Top 10 New York Times Most Notable 2022 Reads
Avalon
by Nell Zink

Follows a young woman searching for her place in the world, the story of one teenagers reckoning with society at large and her search for a personal utopia.
Bliss Montage
by Ling Ma

A collection of eight short stories from the author of Severance includes the tales of a woman who lives with all of her ex-boyfriends and of a toxic relationship built around a drug that makes you invisible.
Checkout 19
by Claire-Louise Bennett

A young woman working as a checkout clerk west of London explores her budding imagination and writing talents while reading tons of books and using the people around her and personal experiences to fuel her creativity.
Dead-End Memories
by Banana Yoshimoto

Published for the first time in the United States, a collection of short stories by the popular, master Japanese storyteller depict the lives of five women immediately following sudden and painful events and highlights their roads back to recovery.
Motherthing
by Ainslie Hogarth

After Laura, her venomous and cruel mother-in-law, takes her own life, Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves and, to free her husband from his tortured mind and break Laura’s hold on the family for good, devises a chilling plan. 
American Midnight
by Adam Hochschild

The award-winning New York Times best-selling historian examines America during World War I and its troubled aftermath, which included torture, censorship, racial-motivated killings and threats to democracy. 50,000 first printing. Illustrations.
Ducks
by Kate Beaton

An ambitiously complex graphic narrative of a Nova Scotian woman’s experience working in the oil sands of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
The Palace Papers
by Tina Brown

The #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Diana Chronicles takes readers inside the British royal family since the death of Princess Diana, showing the Queens stoic resolve as family drama raged around her.
The Song of the Cell
by Siddhartha Mukherjee

Presenting revelatory and exhilarating stories of scientists, doctors and the patients whose lives may be saved by their work, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, drawing on his own experience as a researcher, doctor and prolific reader, explores medicine and our radical new ability to manipulate cells. 
Walking the Bowl
by Chris Lockhart

Follows the lives of four street children in Lusaka, Zambia, as they navigate the city's violent and poverty-stricken underworld and cope with the impact of a murder investigation when the body of a ten-year-old child is discovered in Lusaka's largest landfill.
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