THE BEST READS OF 2022 – Books we read and loved, and books with great reviews this year!

 

Adult Fiction 

RAZORBLADE TEARS by S.A. Cosby    

A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES by Louise Penny 

OUR MISSING HEARTS by Celeste Ng 

MORE THAN YOU’LL EVER KNOW by Katie Gutierrez 

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY by Bonnie Garmus 

BLACK CLOUD RISING by David Wright Falade 

THE OTHER SIDE OF NIGHT by Adam Hamdy 

Adult Nonfiction 

THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN by Paul Newman 

THE NINETIES by Chuck Klosterman 

TELL ME EVERYTHING by Erika Krouse 

FATTY FATTY BOOM BOOM by Rabia Chaudry 

AND THERE WAS LIGHT by John Meacham 

Cookbooks 

WHAT’S FOR DESSERT by Claire Saffitz 

DINNER IN ONE by Melissa Clark 

MY AMERICA: RECIPES FROM A YOUNG BLACK CHEF by Kwame Onwuachi 

Juvenile Graphic Novels 

SCIENCE COMICS: BRIDGES, ENGINEERING MASTERPIECES by Dan Zettwoch 

BESTIES WORK IT OUT by Kayla Miller & Jeffrey Canino 

MY AUNT IS A MONSTER by Reimena Yee 

LITTLE MONARCHS by Jonathan Case 

Picture Books 

NOODLE AND THE NO BONES DAY by Jonathan Graziano 

RICK THE ROCK OF ROOM 214 by Julie Falatko 

THE BIG SLIDE by Daniel Kirk 

WALTER HAD A BEST FRIEND by Deborah Underwood 

DOES A BULLDOZER HAVE A BUTT by Derick Wilder 

GOODNIGHT RACISM by Ibram X. Kendi 

Juvenile Fiction 

THOSE KIDS FROM FAWN CREEK by Erin Entrada 

THE PEAR AFFAIR by Judith Eagle 

OH, SAL by Kevin Henkes 

CRESS WATERCRESS by Gregory Maquire 

THE SHEEP, THE ROOSTER AND THE DUCK by Matt Phelan 

WORSER by Jennifer Ziegler 

Early Readers 

I DID IT! by Michael Emberley 

GIGI AND OJIJI by Melissa Iwai 

REINA RAMOS WORKS IT OUT by Emma Otheguy 

Teen 

SCOUT’S HONOR by Lily Anderson 

THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF HOODIE ROSEN by Isaac Blum 

LAWLESS SPACES by Corey Ann Haydu 

BIG LIES by Mark Kurlansky