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Beginning successful October, present astatine Book Riot we’ve been watching arsenic a slew of Best Books of the Year lists came rolling successful from publications ranging from The New York Times to Buzzfeed. This was a large twelvemonth for books, but it’s absorbing to spot conscionable however small overlap determination is betwixt these lists.
To trial that hypothesis, I compiled each publication connected 10 of the notable “Best Books of the Year” lists: from Amazon, The Atlantic, Barnes & Noble, Barnes & Noble Booksellers (yes, those are 2 antithetic lists), Book Riot (naturally), Buzzfeed, the New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, and the Washington Post.
I was looking for wide champion of lists, not genre lists, and I was besides looking for lists that were astir 10 books agelong — nary cheating with a “100 notable books” list. After that, I tallied each publication mentioned connected each 10 to spot which showed up connected aggregate lists. As expected, the immense bulk were mentioned lone once. About 1 successful 5 titles showed up 2 lists, and lone 8 made 3 oregon much champion of lists.
It’s absorbing to spot the kinds of books highlighted by publications similar the Atlantic versus the Barnes & Noble Booksellers’ picks, for example, but by looking astatine the overlap betwixt them, we tin get a consciousness of the large books of the year.
Here are the champion of the champion books of 2022, according to each the lists. And if you privation to instrumentality a look astatine each 100+ books mentioned connected immoderate of these lists, I’ve near that arsenic a bonus astatine the bottommost of the post.
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Books connected Four “Best Of” Lists:
Babel by R.F. Kuang (Barnes & Noble, Booksellers, Book Riot, Buzzfeed): This rubric got Barnes & Noble’s inaugural Speculative Fiction Book Award, fundamentally tying for archetypal spot for its champion publication of the year.
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Amazon, Atlantic, Booksellers, Buzzfeed): This publication got a ton of buzz this year, and Amazon’s editors named it their champion publication of the twelvemonth overall.
Book connected Three “Best Of” Lists:
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Amazon, The New York Times, The Washington Post)
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell (The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Vulture)
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage (The Atlantic, Publishers Weekly, The Washington Post)
An Immense World by Ed Yong (Booksellers, The New York Times, Publishers Weekly)
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vulture)
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu (Atlantic, The New York Times, the Washington Post)
Book connected Two “Best Of” Lists:
Those are each of the books mentioned connected aggregate lists, but if you’re funny successful each publication mentioned connected immoderate list, present they are, alphabetical by title.
The initialisms utilized are B&N: Barnes & Noble, NYT: the New York Times, PW: Publishers Weekly, and WP: the Washington Post.
All Books On All Lists:
2 A.M. successful Little America by Ken Kalfus (Vulture)
Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen (PW)
Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah (WP)
All the Lovers successful the Night by Mieko Kawakami, translated by Sam Bett and David Boyd (PW)
Apollo Remastered: The Ultimate Photographic Record by Andy Saunders (Booksellers)
All This Could Be Different by Sarah Thankam Mathews (Buzzfeed, Vulture)
Ask the Brindled by No‘u Revilla (Book Riot)
Babel by R.F. Kuang (B&N, Booksellers, Book Riot, Buzzfeed)
Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty (Book Riot)
The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones (PW)
Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson (Book Riot)
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan (Book Riot)
The Book Eaters by Sunyi Dean (Book Riot)
Book Lovers by Emily Henry (Book Riot)
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li (Buzzfeed)
The Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk (Atlantic)
The Boy With a Bird successful His Chest by Emme Lund (Buzzfeed)
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan (NYT)
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins-Reid (Amazon)
The Cartographers by Peng Shepherd (Book Riot)
Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett (NYT)
City connected Fire by Don Winslow (Amazon)
The Consequences by Manuel Muñoz (Atlantic)
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson (Buzzfeed, WP)
Crying successful the Bathroom by Erika L. Sánchez (Buzzfeed)
Cult Classic by Sloane Crosley (Book Riot)
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver (Amazon, NYT, WP)
Desert Creatures by Kay Chronister (Book Riot)
Ducks: Two Years successful the Oil Sands by Kate Beaton (Buzzfeed, PW)
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones (Buzzfeed, Vulture)
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freeland (Amazon)
Fairy Tale by Stephen King (Amazon)
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor by Kim Kelly (Buzzfeed)
Finale: Late Conversations With Stephen Sondheim by D.T. Max (Buzzfeed)
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell (NYT, PW, Vulture)
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Book Riot)
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage (Atlantic, PW, WP)
Green Lantern: Alliance by Minh Lê and Andie Tong (Book Riot)
The Grimkes: The Legacy of Slavery successful an American Family by Kerri K. Greenidge (PW)
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas (Book Riot, Buzzfeed)
The Haunting of Hajji Hotak and Other Stories by Jamil Jan Kochai (Atlantic)
A Heart That Works by Rob Delaney (Buzzfeed)
Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson (Book Riot)
High-Risk Homosexual by Edgar Gomez (Buzzfeed)
Horse by Geraldine Brooks (Amazon)
How Not to Drown successful a Glass of Water by Angie Cruz (Book Riot)
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace (Book Riot)
Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History by Vikki Tobak (Booksellers)
If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga (Buzzfeed)
If I Survive You: Stories by Jonathan Escoffery (Buzzfeed)
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy (B&N)
An Immense World by Ed Yong (Booksellers, NYT, PW)
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke (Book Riot, PW)
It Won’t Always Be Like This by Malaka Gharib (Book Riot)
Lavender House by Lev A.C. Rosen (Buzzfeed)
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu (Book Riot)
Lessons successful Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus (B&N, Booksellers)
The Light We Carry: Overcoming successful Uncertain Times by Michelle Obama (B&N)
Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-Martin (Vulture)
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell (Booksellers)
Mecca by Susan Straight (WP)
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner (Buzzfeed)
A Novel Obsession by Caitlin Barasch (Buzzfeed)
The Other Mother by Rachel M. Harper (Book Riot)
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley (Atlantic)
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng (Amazon, B&N)
The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki (WP)
Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre (B&N)
The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty (B&N, PW)
Reader, I Murdered Him by Betsy Cornwell (Book Riot)
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey (Book Riot)
Search by Michelle Huneven (Book Riot)
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks (Vulture)
Siren Queen by Nghi Vo (Book Riot, Buzzfeed, Vulture)
Skandar and the Unicorn Thief by A.F. Steadman (B&N, Booksellers)
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora (Amazon)
Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee (B&N)
Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny successful the 21st Century by Daniel Treisman and Sergei Guriev (Atlantic)
Stay True: A Memoir by Hua Hsu (Atlantic, NYT, WP)
Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention and How to Think Deeply Again by Johann Hari (Amazon)
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us by Rachel Aviv (NYT, Vulture)
Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (Book Riot)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen (Booksellers)
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (Amazon, Atlantic, Booksellers, Buzzfeed)
Trust by Hernan Diaz (NYT, WP)
Turkey and the Wolf: Flavor Trippin’ successful New Orleans by Mason Hereford with JJ Goode (Booksellers)
Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism connected American Lives and connected the Health of Our Nation by Linda Villarosa (Atlantic, NYT)
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy by Megan Bannen (Book Riot)
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett (Book Riot)
The Violin Conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb (Buzzfeed)
Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper (WP)
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland by Fintan O’Toole (Atlantic, NYT)
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson (Book Riot)
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher (Booksellers)
When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill (Book Riot, Buzzfeed)
When You Call My Name by Tucker Shaw (Book Riot)
The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi (Vulture)
World of Curiosities by Louise Penny (B&N)
X by Davey Davis (Vulture)
Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn (Buzzfeed)
You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi (Buzzfeed)
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart (WP)
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