{"id":531154,"date":"2022-12-25T01:29:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-best-books-of-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-25T01:29:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T22:29:27","slug":"the-best-books-of-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Best Books of 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be76537cd7\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be76537cd7\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#The_Best_Books_of_2022\" >The Best Books of 2022<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#1_Sea_of_Tranquility_by_Emily_St_John_Mandel\" >1. Sea of Tranquility, by Emily St. John Mandel<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#2_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_by_Gabrielle_Zevin\" >2. Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#3_The_Candy_House_by_Jennifer_Egan\" >3. The Candy House, by Jennifer Egan<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#4_All_This_Could_Be_Different_by_Sarah_Thankam_Matthews\" >4. All This Could Be Different, by Sarah Thankam Matthews<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#5_EitherOr_by_Elif_Batuman\" >5. Either\/Or, by Elif Batuman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#6_Stay_True_by_Hua_Hsu\" >6. Stay True, by Hua Hsu<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#7_To_Paradise_by_Hanya_Yanagihara\" >7. To Paradise, by Hanya Yanagihara<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#8_Acts_of_Service_by_Lillian_Fishman\" >8. Acts of Service, by Lillian Fishman<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-10\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#9_Vladimir_by_Julia_May_Jones\" >9. Vladimir, by Julia May Jones<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-11\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#10_Ghost_Lover_by_Lisa_Taddeo\" >10. Ghost Lover, by Lisa Taddeo<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-12\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-best-books-of-2022\/#Honorable_Mentions\" >Honorable Mentions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Best_Books_of_2022\"><\/span>The Best Books of 2022<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    After several lavish years, in which the bounty of big-name books became almost impossible to keep up with, publishing is finally catching up with itself. 2022 was arguably slower, and quieter, than its recent predecessors \u2014\u00a0there was no Sally Rooney to adorn tote bags all over Brooklyn, no Jonathan Franzen dominating the discourse. Instead of fighting over which blockbusters deserved their place at the very top, there was time and space for titles of all sorts to find a reading audience. Likely, no two \u201cbest of\u201d lists will look alike this year, which means the glitch in the system may finally be repairing itself; the algorithm is weakening. Here, <em>THR <\/em>chooses its top 10 titles and a host of additional works we hope you\u2019ll pick up. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_Sea_of_Tranquility_by_Emily_St_John_Mandel\"><\/span>1. <em>Sea of Tranquility, <\/em>by Emily St. John Mandel<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Emily St. John Mandel is so good at world-building that she can do in a slim volume what most authors would need \u2014 or take, unnecessarily\u00a0\u2014\u00a0a doorstopper to achieve. She continues the legacy of soulful <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> fiction, that she began with <em>Station Eleven <\/em>and perfected in <em>The Glass Hotel,<\/em> with this sister (cousin?) novel that spans centuries and worlds: It opens in the 1800s on a small island in Canada, and follows a group of interconnected characters all the way to a futuristic moon colony, as they all experience the fallout of the same, seemingly unexplainable, space-time phenomenon. All the while she performs her particular Mandelian trick of the pen: While you think you\u2019re solving a mystery, you wind up considering the very meaning of our place on this planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_and_Tomorrow_by_Gabrielle_Zevin\"><\/span>2. <em>Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, <\/em>by Gabrielle Zevin<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>Tomorrow\u2019s <\/em>plot synopsis threatens to betray itself \u2014 the book, which spurred a tense multi-house auction for publication rights and an even bigger fight for the adaptation rights, is about two childhood friends who reconnect in college and design a video <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> together, going on to become rich and famous. Niche? Perhaps. But let it be known that this book is for absolutely everybody. The plot device is just that: a way to root out the existential questions that plague every important friendship. How do we care for each other, how do we balance a desire to have everything with our basic need for just a few things, is anything in life more important than coming back to the people we love? No one who picks up this book will regret it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_The_Candy_House_by_Jennifer_Egan\"><\/span>3. <em>The Candy House, <\/em>by Jennifer Egan<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    <em>A Visit From the Goon Squad<\/em>, the 2010 predecessor to <em>Candy House<\/em>, was one of the best \u2014 if not <em>the<\/em> best \u2014\u00a0novels of the previous decade, bringing a razor-sharp and fresh twist to the occasionally overplayed multi-narrator storytelling device. Skepticism would be a healthy reaction to a sister novel, but Egan\u2019s latest is a beautiful reminder that the literary world has not fallen prey to Hollywood\u2019s existing-IP creative drought. <em>Candy House<\/em>, which resurrects a few key characters and places them in a near-future where the latest tech innovation involves uploading your subconscious onto a public server, is as delightfully weird, eerily prescient, and thought-provoking as one could hope.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_All_This_Could_Be_Different_by_Sarah_Thankam_Matthews\"><\/span>4. <em>All This Could Be Different, <\/em>by Sarah Thankam Matthews<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A debut novel with the same depth and delicacy of the most experienced authors, <em>All This Could Be Different <\/em>captures that very particular millennial ennui: its protagonist, graduating college into a drought-filled job market and a political system that leaves her behind, is suffering the side effects of capitalism before readers\u2019 very eyes. But, in a particularly skillful literary trick, this book of misery is anything but miserable to read. Matthews gives us the story of a young woman who makes bad decisions but is never bad; and a stark reminder that we\u2019re all just trying to get by.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_EitherOr_by_Elif_Batuman\"><\/span>5. <em>Either\/Or, <\/em>by Elif Batuman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Batuman\u2019s heroine, previously seen in 2017\u2019s <em>The Idiot<\/em>, is an aspiring fl\u00e2neuse momentarily held captive by her circumstances not unlike the literary cousin of <em>The White Lotus<\/em>\u2019 Portia (trade a disastrous work <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> to Taormina for sophomore year at Harvard). The novel, which uses Selin\u2019s college reading list, and her reactions wherein, to catalog her search for meaning in a world that feels out of her reach, is delightfully analog in nature. It\u2019s full of meandering discourse and big questions, both a challenge to our page-turning, commercial thriller literary culture and a reassurance that you always have more answers than you did the day before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"6_Stay_True_by_Hua_Hsu\"><\/span>6. <em>Stay True, <\/em>by Hua Hsu<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The tragic loss of the author\u2019s college best friend serves as the centerpiece to this memoir that\u2019s both heartbreaking eulogy and poignant coming-of-age storytelling.\u00a0Hsu, a star staff writer at <em>The New Yorker<\/em>, transports his readers to 1990s San Francisco, a time of grunge bands and youthful longing, and his words about his late friend will remind everybody of what we all used to have. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"7_To_Paradise_by_Hanya_Yanagihara\"><\/span>7. <em>To Paradise, <\/em>by Hanya Yanagihara<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The <em>A Little Life <\/em>author\u2019s long-awaited follow-up trades gut-wrenching interpersonal heartbreak for more existential crises \u2014 the three-part book traces the climate change and pandemic-driven downfall of society as we know it \u2014 yet within those big topics lie intimate character studies written with the utmost care.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"8_Acts_of_Service_by_Lillian_Fishman\"><\/span>8. <em>Acts of Service, <\/em>by Lillian Fishman<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    This titillating debut novel, about a young Brooklynite who stumbles into a poly relationship, takes everything you thought you knew about sexual politics and power and turns it on its head \u2014 it\u2019s Sally Rooney, with an axe to grind over heteronormativity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"9_Vladimir_by_Julia_May_Jones\"><\/span>9. <em>Vladimir, <\/em>by Julia May Jones<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    A campus professor finds her internalized misogyny put to the test when her husband \u2014 who is something of a university celebrity \u2014 gets caught in the crosshairs of the Me Too movement. To cope, she begins to obsess over a newly arrived colleague, and what starts as a meditation on power and sexual politics goes deliciously off the trails with a third-act turn no reader could predict.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"10_Ghost_Lover_by_Lisa_Taddeo\"><\/span>10. <em>Ghost Lover, <\/em>by Lisa Taddeo<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Lisa Taddeo, of <em>Three Women <\/em>fame, brings more of femininity\u2019s complexity to center stage in this collection of short stories about women behaving badly.\u00a0She explores desire, but this time her protagonists don\u2019t long for sexual connection so much as they do a reclamation of control, in whichever ways they can get it. <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading larva \/\/   lrv-a-font-accent-l   \"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Honorable_Mentions\"><\/span>Honorable Mentions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The best book to read before Oscar season: <em>Run Towards the Danger<\/em>, by Sarah Polley<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The most promising future literary star: Leila Mottley (<em>Nightcrawling<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The bravest celebrity memoir: <em>I\u2019m Glad My Mom Died, <\/em>by Jeannette McCurdy<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The best in-book vibe shift: <em>Trust, <\/em>by Hernan Diaz<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The novel that should have been a huge book club hit: <em>Like a House on Fire<\/em>, by Lauren McBrayer<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The most beautifully weird read of the year: <em>Bliss Montage, <\/em>by Ling Ma<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Book we wish the Kardashians would read: <em>Aesthetica<\/em>, by Allie Rowbottom<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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