Globe and mail best books 2022

The Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2022 list is a curated selection of the best books published in 2022, as chosen by the newspaper's book reviewers and critics. Here are some of the notable books that made the list:

Fiction

  1. "The Prophets" by Robert Jones Jr. (a debut novel about two enslaved men who fall in love on a plantation in the antebellum South)
  2. "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" by Taylor Jenkins Reid (a novel about the life of a reclusive Hollywood star and her seven marriages)
  3. "The Last House Guest" by Megan Miranda (a thriller about a woman who becomes embroiled in a mystery after a weekend getaway)
  4. "The Maid" by Nita Prose (a novel about a quiet, observant maid who becomes embroiled in a mystery at a luxury hotel)
  5. "The School for Good Mothers" by Jessamine Chan (a dystopian novel about a mother who is sent to a rehabilitation program for her parenting style)

Non-Fiction

  1. "The Warmth of Other Suns" by Isabel Wilkerson (a non-fiction book about the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North and West between 1915 and 1960)
  2. "The Undocumented Americans" by Karla Cornejo Villavicencio (a non-fiction book about the lives of undocumented immigrants in the United States)
  3. "The End of October" by Lawrence Wright (a non-fiction book about the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the world)
  4. "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann (a non-fiction book about British explorer Percy Fawcett and his expeditions into the Amazon)
  5. "The Sixth Extinction" by Elizabeth Kolbert (a non-fiction book about the current mass extinction event caused by human activity)

Poetry

  1. "The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop" edited by Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall (an anthology of poetry that explores the intersection of hip-hop and poetry)
  2. "The Tradition" by Jericho Brown (a poetry collection that explores themes of identity, race, and sexuality)
  3. "The Break" by Kaveh Akbar (a poetry collection that explores themes of identity, faith, and family)
  4. "The End of the World is a Cul-de-Sac" by Heather Christle (a poetry collection that explores themes of family, love, and mortality)
  5. "The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes" edited by Arnold Rampersad (a collection of poems by the celebrated American poet Langston Hughes)

Children's Books

  1. "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera (a middle-grade novel about a young girl who is sent to live with her abuela in a small town in Mexico)
  2. "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez (a middle-grade novel about a young girl who discovers her love of punk rock and her own identity)
  3. "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson (a middle-grade novel about a young girl who discovers a mysterious letter and a hidden treasure)
  4. "The Last Thing He Told Me" by Laura Dave (a novel about a woman who discovers that her husband has left her and their daughter behind, with only a cryptic message to guide her)
  5. "The Last House Guest" by Megan Miranda (a thriller about a woman who becomes embroiled in a mystery after a weekend getaway)

Please note that this is not an exhaustive list, and there may be other notable books that were not included in the Globe and Mail's Best Books of 2022 list.