This year, a group of EPL staff members read a large number of 2022 adult titles. Here are the ones we recommend most:
Fiction:
Horse — Geraldine Brooks – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
School for Good Mothers — Jessamine Chan* – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Disorientation — Elaine Hsieh Chou – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Kiss Her Once for Me — Alison Cochrun – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Boys Come First — Aaron Foley – Book | eBook on Libby | eBook on Hoopla
Lessons in Chemistry — Bonnie Garmus – Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook
A More Perfect Union — Tammye Huf – Book
Love & Other Disasters — Anita Kelly – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
What Moves the Dead — T. Kingfisher – Book | eAudiobook
Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver – Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook
The Damage Done — Michael Landweber – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Bliss Montage — Ling Ma* – Book
Lapvona — Ottessa Moshfegh – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Life Ceremony: Stories — Sayaka Murata – Book | eBook
My Government Means to Kill Me — Rasheed Newson – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
The Swimmers — Julie Otsuka – Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook
Mad Honey — Jodi Picoult & Jennifer Boylan – Book | Large Print | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook
Last Summer on State Street — Toya Wolfe* – Book | Large Print | eBook | eAudiobook
No Land to Light On — Yara Zgheib – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Science Fiction:
The Grief of Stones — Katherine Addison – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Prayer for the Crown Shy (Monk & Robot #2) — Becky Chambers – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories — edited by Regina Kanyu Wang and Yu Chen – Book
Servant Mage — Kate Eliot – Book
Spear — Nicola Griffith – Book | eBook
Nettle & Bone — T. Kingfisher – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Where the Drowned Girls Go (Wayward Children #7) — Seanan McGuire – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Hunt the Stars — Jessie Mihalik – Book | eBook
Nona the Ninth (Locked Tomb #3) — Tamsyn Muir – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
How High We Go In The Dark — Sequoia Nagamatsu – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Goliath — Tochi Onyebuchi – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
High Times in the Low Parliament — Kelly Robson – Book
These Prisoning Hills — Christopher Rowe – Book
Daughter of the Moon Goddess — Sue Lynn Tan – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Nonfiction:
Inciting Joy: Essays — Ross Gay – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Tell Me Everything — Erika Krouse – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Fat Girls Hiking — Summer Michaud-Skog – Book
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction — Michelle Nijhuis – Book
The Last Slave Ship — Ben Raines – Book | eBook
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died? — Séamas O’Reilly – Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook
People Change — Vivek Shraya – Book | eBook
How the Word is Passed — Clint Smith – Book | eBook | CD Audiobook | eAudiobook
Mystery:
The Secret of Bow Lane — Jennifer Ashley – Book | eAudiobook on Libby | eAudiobook on Hoopla
A Perilous Perspective — Anna Lee Huber – Book | eAudiobook
Killers of a Certain Age — Deanna Raybourn – Book | eBook | eAudiobook
Graphic Novels:
Ducks — Kate Beaton – Book | eBook
Policing the City: An Ethnographic — Didier Fassin and Frédéric Debomy – Book
The Third Person — Emma Grove – Book | eBook
The Liminal Zone — Junji Ito – Book
My Brain is Different: Stories of ADHD and Other Developmental Disorders — Monzusu – Book
Biography:
Go Back to Where You Came From: And Other Helpful Recommendations on How to Become American — Wajahat Ali
In Love — Amy Bloom
Ten Steps to Nanette — Hannah Gadsby
I’m Glad My Mom Died — Jennette McCurdy
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir — Erika L. Sánchez*
All of This: A Memoir of Love and Desire — Rebecca Woolf
*Chicago Authors
A PDF copy of the list can be found here.
