1.
Elizabeth Finch (Jonathan Cape, 2022) /
Julian Barnes2. Seven Steeples (Tramp Press/Mariner Books, 2022) / Sara Baume
3. A Tidy Ending (The Borough Press, 2022) / Joanna Cannon
4. Scary Monsters (Catapult, 2022) / Michelle de Kretser
5. The Red Children (Telegram Books, 2022) / Maggie Gee
6. Emergency (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2022) / Daisy Hildyard
7. The Chosen (Riverrun, 2022) / Elizabeth Lowry
8. Beautiful Star (trans. from the Japanese by Stephen Dodd) (Penguin Classics, 2022) / Yukio Mishima
9. Life Sentences (Godine, 2022) / Billy O’Callaghan
10. At the Edge of the Woods (trans. from the Japanese by Juliet Winters Carpenter) (Two Lines Press, 2022) / Masatsugu Ono
11. Take My Hand (Berkley, 2022) / Dolen Perkins-Valdez
12. Violets (trans. from the Korean by Anton Hur) (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2022) / Kyung-Sook Shin
13. Tomb of Sand (trans. from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell) (Penguin India, 2022) / Geetanjali Shree
14. Companion Piece (Hamish Hamilton, 2022) / Ali Smith
15. Sea of Tranquility (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) / Emily St John Mandel
16.
One Day I Shall Astonish the World (Viking, 2022) /
Nina Stibbe17. Young Mungo (Picador/Grove Atlantic, 2022) / Douglas Stuart
18. I Was the President’s Mistress!! (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Miguel Syjuco
19. Aftermath (And Other Stories, 2022) / Preti Tanja
20. Fight Night (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Miriam Toews
1. The Return of Faraz Ali (Riverhead Books, 2022) / Aamina Ahmad
2. Lessons In Chemistry (Doubleday, 2022) / Bonnie Garmus
3. Trespasses (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022) / Louise Kennedy
4. Very Cold People (Picador, 2022) / Sarah Manguso
5. The Coward (Canongate, 2022) / Jarred McGinnis
6. Things They Lost (Oneworld, 2022) / Okwiri Oduor
7. A Mirror Made of Rain (The Unnamed Press, 2022) / Naheed Phiroze Patel
8. When We Fell Apart (Dutton, 2022) / Soon Wiley
9. Memphis (The Dial Press/John Murray, 2022) / Tara M. Stringfellow
10. Four Treasures of the Sky (Flatiron Books, 2022) / Jenny Tinghui Zhang
1. People from Bloomington (trans. from the Indonesian by Tiffany Tsao) (Penguin Classics, 2022) / Budi Darma
2. The Trouble with Happiness and Other Stories (trans. from the Danish by Michael Favala Goldman) (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022) / Tove Ditlevsen
3. We Move (Serpent’s Tail, 2022) / Gurnail Johal
4. Interesting Women (Random House, 2022) / Andrea Lee
5. The Partition (Akashic Books, 2022) / Don Lee
6. Nobody Gets Out Alive (Scribner, 2022) / Leigh Newman
POETRY1. Other People’s Lives (New Island Books, 2022) / Dermot Bolger
2. Orlam (Picador, 2022) / PJ Harvey
3. Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon Press, 2022) / Dana Levin
4. Music for the Dead and Resurrected (Bloomsbury Poetry, 2022) / Volzhyna Mort
5. Time Is a Mother (Penguin Press/Jonathan Cape, 2022) / Ocean Vuong
NONFICTION1. The Lives of the Saints: The Laureate Lectures (Faber & Faber, 2022) / Sebastian Barry
2. In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss (Granta Books, 2022) / Amy Bloom
3. On Agoraphobia (Picador, 2022) / Graham Caveney
4. Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / Richard Cohen
5. Akira Kurosawa and Modern Japan (McFarland, 2022) / David A. Conrad
6. The Fifties: An Underground History (Simon & Schuster, 2022) / James R. Gaines
7.
The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality (The Bodley Head, 2022) /
Oded Galor8. Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic Marvels, Evolution’s Creativity and the Crisis of Sensory Extinction (Faber & Faber, 2022) / David George Haskell
16. Circus of Dreams: Adventures in the 1980s Literary World (Constable, 2022) / John Walsh
17. About a Son: A Murder and a Father’s Search for Truth (Phoenix, 2022) / David Whitehouse