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With so many novels to choose from, it’s not easy to find the best fiction of 2022, books that are really worth spending your time reading. To help, we’ve collected all our books recommendations relating to the best fiction of 2022 here.

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BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST

• Read1Glory: A Novel
  by NoViolet Bulawayo
• Read2The Trees
  by Percival Everett
• Read3Treacle Walker
  by Alan Garner
• Read4The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
  by Shehan Karunatilaka
• Read5Small Things Like These
  by Claire Keegan
• Read6Oh William!
  by Elizabeth Strout

BEST HISTORICAL FICTION: THE 2022 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE

• Read1Rose Nicolson: A Novel
  by Andrew Greig
• Read2News of the Dead
  by James Robertson
• Read3Fortune
  by Amanda Smyth
• Read4The Magician
  by Colm Tóibín

BEST SCIENCE FICTION: THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD

• Read1Deep Wheel Orcadia: A Novel
  by Harry Josephine Giles
• Read2Klara and the Sun: A Novel
  by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Read3A Desolation Called Peace
  by Arkady Martine
• Read4A River Called Time
  by Courttia Newland
• Read5Wergen: The Alien Love War
  by Mercurio D Rivera
• Read6Skyward Inn
  by Aliya Whiteley

BEST THRILLERS OF 2022: recommended by Tosca Lee

• Read1Razorblade Tears
  by S.A. Cosby
• Read2The Turnout
  by Megan Abbott
• Read3Rock, Paper, Scissors
  by Alice Feeney
• Read4These Toxic Things: A Thriller
  by Rachel Howzell Hall
• Read5Red Widow
  by Alma Katsu
• Read6I Am Not Who You Think I Am: A Novel
  by Eric Rickstad

BEST ROMANCE BOOKS OF 2022: recommended by Katherine D. Morgan

• Read1The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
  by Megan Bannen
• Read2Vanessa Jared’s Got a Man
  by LaQuette
• Read3Delilah Green Doesn’t Care
  by Ashley Herring Blake
• Read4Do You Take This Man
  by Denise Williams
• Read5Digging Up Love
  by Chandra Blumberg

BEST OF WORLD LITERATURE: THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST

• Read1Tomb of Sand
  by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell
• Read2Cursed Bunny
  by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur
• Read3A New Name: Septology VI-VII
  by Jon Fosse, translated by Damion Searls
• Read4Heaven
  by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd
• Read5The Books of Jacob: A Novel
  by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
• Read6Elena Knows
  by Claudia Piñeiro, translated by Frances Riddle

NOTABLE NEW NOVELS OF 2022: recommended by Cal Flyn

• Read1The Passenger
  by Cormac McCarthy
• Read2The Marriage Portrait: A Novel
  by Maggie O’Farrell
• Read3Liberation Day: Stories
  by George Saunders
• Read4Our Share of Night: A Novel
  by Mariana Enriquez
• Read5The Furrows: An Elegy
  by Namwali Serpell

NOTABLE NOVELS OF SUMMER 2022: recommended by Cal Flyn

• Read1Lapvona
  by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Read2Either/Or
  by Elif Batuman
• Read3The Last White Man: A Novel
  by Mohsin Hamid
• Read4Yoga
  by Emmanuel Carrère
• Read5Afterlives
  by Abdulrazak Gurnah

NOTABLE NOVELS OF SPRING 2022: recommended by Cal Flyn

• Read1To Paradise
  by Hanya Yanagihara
• Read2Pure Colour: A Novel
  by Sheila Heti
• Read3Young Mungo
  by Douglas Stuart
• Read4The Books of Jacob: A Novel
  by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft
• Read5Our Wives Under the Sea
  by Julia Armfield

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