Best Books of 2022

It's estimated that around 2 to 3 million books are published every year. Luckily, ThriftBooks knows books pretty well, so we've narrowed that list down to the best of 2022's new releases. Here they are, the best books of the year 2022!

Literature & Fiction

The Book Woman's Daughter

Kim Michele Richardson

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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

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You've Lost a Lot of Blood

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The Winners (Beartown, #3)

Fredrik Backman

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Dark Whisper

Christine Feehan

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Night of the Living Rez

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Kids' & YA

Cat Kid Comic Club #3: A Graphic Novel: From the Creator of Dog Man

Dav Pilkey

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Cat Kid Comic Club #4: A Graphic Novel: From the Creator of Dog Man

Dav Pilkey

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Knight Owl

Christopher Denise

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Where's Bluey?: A Search-And-Find Book

Penguin Young Readers Licenses

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I'm So Glad You Were Born: Celebrating Who You Are

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Heartstopper: Volume Four

Alice Oseman

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Anatomy: A Love Story

Dana Schwartz

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The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

Axie Oh

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The Final Gambit

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

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The First to Die at the End

Adam Silvera

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Kingdom of the Feared

Kerri Maniscalco

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Our Crooked Hearts

Melissa Albert

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Nonfiction

I'm Glad My Mom Died

Jennette McCurdy

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Make, Sew and Mend: Traditional Techniques to Sustainably Maintain and Refashion Your Clothes

Bernadette Banner

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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Emma Y Las Otras Señoras del Narco / Emma and Other Narco Women

Anabel Hernández

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The Light We Carry

Michelle Obama

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Faith Still Moves Mountains: Miraculous Stories of the Healing Power of Prayer

Harris Faulkner

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River of the Gods: Sir Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, Sidi Mubarak Bombay and the Epic Search for the Source of the Nile

Candice Millard

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Solito

Javier Zamora

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And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle

Jon Meacham

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The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World

Jonathan Freedland

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American Midnight: Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, 1917-1921

Adam Hochschild

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The Nineties

Chuck Klosterman

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Mystery, Thriller, & Suspense

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The Butcher and the Wren

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The House Across the Lake

Riley Sager

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The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery

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In the Blood: A Thriller

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Romance

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Hook, Line, and Sinker

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Things We Never Got Over

Lucy Score

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The Spanish Love Deception

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Delilah Green Doesn't Care

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Sci-Fi & Fantasy

House of Sky and Breath

Sarah J. Maas

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The Never King

Nikki St. Crowe

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Babel or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revoluti

R.F. Kuang

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Legends & Lattes

Travis Baldree

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A Prayer for the Crown-Shy

Becky Chambers

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Soul Taken

Patricia Briggs

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Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu (Novel) Vol. 2

Mò Xing Tóng Xiù

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The Golden Enclaves

Naomi Novik

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The Reign of Osiris (Ramses the Damned #3)

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Memory's Legion: The Complete Expanse Story Collection

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Cookbooks

Half Baked Harvest Every Day: Recipes for Balanced, Flexible, Feel-Good Meals

Tieghan Gerard

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Korean American: Food that Tastes Like Home

Eric Kim

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A Good Day to Bake: Simple Baking Recipes for Every Mood

Benjamina Ebuehi

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Snacks for Dinner: Small Bites, Full Plates, Can't Lose

Lukas Volger

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The Wok: Recipes and Techniques

J. Kenji López-Alt

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Bludso's BBQ Cookbook: A Family Affair in Smoke and Soul

Noah Galuten

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Watermelon and Red Birds: A Cookbook for Juneteenth and Black Celebrations

Nicole A. Taylor

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The Cook You Want to Be: Everyday Recipes to Impress

Andy Baraghani

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The Vegan Chinese Kitchen: Recipes and Modern Stories from a Thousand-Year-Old Tradition

Hannah Che

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Home Is Where the Eggs Are

Molly Yeh

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Bread Head: Baking for the Road Less Traveled

Greg Wade

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Persiana Everyday

Sabrina Ghayour

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Rambutan: Recipes from Sri Lanka

Cynthia Shanmugalingam

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The British Cookbook

Ben Mervis

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Diasporican: A Puerto Rican Cookbook

Illyanna Maisonet

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First Generation: Recipes from My Taiwanese-American Home [A Cookbook]

Frankie Gaw

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Smitten Kitchen Keepers: New Classics for Your Forever Files

Deb Perelman

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The Art of Pantry Cooking: Meals for Family and Friends

Ronda Carman

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Colu Cooks: Easy Fancy Food

Colu Henry

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Featured Author

James Patterson

The author of the year for 2022 is James Patterson. With fourteen books published this year, he has been and remains one of the most prolific and popular modern writers. Although best known for his Mystery, Thriller & Suspense titles, he's authored works in many genres, from Non-Fiction to Young Adult, Historical Fiction, and Romance.

Patterson has the distinction of making our full Best Books of 2022 list three times, with his books The Horsewoman, Run Rose Run, and 22 Seconds.

Book Riot's Best of 2022

Ask the Brindled

No‘u Revilla

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Babel or The Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revoluti

R.F. Kuang

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Bathe the Cat

Alice B. McGinty

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Black Cake

Charmaine Wilkerson

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Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan

Randall Kenan

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Book Lovers

Emily Henry

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Desert Creatures

Kay Chronister

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Green Lantern: Alliance

Minh Lê

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Greenland: A Novel

David Santos Donaldson

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The Other Mother

Rachel M. Harper

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How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Angie Cruz

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It Won't Always Be Like This

Malaka Gharib

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Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Juno Dawson

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Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

Kim Fu

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Reader, I Murdered Him

Betsy Cornwell

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Michelle Huneven

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Siren Queen

Nghi Vo

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The Book Eaters

Sunyi Dean

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The Cartographers

Peng Shepherd

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The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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The Hacienda

Isabel Cañas

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The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy

Megan Bannen

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The Weight of Blood

Tiffany D. Jackson

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Thistlefoot

GennaRose Nethercott

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Unlikely Animals

Annie Hartnett

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When Women Were Dragons

Kelly Barnhill

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When You Call My Name

Tucker Shaw

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