2022 Notable Books for Adults

Description
Since 1944, the goal of the Notable Books Council has been to make available to the nation’s readers a list of very good, very readable, and at times very important fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books for the adult reader. This is the 2022 list.
1
Afterparties: Stories
by Anthony Veasna So
572 members
24 reviews
4
3 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy, ManWithAnAgenda
Explanations
sturlington: Short stories
2
Matrix
by Lauren Groff
2,314 members
111 reviews
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy
3
Painting Time
by Maylis de Kerangal
171 members
3 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy
4
The Wrong End of the Telescope
by Rabih Alameddine
246 members
10 reviews
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, kara.shamy
5
Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
7,611 members
306 reviews
3.8
Member
sturlington
6
Cloud Cuckoo Land
by Anthony Doerr
5,967 members
215 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
7
Hell of a Book
by Jason Mott
886 members
51 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
8
The Five Wounds
by Kirstin Valdez Quade
591 members
23 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
9
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
2,264 members
85 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
sturlington
10
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
by Clint Smith
1,851 members
52 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
sturlington
11
When We Cease to Understand the World
by Benjamín Labatut
1,994 members
78 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
12
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
1,590 members
49 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
13
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
by Ibram X. Kendi
1,170 members
25 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
14
A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance
by Hanif Abdurraqib
609 members
18 reviews
½ 4.5
Member
sturlington
15
Pastoral Song: A Farmer's Journey
by James Rebanks
540 members
15 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
16
People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
by Dara Horn
493 members
33 reviews
½ 4.4
Member
sturlington
17
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul
319 members
8 reviews
4
Member
sturlington
18
Poet Warrior: A Memoir
by Joy Harjo
327 members
7 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
19
Winter Recipes from the Collective: Poems
by Louise Glück
272 members
5 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
20
The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
by Brian Alexander
168 members
14 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
22
Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist's Memoir of the Jim Crow South
by Winfred Rembert
185 members
6 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
sturlington
23
Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
by Rita Dove
123 members
5 reviews
4.1
Member
sturlington
24
Gordo
by Jaime Cortez
91 members
4 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington
25
The Renunciations: Poems
by Donika Kelly
73 members
3 reviews
4.2
Member
sturlington