’Tis the season for annual year-end literary wrap-ups, and several books from NYRB Classics, New York Review Books, NYR Comics, NYR Poets, and the NYR Children’s Collection have appeared on “best of the year” lists. Click the links below to see some of the NYRB titles critics and reviewers enjoyed most in 2022.
Our Fort by Marie Dorléans (trans. Alyson Waters)
The New York Times Book Review
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/books/review/the-best-childrens-books-of-2022.html
The Projector and Elephant by Martin Vaughn-James
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books/article-top-5-graphic-novels-of-2022/
Gold by Rumi (trans. Haleh Liza Gafori)
The Marginalian
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/12/09/favorite-books-of-2022/
Telluria by Vladimir Sorokin (trans. Max Lawton)
The Spectator (UK)
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/books-of-the-year-i-chosen-by-our-regular-reviewers-2/
Seduced by Story by Peter Brooks
Vulture/New York Magazine
https://www.vulture.com/article/best-books-2022.html
My Phantoms by Gwendoline Riley
The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2022/12/best-books-2022-hua-hsu-gabrielle-zevin/672403/
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End by Charles Johnson
NPR
https://apps.npr.org/best-books/#year=2022&book=187
After by Vivek Narayanan
The TLS
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/tls-books-of-the-year-2022/
The Right to Be Lazy by Paul Lafargue (trans. Alex Andriesse)
Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette (trans. Paul Eprile)
Bookforum
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2904/writers-on-their-favorite-books-of-2022-25159
Letters to Gwen John by Celia Paul
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/15/arts/design/best-art-books-2022.html