A Year of Reading: 2022

1. Blueberries: Essays Concerning Understanding by Ellena Savage (essays, 2020)

2. Abandon Me by Melissa Febos (memoir, 2017)

3. Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism by Amelia Horgan (nonfiction, 2021)

4. Up the Junction by Nell Dunn (short stories, 1963)

5. The Best American Food Writing: 2021 edited by Gabrielle Hamilton (essays, 2021)

6. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (fiction, 2020)

7. Asylum Road by Olivia Sudjic (fiction, 2021)

8. The Service by Frankie Miren (fiction, 2021)

9. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (fiction, 2022)

10. Know My Name by Chanel Miller (memoir, 2019)

11. Packing My Library by Alberto Manguel (nonfiction, 2017)

12. Lost and Found by Kathryn Schulz (memoir, 2022)

13. In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing by Elena Ferrante (essays in translation from Italian, 2021)

14. The Instant by Amy Liptrot (memoir, 2022)

15. A Sunday in Ville-d’Array by Dominique Barbéris (fiction in translation from French, 2019)

16. Out of the Sun: Essays at the Crossroads of Race by Esi Edugyan (essays, 2022)

17. They by Kay Dick (fiction, 1977)

18. Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos (essays, 2022)

19. The Naked Don’t Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins (nonfiction, 2022)

20. Send Nudes by Saba Sams (short stories, 2022)

21. Careering by Daisy Buchanan (fiction, 2022)

22. Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (fiction, 2022)

23. Late Capitalist Fascism by Mikkel Bolt Rasumussen (nonfiction, 2021)

24. Personal Pleasures by Rose Macaulay (essays, 1936)

25. Mona by Pola Oloixarac (fiction, 2021)

26. Vladimir by Julia May Jonas (fiction, 2022)

27. A Life’s Work: On Becoming a Mother by Rachel Cusk (memoir, 2001)

28. The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis (fiction in translation from French, 2014)

29. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer (fiction, 2022)

30. Acts of Service by Lillian Fishman (fiction, 2022)

31. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (fiction, 2018)

32. Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl (memoir, 2005)

33. All the Lovers in the Night by Meiko Kawakami (fiction in translation from Japanese, 2011)

34. Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel (fiction, 2022)

35. Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation by Rachel Cusk (memoir, 2012)

36. Outline by Rachel Cusk (fiction, 2014)

37. Incidental Inventions by Elena Ferrante (essays in translation from Italian, 2022)

38. Ghost Lover by Lisa Taddeo (short stories, 2022)

39. Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson (fiction, 2019)

40. What a Library Means to a Woman: Edith Wharton and the Will to Collect Books by Sheila Liming (nonfiction, 2020)

41. Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson (memoir, 2022)

42. A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (nonfiction, 1988)

43. Still Born by Guadalupe Nettel (fiction in translation from Spanish, 2022)

44. Second Place by Rachel Cusk (fiction, 2022)

45. After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood by Emma Jane Unsworth (memoir, 2021)

46. Knocking Myself Up: A Memoir of My (In)Fertility by Michelle Tea (memoir, 2021)

47. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy by Angela Garbes (reread, nonfiction, 2018)

48. On Not Knowing by Emily Ogden (nonfiction, 2022)

49. A Horse at Night: On Writing by Amina Cain (nonfiction, 2022)

50. Long Live the Post Horn! by Vigdis Horth (fiction in translation from Norwegian, 2012)

51. Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen by Rebecca May Johnson (memoir, 2022)

52. Tenants: The People on the Frontline of Britain’s Housing Crisis by Vicky Spratt (nonfiction, 2022)