Best Books of the Year So Far in 2022 [podcast]

Everyone loves a top ten list, especially if it includes a great summer reading list. The Amazon Books editors Lindsay Powers and her colleagues have compiled the Best Books of the Year So Far in 2022.

 

RANK

 

TITLE

AUTHOR

PUB

1

Remarkably Bright Creatures

Van Pelt, Shelby

Ecco

2

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

Foo, Stephanie

Ballantine Books

3

All My Rage

Tahir, Sabaa

Razorbill

4

The Maid

Prose, Nita

Ballantine Books

5

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile

Millard, Candice

Doubleday

6

Lessons in Chemistry: A Novel

Bonnie Garmus

Doubleday

7

Memphis

Stringfellow, Tara M.

Dial

8

Sea of Tranquility

Emily St. John Mandel

Knopf

9

Half-Blown Rose

Leesa Cross-Smith

Hachette

10

Hello, Molly!: A Memoir

Shannon, Molly

Ecco

11

The Kaiju Preservation Society

Scalzi, John

Tor Books

12

Sleepwalk

Dan Chaon

Henry Holt

13

The First Kennedys: The Humble Roots of an American Dynasty

Thompson, Neal

Mariner Books

14

Such Big Dreams

Reema Patel

Ballantine

15

Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart

Grove

16

Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases

Holes, Paul

Celadon Books

17

Nightcrawling

Leila Mottley

Knopf

18

Black Cake

Wilkerson, Charmaine

Ballantine Books

19

The Final Strife

Saara El-Arifi

Random House

20

The Unsinkable Greta James

Smith, Jennifer E.

Ballantine Books

 

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