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Best of 2022 List Details
Gulls of Europe, North Africa and the Middle East | Peter Adriaens, Mars Muusse, Philippe J. Dubois, and Frédéric Jiguet
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
The Joy of Science | Jim Al-Khalili
A Waterstones Best Science Book of the Year
The Good-Enough Life | Avram Alpert
A Financial Times FT Critics’ Book of the Year
A Next Big Idea Club Top Happiness Book of the Year
The Complete Works of W.H. Auden Volume I & II | W.H. Auden
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A New Statesman Book of the Year
A Daily Telegraph Best Poetry Book of the Year
A Tablet Book of the Year
Hummingbirds | Glenn Bartley and Andy Swash
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
Twelve Caesars | Mary Beard
A Christianity Today Book of the Year
Blood, Powder, and Residue | Beth A. Bechky
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The World the Plague Made | James Belich
A Spectator Book of the Year
A Prospect Best History Book of the Year
A FiveBooks Best Economic History Book of the Year
Viral Justice | Ruha Benjamin
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Thinking Like an Economist | Elizabeth Popp Berman
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Birds and Us | Tim Birkhead
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature & Environment Book of the Year
Lives of Fungi | Britt Bunyard
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Habitats of the World | Iain Campbell, Kenneth Behrens, Charley Hesse, and Phil Chaon
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
Work Pray Code | Carolyn Chen
One of Religion News Service’s Most Intriguing Books on Religion Read This Year
I Always Knew | Barbara Chase-Riboud
A CNN Style Best Book of the Year
Liberalism in Dark Times | Joshua L. Cherniss
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
The Underwater Eye | Margaret Cohen
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
For the Many | Dorothy Sue Cobble
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Kennan | Frank Costigliola
A Spectator Book of the Year
Rules | Lorraine Daston
A Chronicle of Higher Education’s Best Scholarly Book of the Year
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
The Secret Body | Daniel M. Davis
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Waterloo Sunrise | John Davis
A Daily Telegraph Best Book of the Year
Penguins | Tui De Roy, Mark Jones, and Julie Cornthwaite
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
In Praise of Good Bookstores | Jeff Deutsch
A Scholarly Kitchen Best Books Read and Favorite Cultural Creations of the Year
A Commonweal Best Book of the Year
The Party and the People | Bruce J. Dickson
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
You Are What You Read | Robert DiYanni
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Delicious | Rob Dunn and Monica Sanchez
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Currency of Politics | Stefan Eich
An Open Magazine Best Book of the Year
Juno’s Aeneid | Joseph Farrell
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
How Birds Evolve | Douglas J. Futuyma
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
We Are Not Born Submissive | Manon Garcia
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Career & Family | Claudia Goldin
A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year
The Ramayana of Valmiki | Robert P. Goldman
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Laboratories against Democracy | Jacob Grumbach
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Spin Dictators | Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best Politics Book of the Year
A Foreign Affairs Best of Books
One of The Atlantic’s Books That Made Us Think the Most this Year
When Eero Met His Match | Eva Hagberg
A Fast Company Best Design Book of the Year
Plagues upon the Earth | Kyle Harper
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Sonorous Desert | Kim Haines-Eitzen
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
The Perils of Interpreting | Henrietta Harrison
A History Today Book of the Year
Words for the Heart | Maria Heim
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Britain’s Birds | Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, Hugh Harrop, and David Tipling
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
Europe’s Birds | Rob Hume, Robert Still, Andy Swash, and Hugh Harrop
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
Paul Laurence Dunbar | Gene Andrew Jarrett
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
A Book Riot Best Biography of the Year
Jane Austen, Early and Late | Freya Johnston
An A Kennedy Smith Book of the Year
George Berkeley | Tom Jones
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Groundwork | David Young Kim
An Artforum Best Book of the Year
Founded in Fiction | Thomas Koenigs
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Translating Myself and Others | Lahiri
One of Literary Hub’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction Books of the Year
One of Literary Hub’s Best Reviewed Essay Collections of the Year
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio | Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster
One of Morningstar’s Recommended Books of the Year
Adam Smith’s America | Glory M. Liu
An NPR Books We Love selection
That Tyrant, Persuasion | J. E. Lendon
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
Data Driven | Karen Levy
A TAP Notable Privacy + Security Book of the Year
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion | Elizabeth Carolyn Miller
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
A History of Biology | Michel Morange
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Please make me pretty, I don’t want to die | Tawanda Mulalu
A Washington Post Best Poetry Collection of the Year
A New York Times Best Poetry Book of the Year
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year
The Spirit of Green | William D. Nordhaus
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
New Lefts | Terence Renaud
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Africa’s Struggle for Its Art | Bénédicte Savoy
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
Denmark Vesey’s Bible | Jeremy Schipper
Winner of Christianity Today’s Award of Merit for History & Biography
The Princeton Guide to Historical Research | Zachary Schrag
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
The Idea of Prison Abolition | Tommie Shelby
A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year
Maria Theresa | Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
A Financial Times Best History Book of the Year
American Shtetl | Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year
How Birds Live Together | Marianne Taylor
A Birdwatcher’s Yearbook Best Bird Book of the Year
A Velvet Empire | David Todd
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Global Discord | Paul Tucker
A Financial Times Economics Book of the Year
Ice Rivers | Jemma Wadham
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year
Pioneers of Capitalism | Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden
A FiveBooks Best Economic History Book of the Year