The Ultimate Best Books of 2022 List

The Ultimate Best Books of 2022 List

Reading All the Lists So You Don't Have to Since 2017

By Emily Temple | December 19, 2022

The 10 Best Book Reviews </br>of 2022

The 10 Best Book Reviews
of 2022

Merve Emre on Gerald Murnane, Casey Cep on Harry Crews, Maggie Doherty on Cormac McCarthy, and More

By Adam Morgan | December 19, 2022

88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022

88 Writers on the Books They Loved in 2022

The Year in Reading From Contributors to Freeman’s

By Literary Hub | December 19, 2022

Reclaiming <em>The L Word</em>’s Jenny Schecter as a Writerly Anti-Hero

Reclaiming The L Word’s Jenny Schecter as a Writerly Anti-Hero

Amy Zimmerman Thinks We Ought to Take the Much-Maligned Character More Seriously

By Amy Zimmerman | December 19, 2022

Peter Orner and Emma Cline Discuss Endings, Memory, and Writing Against Classification

Peter Orner and Emma Cline Discuss Endings, Memory, and Writing Against Classification

“A last line isn’t the last line, it’s just the last one we say out loud.”

By Emma Cline | December 19, 2022

Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

Namwali Serpell on the “Uncanny Rhythm” of Poetry and Grief

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | December 19, 2022

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Villa Coco
  • Something We Said: Richard Pryor, a Notorious Word, and Me
  • Contrapposto
  • Earth 7
  • The Traveler: One Man's Quest for Humanity from the South Seas to Revolutionary Paris
  • Flyboy in the Buttermilk: Essays on Contemporary America

The 13 Best Literary Adaptations of 2022

By Emily Temple | December 16, 2022

The Best Reviewed Essay Collections of 2022

By Book Marks | December 16, 2022

Rabih Alameddine Recommends the Best (Short) Books He Read in 2022

By Rabih Alameddine | December 16, 2022

The Best Reviewed Poetry Collections of 2022

The Best Reviewed Poetry Collections of 2022

Featuring Ada Limón, Ocean Vuong, Solmaz Sharif, and More

By Book Marks | December 16, 2022

What Makes Writing Valuable?

What Makes Writing Valuable?

William Pierce Addresses a Fraught Subject

By William Pierce | December 16, 2022

Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

Jess Walter on the Highsmithian Principles of Suspense

On Drama, Suspense, Violence, Psychology, and a Dose of Soul

By Jess Walter | December 16, 2022

50 Gift Books for Everyone on Your List

50 Gift Books for Everyone on Your List

You Get a Book! You Get a Book! Everybody Gets a Book!!

By Katie Yee | December 15, 2022

The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2022

The 10 Most Popular Lit Hub Stories of 2022

On Wednesdays We Read Lit Hub

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2022

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Life Advice for Book Lovers: For a Dose of Optimism, Read This.

Book Recommendations for the Troubled Soul

By Dorothea | December 15, 2022

The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

The Best and Worst Dinner Parties in Literature: Mar-A-Lago Edition, Featuring Michael Knight

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | December 15, 2022

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