Publishers Weekly Best Books 2022

The best books in the SF/Fantasy/Horror category are:

• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• Leech, Hiron Ennes (Tordotcom)
• Moon Witch, Spider King, Marlon James (Riverhead)
• Ocean’s Echo, Everina Maxwell (Tor)
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD)
• The Golden Enclaves, Naomi Novik (Del Rey)
• Lonely Castle in the Mirror, Mizuki Tsujimura, translated by Philip Gabriel (Erewhon)

Titles and authors of genre interest listed in other categories follow.

Fiction:

• Solenoid, Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Sean Cotter (Deep Vellum)
• The Candy House, Jennifer Egan (Scribner)
• Dr. No, Percival Everett (Graywolf)
• Devil House, John Darnielle (MCD)
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
• Season of Purgatory, Shahriar Mandanipour, translated by Sara Khalili (Bellevue)
• The Sleeping Car Porter, Suzette Mayr (Coach)
• Lessons, Ian McEwan (Knopf)
• Dinosaurs, Lydia Millet (Norton)
• The Swimmers, Julie Otsuka (Knopf)
• Companion Piece, Ali Smith (Pantheon)
• The Village Idiot, Steve Stern (Melville)
• Scattered All Over the Earth, Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani (New Directions)

Mystery/Thriller:

• Jackal, Erin E. Adams (Bantam)
• The Kingdoms of Savannah, George Dawes Green (Celadon)
• Targeted, Stephen Hunter (Atria/Bestler)
• Blackwater Falls, Ausma Zehanat Khan (Minotaur)
• Death and the Conjuror, Tom Mead (Mysterious)

Romance:

• A Lady for a Duke, Alexis Hall(Forever)
• The Dead Romantics, Ashley Poston (Berkley)
• Partners in Crime, Alisha Rai (Avon)
• Wicked Beauty, Katee Robert (Sourcebooks Casablanca)

Young Adult:

• Rust in the Root, Justina Ireland (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray)
• The Weight of Blood, Tiffany D. Jackson (HarperCollins/Tegen)
• I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Casey McQuiston (Wednesday)
• Ain’t Burned All the Bright, Jason Reynolds & Jason Griffin (Atheneum/Dlouhy)
• Man Made Monsters, Andrea L. Rogers, illustrated by Jeff Edwards (Levine Querido)
• The Honeys, Ryan La Sala (Push)
• The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera (Quill Tree)
• Hell Followed with Us, Andrew Joseph White (Peachtree Teen)

Middle Grade:

• The Ogress and the Orphans, Kelly Barnhill (Algonquin)
• Serwa Boateng’s Guide to Vampire Hunting, Roseanne A. Brown (Disney/Riordan)
• The Patron Thief of Bread, Lindsay Eagar (Candlewick)
• Jennifer Chan Is Not Alone, Tae Keller (Random House)
• Frizzy, Claribel A. Ortega, illustrated by Rose Bousamra (First Second)
• You Only Live Once, David Bravo, Mark Oshiro (HarperCollins)
• Black Bird, Blue Road, Sofiya Pasternack (Versify)
• Northwind, Gary Paulsen (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
• The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck, Matt Phelan (Greenwillow)
• The Last Mapmaker, Christina Soontornvat (Candlewick)
• A Rover’s Story, Jasmine Warga, illustrated by Matt Rockefeller (HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray)

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