Best Books 2022: LitHub's Ultimate Best List

This post is part of my year end "Attack of the Best Lists" coverage. To see every post in my "Best Books 2022" series you can use the best lists tag.  

Yesterday, one of my favorite best lists dropped-- Lit Hub's annual data crunch, of best lists from 29 major outlets. They make a list of the books that got the most "best" nods so you can get a sense of a consensus. And the outlets they check are both literary and populist.

I do not love this list for just  the obvious reason that it gives you a sense of the overall "best" books but I also use it to build my annual "Year in Review" presentation that I give for PCI Webinars. More on that in January.

But that is next month, for today here is the Ultimate Best Books of 2022 via LitHub compiled by Emily Temple as described below at that site:

Click here to see the list on the LitHub site

Another year of books comes to a close, and with it, the obligatory frantic listmaking—which at its best may inspire reminiscing, reconsidering, and excellent gift-purchasing, but at its worst may inspire hurt feelings, overwhelm, and doom-scrolling. But I’m not here to judge, or to save us. I’m just here to count.

So here at the end, as is annual Literary Hub tradition, you will find the big list of lists—aka the biggest popularity contest in books (probably). This year, I worked through 35 lists from 29 publications (yes, there are even more lists out there, but we’re all going to die some day), tallying a total of 887 books. 84 books were highlighted on 4 or more lists, and I have collated those for you here, in descending order of frequency. Read, enjoy, and try not to feel bad

Click here to read the list, as well as to see the 29 publications consulted at the end of the list. And of course, since it is a Becky favorite, access to previous year's Ultimate Best Lists is in the article itself-- linked above and here by me.