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Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2022

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713nervy
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It's a diverse list. Have you read any? Will you?

If you click the link then you can see the book covers that are hyperlinked to summaries, in case that interests you.

ETA: Of course, you can only access the link so many times before you hit a pay wall - heads up to that.

https://time.com/collection/must-read-books-2022/

  • A Heart that Works by Rob Delaney
  • Afterlives by by Abdulrazak Gurnah
  • All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
  • All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews
  • An Immense World by Ed Yong
  • Ancestor Trouble by Maud Newton
  • Animal Joy by Nuar Alsadir
  • Anna: The Biography by Amy Odell
  • Babel by R.F. Kuang
  • Bitter Orange Tree by Jokha Alharthi
  • The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
  • Breathless by David Quammen
  • Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
  • Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah
  • The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
  • Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Chef's Kiss by TJ Alexander
  • Civil Rights Queen by Tomiko Brown-Nagin
  • Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson
  • Cover Story by Susan Rigetti
  • The Crane Wife by CJ Hauser
  • The Daughter of Doctor Moreau by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
  • Dinosaurs by Lydia Millet
  • Dirtbag, Massachusetts by Isaac Fitzgerald
  • Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
  • Easy Beauty by Chlo Cooper Jones
  • Eating to Extinction by Dan Saladino
  • Either/Or by Elif Batuman
  • The Emergency by Thomas Fisher
  • The Employees by Olga Ravn
  • The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland
  • Everything I Need I Get from You by Kaitlyn Tiffany
  • The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman
  • The Family Outing by Jessi Hempel
  • Fellowship Point by Alice Elliott Dark
  • Finding Me by Viola Davis
  • Fiona and Jane by Jean Chen Ho
  • The Furrows by Namwali Serpel
  • Getting Lost by Annie Ernaux
  • Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
  • Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi
  • Half American by Matthew F. Delmont
  • The Hero of This Book by Elizabeth McCracken
  • His Name Is George Floyd by Robert Samuels and Toluse Olorunnipa
  • Honey & Spice by Bolu Babalola
  • How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
  • The Hurting Kind by Ada Limn
  • I Came All This Way to Meet You by Jami Attenberg
  • I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
  • If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
  • If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery
  • In Love by Amy Bloom
  • Index, A History of the by Dennis Duncan
  • The Invisible Kingdom by Meghan O'Rourke
  • Learning to Talk by Hilary Mantel
  • Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
  • Liberation Day by George Saunders
  • Life Between the Tides by Adam Nicolson
  • The Light We Carry by Michelle Obama
  • Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz
  • Lucy by the Sea by Elizabeth Strout
  • The Man Who Could Move Clouds by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
  • Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo
  • Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
  • The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
  • The Method by Isaac Butler
  • Mouth to Mouth by Antoine Wilson
  • The Naked Don't Fear the Water by Matthieu Aikins
  • Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
  • Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley
  • Now Is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson
  • Nuclear Family by Joseph Han
  • Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
  • Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
  • The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
  • The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
  • Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
  • The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
  • Scoundrel by Sarah Weinman
  • Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
  • Signal Fires by Dani Shapiro
  • Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
  • South to America by Imani Perry
  • Stay True by Hua Hsu
  • Still Life by Jay Hopler
  • Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv
  • Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell
  • This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub
  • Tides by Sara Freeman
  • Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
  • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
  • The Trayvon Generation by Elizabeth Alexander
  • Trust by Hernan Diaz
  • Under the Skin by Linda Villarosa
  • Upgrade by Blake Crouch
  • Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
  • When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar
  • Woman Without Shame by Sandra Cisneros
  • The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi
  • Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
bluefire579
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The only one that stood out to me is Babel. I'm only part of the way through The Poppy War, but if it continues being as good as it's been so far, I'll read anything from her.
Jinx
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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow & The Man Who Could Move Clouds are both books I've looked at and had an interest in.

Friend of mine read Ducks and had good things to say.
nai06
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Probably 95% of the books I read are YA so I haven't read pretty much anything on this list.
Eliminatus
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bluefire579 said:

The only one that stood out to me is Babel. I'm only part of the way through The Poppy War, but if it continues being as good as it's been so far, I'll read anything from her.


Ha. Exact same. Just got in book three, The Burning God. We shall see but so far her writing has been great. Whenever I am feeling terrible, I remember her main character. Whatever the opposite of a Mary Sue is, she is it.
713nervy
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I've read I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. It was incredible and does an amazing job of demonstrating that abuse isn't limited to sexual or physical.
AgRyan04
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Lonesome Dove should be on everyone's list for every year!
nai06
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I've heard it's really good and have been meant to add it to my list. One of my friends just opened a bookstore and they keep selling out
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713nervy said:

I've read I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. It was incredible and does an amazing job of demonstrating that abuse isn't limited to sexual or physical.
Yeah it's great, and I like that she chose not to use a ghostwriter. Some of it is rough because of that, but it's much more genuine and unpolished.
A is A
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nvm - Thought this was an All Time List
AustinAg2K
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Jinx said:

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow & The Man Who Could Move Clouds are both books I've looked at and had an interest in.

Friend of mine read Ducks and had good things to say.


I'm currently reading, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow." It's still early, but I'm enjoying it so far.
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