The Top 20 books of 2022 as rated by BookBrowse subscribers

Lessons in Chemistry

A Novel

by Bonnie Garmus

Hardcover: Apr 2022 | Paperback: Apr 2025

A must-read debut! Meet Elizabeth Zott: a "formidable, unapologetic and inspiring" (Parade) scientist in 1960s California whose career takes a detour when she becomes the unlikely star of a beloved TV cooking show in this novel that is "irresistible,...

Remarkably Bright Creatures

A Novel

by Shelby Van Pelt

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Mar 2025

Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Debut Award

For fans of A Man Called Ove, a charming, witty and compulsively readable exploration of friendship, reckoning, and hope that traces a widow's unlikely connection with a giant Pacific octopus.

Demon Copperhead

A Novel

by Barbara Kingsolver

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2024

From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero's unforgettable journey to maturity.

Horse

A Novel

by Geraldine Brooks

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jan 2024

Winner of the 2022 BookBrowse Fiction Award

A discarded painting in a junk pile, a skeleton in an attic, and the greatest racehorse in American history: from these strands, a Pulitzer Prize winner braids a sweeping story of spirit, obsession, and ...

Africa Is Not a Country

Notes on a Bright Continent

by Dipo Faloyin

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Nov 2023

An exuberant, opinionated, stereotype-busting portrait of contemporary Africa in all its splendid diversity, by one of its leading new writers.

The Story of Russia

by Orlando Figes

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Sep 2023

From "the great storyteller of Russian history" (Financial Times), a brilliant account of the national mythologies and imperial ideologies that have shaped Russia's past and politics - essential reading for understanding the country today.

Dinosaurs

A Novel

by Lydia Millet

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

Over twelve novels and two collections Lydia Millet has emerged as a major American novelist. Hailed as "a writer without limits" (Karen Russell) and "a stone-cold genius" (Jenny Offill), Millet makes fiction that vividly evokes the ties between ...

Our Missing Hearts

A Novel

by Celeste Ng

Hardcover: Oct 2022 | Paperback: Aug 2023

From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother's unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.

The Marriage Portrait

A novel

by Maggie O'Farrell

Hardcover: Sep 2022 | Paperback: Jul 2023

The author of Hamnet - New York Times bestseller and National Book Award winner - brings the world of Renaissance Italy to jewel-bright life in this unforgettable portrait of the captivating young duchess Lucrezia de' Medici as she makes her way in a...

Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden

Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

by Zhuqing Li

Hardcover: Jun 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence.

The Colony

A Novel

by Audrey Magee

Hardcover: May 2022 | Paperback: Jun 2023

In 1979, as violence erupts all over Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of their own answers, despite what it may cost the islanders.

Properties of Thirst

by Marianne Wiggins

Hardcover: Aug 2022 | Paperback: May 2023

Fifteen years after the publication of Evidence of Things Unseen, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist Marianne Wiggins returns with a novel destined to be an American classic: a sweeping masterwork set during World War II about the ...