Critics Agree: The Best Books of 2022

The Candy House, Fairy Tale, The Song of the Cell, Easy Beauty, and many more [- NEW RELEASES]( [- BESTSELLERS]( [- EBOOK DEALS]( [- AUTHORS]( [Simon & Schuster]( [NEW RELEASES]( | [BESTSELLERS]( | [EBOOK DEALS]( | [AUTHORS]( [Browser]( Border [Best Books of 2022]( [Best Books of 2022]( FICTION [The Candy House]( [LEARN MORE]( [The Candy House]( By [Jennifer Egan]( * Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Selected as One of Barack Obama’s Summer 2022 Reading List Picks! From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an "inventive, effervescent" (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection. 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[LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [Fairy Tale]( [LEARN MORE]( [Fairy Tale]( By [Stephen King]( * A New York Times Bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist! Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for that world or ours. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [It Starts with Us]( [LEARN MORE]( [It Starts with Us]( By [Colleen Hoover]( * Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas's side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the "glorious and touching" (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [The It Girl]( [LEARN MORE]( [The It Girl]( By [Ruth Ware]( * Instant New York Times Bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the "claustrophobic spine-tingler" (People) One by One returns with an unputdownable mystery following a woman on the search for answers a decade after her friend's murder. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [The School for Good Mothers]( [LEARN MORE]( [The School for Good Mothers]( By [Jessamine Chan]( * Longlisted for the 2023 Carnegie Medal for Excellence Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction 2022 First Novel Prize Selected as One of Barack Obama's Summer 2022 Reading List Picks! In this New York Times bestseller and Today show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick, one lapse in judgement lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance, in this "surreal" (People), "remarkable" (Vogue), and "infuriatingly timely" (The New York Times Book Review) debut novel. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [SEE ALL FICTION]( NONFICTION [I'm Glad My Mom Died]( [LEARN MORE]( [I’m Glad My Mom Died]( By [Jennette McCurdy]( * #1 New York Times Bestseller #1 International Bestseller 2022 Goodreads Choice Award Winner A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook control of her life. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [The Song of the Cell]( [LEARN MORE]( [The Song of the Cell]( By [Siddhartha Mukherjee]( * From the author of The Emperor of All Maladies, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and The Gene, a #1 New York Times bestseller, comes his most spectacular book yet, an exploration of medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. Rich with Mukherjee's revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors, and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, The Song of the Cell is the third book in this extraordinary writer's exploration of what it means to be human. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [Easy Beauty]( [LEARN MORE]( [Easy Beauty]( By [Chloé Cooper Jones]( * A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 A Washington Post, Time, Publishers Weekly, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an "exquisite" (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [Butts]( [LEARN MORE]( [Butts]( By [Heather Radke]( * One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall: Esquire, Time, LitHub, The Every Girl, BookPage "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction—the kind that forces you to see something ordinary through completely new eyes." —Esquire, Best Books of 2022 So Far [LEARN MORE]( [Amazon]( [BN]( [BAM]( [Bookshop]( [iBooks]( [Google Play]( [Kobo]( [Audiobooks.com]( [Audible]( [SEE ALL NONFICTION]( AUDIOBOOKS [The Trump Tapes]( [The Babysitter Lives]( [Kiss & Tell]( [SEE ALL AUDIOBOOKS]( TEEN [Ain't Burned All the Bright]( [Foul Lady Fortune]( [Bloodmarked]( [Gleanings]( [SEE ALL TEEN]( KIDS [Noodle and the No Bones Day]( [Creepy Crayon!]( [Stella Keeps the Sun Up]( [Skandar and the Unicorn Thief]( [Stellarlune]( [SEE ALL KIDS]( [See All: Best Books of 2022]( [See All: Best Books of 2022]( [You might like this]( [Powered by LiveIntent]( [Ad Choices]( Want more book recommendations? 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