Staff Top Picks of 2022
We asked our Library team to share their top books of 2022 — here's the team's top fiction and non-fiction books of 2022*.
Fiction
- The Invisible life of Addie LaRue by V. E. Schwab
- The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
- Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- The light in hidden places: a novel based on the true story of Stefania Podgorksa by Sharon Cameron
- The Paris library : a novel by Janet Skeslien Charles
- The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C.S. Robertson
- Exiles by Jane Harper
- The Murder Rule by Dervla McTiernan
- The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
- The Late Train to Gypsy Hill by Alan Johnson
- Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings
- Happy Hour by Jacqui Byron
- First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami
- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl by Andrea Lawlor
- Grand Union by Zadie Smith
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
- The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell
- Slade House by David Mitchell
- The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
- Getting clean with Stevie Green by Swan Huntley
- Heaven by Mieko Kawakami
- Sweet Bean Paste by Durian Sukegawa
- In the Winter Dark by Tim Winton
- How to loiter in a turf war by Coco Solid
- The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison
- A Deadly Education by Naomi Novak
- Lie With Me by Philippe Besson
- Lonely Castle in the Mirror by Mizuki Tsujimura
- Kaleidoscopes in the Dark: Dark Short Stories in Technicolor by Bethany G. Rogers
Non-fiction
- The Hidden Life of Trees: What they Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
- Stolen focus : why you can't pay attention by Johann Hari
- Tree Sense: Ways of Thinking About Trees by Susette Goldsmith
- The next Everest: Surviving the mountains deadliest day and finding the resilience to climb again by Jim Davidson
- Braiding sweetgrass : indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge and the teachings of plants by Robin M Kimmerer
- Anne Frank's diary : the graphic adaptation by Ari Folman
- Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
- Cast a diva : the hidden life of Maria Callas by Lyndsy Spence
- Miss Dior : a story of courage and couture by Justine Picardie
- Anna Wintour by Amy Odell
- Karl Lagerfeld by Alfons Kaiser
- The Palace Papers by Tina Brown
- Adrenal Thyroid Revolution by Aviva Romm
- Cabin fever : enchanting cabins, shacks, and hideaways by Robert Klanten
- Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Oliva Laing
- How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division by Elif Shafak
- Just Us: An American Conversation by Claudia Rankine
- Don’t Let Me Be Lonely by Claudia Rankine
- Niksen: the Dutch Art of Doing Nothing by Annette Lavrijsen
- The Future of British Politics by Frankie Boyle
- Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci (the audibook version on BorrowBox is excellent)
- The Beautiful Poetry of Donald Trump by Rob Sears
- Learn Like a Pro: Science-based tools to become better at anything by Barbara A. Oakley
- Stronger by Dinesh Palipana
- Slug and other things I’ve been told to hate by Holly McNish
- Mend: a refashioning manual and manifesto by Kate Sekules
- Dropbear by Evelyn Araluen
- One: Pot, Pan, Planet by Anna Jones
- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a human-centred planet by John Green
- Unbound : my story of liberation and the birth of the Me Too movement by Tarana Burke
- Your Money Your Future by Frances Cook
- The Little Book of Lykke by Meik Wiking
- Tales from a Financial Hot Mess by Frances Cook
- The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
*These are books that the team read in 2022, they're not necessarily published in 2022.