LJ Best of 2022

A hearty congratulations to Library Journal‘s Best Books of 2022!

Best Crime Fiction

A WORLD OF CURIOSITIES by Louise Penny
LAVENDER HOUSE by Lev A.C. Rosen
LAST CALL AT THE NIGHTINGALE by Katharine Schellman

Best Horror

MANHUNT by Gretchen Felker-Martin
WHAT MOVES THE DEAD by T. Kingfisher
WHITE HORSE by Erika T. Wurth

Best Literary Fiction

IF AN EGYPTIAN CANNOT SPEAK ENGLISH by Noor Naga

Best Pop Fiction

ELSEWHERE by Alexis Schaitkin
FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY by Jenny Tinghui Zhang

Best SF/Fantasy

A PRAYER FOR THE CROWN-SHY by Becky Chambers
THE BOOK EATERS by Sunyi Dean
THE SPARE MAN by Mary Robinette Kowal

Best Short Stories

IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery
BLISS MONTAGE: Stories by Ling Ma
LEARNING TO TALK: Stories by Hilary Mantel

Best Graphic Novels

DUCKS: Two Years in the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton
BIRDS OF MAINE by Michael DeForge
TALK TO MY BACK by Yamada Murasaki

Best Arts & Humanities

SHY: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rogers by Mary Rogers and Jesse Green

Best Science & Technology

THE LAST DAYS OF THE DINOSAURS: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black

Best Poetry

CAIN NAMED THE ANIMAL: Poems by Shane McCrae
THE RUPTURE TENSE: Poems by Jenny Xie