Our speakers have had an incredible year! As 2022 comes to a close, we are proud to showcase some of this year’s celebrated books from authors on our roster. These debuts, award-winners, and fan favorites are a wonderful reminder of the universal impact of books, year after year.
Best Books of the Year
River of Gods – Candice Millard
BookPage’s Best Books of 2022
“Millard recounts all of these travails with a fluid grace that wears its learning lightly.”—The Washington Post
Our Missing Hearts – Celeste Ng
TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2022 • A Reese’s Book Club Pick • Barnes & Noble’s 10 Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022 • Amazon’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“It’s impossible not to be moved.” —Stephen King, The New York Times Book Review
Signal Fires – Dani Shapiro
TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“Powerful work that delves into the consequences of a long-hidden lie . . . Signal Fires doesn’t shy away from loss but seeks to balance grief with grace. Shapiro’s novel offers the comfort of a view from the stars.” —The Washington Post
Take My Hand – Dolen Perkins-Valdez
NPR’s Best Books of 2022 • Amazon’s Best Books of 2022
“Deeply empathetic yet unflinching in its gaze…an unforgettable exploration of responsibility and redemption.” —Celeste Ng
An Immerse World – Ed Yong
Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022 • New York Times‘ Books of 2022 • People Magazine’s Best Books of 2022 • The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • Smithsonian’s Best Book of 2022 •The Economist’s Best Books of 2022 • The Globe and Mail’s Best Books of 2022 • The New Stateman’s Books of the Year 2022 • The Guardian’s Best Science Books of 2022 • Esquire’s Best Books of 2022 • ScienceNews’ Best Books of 2022 • Philadelphia Inquirer’s Top 10 Books of 2022 • Slate’s Best Nonfiction Books of 2022 • Barnes and Noble’s Best Book of 2022 Finalist
“One of this year’s finest works of narrative nonfiction.”—Oprah Daily
Lucy by the Sea – Elizabeth Strout
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“Strout managed to make me love this strange woman I’d never met, who I knew nothing about. What a terrific writer she is.”—Zadie Smith
Sea of Tranquility – Emily St. John Mandel
Longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction • NPR’s Best Books of 2022 • Esquire’s Best Books of 2022 • Amazon’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“One of [Mandel’s] finest novels and one of her most satisfying forays into the arena of speculative fiction yet.” —The New York Times
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow – Gabrielle Zevin
Amazon Best Book of the Year • A Jimmy Fallon Book Club Pick • A TIME Must-Read Book of 2022 • A Washington Post’s Notable Work of Fiction • BookPage’s Best Fiction of 2022
“Utterly brilliant. In this sweeping, gorgeously written novel, Gabrielle Zevin charts the beauty, tenacity, and fragility of human love and creativity…. One of the best books I’ve ever read.” —John Green
Horse – Geraldine Brooks
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • Amazon’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“Brooks’ chronological and cross-disciplinary leaps are thrilling.” —The New York Times Book Review
To Paradise – Hanya Yanagihara
President Obama’s Summer Reading List • Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 • NPR’s Best Books of 2022 • Esquire’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“A tale of manners, family, migration, and political dystopia that reads like Edith Wharton meets Jonathan Franzen meets Mohsin Hamid meets George Orwell.” –Vanity Fair
Trust – Hernan Diaz
Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize • Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 • The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2022 • New York Times‘ Books of 2022
“Exhilarating.” —New York Times
The Man Who Could Move Clouds – Ingrid Sojas Contreras
National Book Award Finalist • Longlisted for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • CALIBA Golden Poppy/Martin Cruz Smith Award Finalist • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022
“Striking…Beautifully written and layered, an empowering act of recovery and self-discovery.”—San Francisco Chronicle
Solito – Javier Zamora
Amazon’s Best Books of 2022
“An important, beautiful work.”—The New York Times Book Review
The Candy House – Jennifer Egan
Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 • The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 • NPR’s Best Books of 2022 • Esquire’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022 • New York Times‘ Books of 2022
“Jennifer Egan’s new novel skips joyfully back and forth between characters, plots and timelines at a hair-raising pace.”—TIME
Nightcrawling – Leila Mottley
Nominated for Booker Prize • Nominated for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize • The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction
“A soul-searching portrait of survival and hope.” —Oprah Winfrey
Half American – Dr. Matthew Delmont
BookPage’s Best Books of 2022
“Delmont is an energetic storyteller, giving a vibrant sense of his subject in all of its dimensions.”—Jennifer Szalai, New York Times
The Last White Man – Mohsin Hamid
Vogue’s Best Books of 2022
“A moral fable for our entire harrowing world. . . . exquisitely evoked by Hamid in a mesmerizing, serpentine style. . . The Last White Man offers its own small ray of light.”—Los Angeles Times
The Furrows – Namwali Serpell
Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of 2022 • The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2022 • Vulture’s Best Books of 2022 • Esquire’s Best Books of 2022 • BookPage’s Best Books of 2022 • The Washington Post’s 50 Notable Works of Fiction • New York Times‘ Books of 2022
“A necessary read.”—President Barack Obama
Time is a Mother – Ocean Vuong
Vogue’s Best Books of 2022 • NPR’s Best Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • TIME Magazine’s Best Books of 2022
“Take your time with these poems, and return to them often.” —The Washington Post
Lapvona – Ottessa Moshfegh
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022
“The disturbing intensity of the novel hearkens to Moshfegh’s acclaimed McGlue and Eileen, but this story feels far more riotous, debauched and voracious.” —Washington Post
Home/Land – Rebecca Mead
The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022
“Exquisite detail . . . [With] many arresting images and diverting anecdotes . . . [Mead] has an exacting eye and a gift for trenchant phrasing.”—Becca Rothfeld, The New York Times
All My Rage – Sabaa Tahir
National Book Award Wiiner for Young People’s Literature
“All My Rage is a love story, a tragedy and an infectious teenage fever dream about what home means when you feel you don’t fit in.” — New York Times Book Review
The Light We Give – Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Publishers Weekly’s 2022
“I love this book… It is rich in wisdom, religious and personal, and it is absolutely charming.” —Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow
Carrie Soto is Back – Taylor Jenkins Reid
TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022 • Amazon’s Best Books of 2022
“A heart-filled novel about an iconic and persevering father and daughter.”—Time
The Emergency – Dr. Thomas Fisher
TIME Magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2022
“Gripping . . . eloquent . . . This book reminds us how permanently interesting our bodies are, especially when they go wrong.”—The New York Times