Amazon Best Books of 2022

Science Fiction and Fantasy

• Fairy Tale, Stephen King (Scribner)
• Sea of Tranquility, Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf)
• The Atlas Six, Olivie Blake (Tor)
• The Kaiju Preservation Society, John Scalzi (Tor)
• The Measure, Nikki Erlick (William Morrow)
• Daughter of the Moon Goddess, Sue Lynn Tan (Harper Voyager)
• Book of Night, Holly Black (Tor)
• The Starless Crown, James Rollins (Tor)
• Other Birds, Sarah Addison Allen (St. Martin’s)
• How High We Go in the Dark, Sequoia Nagamatsu (William Morrow)
• Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution, R.F. Kuang (William Morrow)
• When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill (Doubleday)
• All the Seas of the World, Guy Gavriel Kay (Berkley)
• Spells for Forgetting: A Novel, Adrienne Young (Delacorte)
• The Book Eaters, Sunyi Dean (Tor)
• The Memory Librarian, Janelle Monáe (Harper Voyager)
• Siren Queen, Nghi Vo (Tordotcom)
• The Final Strife, Saara El-Arifi (Del Rey)
• The Mountain in the Sea, Ray Nayler (MCD)
• The Lost Metal, Brandon Sanderson (Tor)

Literature & Fiction

• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, Gabrielle Zevin (Knopf)
• Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver (Harper)
• Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng (Penguin)
• All the Broken Places, John Boyne (Pamela Dorman)
• Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (Ecco)
• Now Is Not the Time to Panic, Kevin Wilson (Ecco)
• Mad Honey, Jodi Picoult (Ballantine)
• Reminders of Him, Colleen Hoover (Montlake)

Mysteries and Thrillers

• City on Fire, Don Winslow (William Morrow)
• Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn (Berkley)
• The Hacienda, Isabel Cañas (Berkley)
• Shutter, Ramona Emerson (Soho Crime)
• Hidden Pictures, Jason Rekulak (Flatiron)
• What Happened to the Bennetts, Lisa Scottoline (G.P. Putnman’s Sons) ‎
• Carolina Moonset, Matt Goldman (Forge)
• Bleeding Heart Yard, Elly Griffiths (Mariner)

Young Adult

• Our Crooked Hearts, Melissa Albert (Flatiron)
• All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir (Razorbill)
• The Epic Story of Every Living Thing, Deb Caletti (Labyrinth)
• The Final Gambit, Jennifer Lynn Barnes (Little, Brown)
• Belladonna, Adalyn Grace (Little, Brown)
• I Kissed Shara Wheeler, Casey McGuiston (Wednesday)
• Long Live the Pumpkin Queen, Shea Ernshaw (Disney)
• Children of Ragnarok, Cinda Williams Chima (Balzer + Bray)
• The First to Die at the End, Adam Silvera (Quill Tree)
• Hotel Magnifique, Emily J. Taylor (Razorbill)
• Foul Lady Fortune, Chloe Gong (Margaret K. McElderry)
• All of Our Demise, Amanda Foody & C.L. Herman (Tor Teen)