol
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The School for Good Mothers
Jessamine Chan
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Thank You, Mr. Nixon
Gish Jen
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The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed
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Joan Is Okay
Weike Wang
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The Stars Are Not Yet Bells
Hannah Lillith Assadi
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The Swank Hotel
Lucy Corin
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