Best Crime/Thriller Books 2022 Archives

As the year grinds to a halt, we’ll be reviewing some of the best books of 2022 and you can let us know which ones were your favorites. Here’s hoping you enjoy this trip down memory lane.

One thing is certain, books either as paperback or electronic reading devices, will never become extinct. This is because people of all ages, race and gender love stories. Reading literature provides just the right amount of relief from unpleasant realities. It also transports readers to different worlds, could be the land of mysteries, adventures, horror, or love.

Books, especially paperbacks are addictive and it’s quite easy to get lost in their pages. Well-crafted stories are equally the ones that stick forever, often engaging the imagination. Let’s delve into the list of best books 2022 that folks around the literary globe enjoyed reading.

What Books Were The Best Books Of 2022?

What Books Were The Best Books 2022? — Credit: pexels.com@pixababy

You asked, we delivered. These are the best books of 2022 by genre, they came highly recommended from avid readers. We have decided that both the books published recently and prior to 2022 be included in this list. Because books in the ‘best books’ category shouldn’t be limited only to the year it hit the market.

Fiction Books 2022

To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
Lessons by Ian McEwan
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
Companion Piece by Ali Smith
The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid
Harrow by Joy Williams
The Trees by Percival Everett
Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo
After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz
Trespasses by Louise Kennedy
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
Remote Sympathy by Catherine Chidgey
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
The Exhibitionist by Charlotte
I’m Sorry You Feel that Way by Rebecca Wait
Very Cold People by Sarah Manguso
The Furrows by Namwali Serpell
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Amy & Lan by Sadie Jones
An Olive Grove in Ends by Moses
The Whale Tattoo by Jon Ransom
I’m A Fan by Sheena Patel
When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Solà
Delphi by Clare Pollard
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus
Send Nudes by Saba Sams
Reward System by Jem Calder
We Move by Gurnaik Johal
Liberation Day by George Saunders
Yoga by Emmanuel Carrère
The Book of Goose by Yiyun Li
Marigold and Rose by Louise Gluck
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Crime/Thriller Books 2022

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The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
The Paris Apartment by Lucy Foley
The Cook by Ajay Chowdhury
A World of Curiosities by Louise Penny
The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett
Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill by C.S. Robertson
Meantime by Frankie Boyle
The Partisan by Patrick Worrall
Hawk Mountain by Conner Habib
WAKE by Shelley Burr
More Than You’ll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez
The Maid by Nita Prose
A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin
Give Unto Others by Donna Leon
The Murder Book by Mark Billingham
Bleeding Heart Yard by Elly Griffiths
Maror by Lavie Tidhar
Blue Water by Leonora Nattrass
The Lost Man of Bombay by Vaseem Khan
Queen High by C J Carey
Breaking Point by Olivier Norek
The Moose Paradox by Antti Tuomainen
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garci
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The Maid by Nita Prose
The Book Of Cold Cases by Simone ST. James
A Flicker In The Dark by Richard Osman
The It Girl by Ruth Ware
All Good People Here by Ashley Flowers
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
The House Maid by Frieda McFadden
Billy Summers by Stephen King
The Wife Upstairs by Rachel Hawkins
The Guest List by Lucy Foley
The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

Romance Novels 2022

Book Lovers by Emily Henry
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
Terms and Conditions by Lauren Asher
It Starts with Us (It Ends with Us, #2) by Colleen Hoover
Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune
Things We Never Got Over (Knockemout, #1) by Lucy Score
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (Bright Falls, #1) by Ashley Herring Blake
Twisted Hate by Ana Huang
Hook, Line, and Sinker (Bellinger Sisters, #2) by Tessa Bailey
Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi
Electric Idol (Dark Olympus, #2) by Katee Robert
The Bodyguard by Katherine Center
The American Roommate Experiment (Spanish Love Deception, #2) by Elena Armas
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Thank You for Listening by Julia Whelan
The Kiss Curse (The Ex Hex, #2) by Erin Sterling
Dating Dr. Dil (If Shakespeare was an Auntie, #1) by Nisha Sharma
The Wedding Crasher by Mia Sosa
Things You Save in a Fire by Katherine Center
Confess by Colleen Hoover
By the Book: A Meant to be Novel by Jasmine Guillory
Husband Material by Alexis Hall
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
After Hours on Milagro Street by Angelina M. Lopez
In a New York Minute by Kate Spencer
Starry-Eyed Love by Helena Hunting
For Butter Or Worse: A Rom Com by Erin La Rosa
Mistakes Were Made by Meryl Wilsner
The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon
Kiss Her Once for Me: A Novel by Alison Cochrun
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera
Drunk on Love by Jasmine Guillory
Husband Material by Alexis Hall
I’m So (Not) Over You by Kosoko Jackson
How to Fake It in Hollywood: A Novel by Ava Wilder, 2022
A Very Merry Bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams
Kamila Knows Best by Farah Heron
Nora Goes Off Script by Annabel Monaghan

Memoirs 2022

Finding Me: A Memoir by Viola Davis
Lost & Found: A Memoir by Kathryn Schulz
Managing Expectations: A Memoir in Essays by Minnie Driver, 2022
Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life by Delia Ephron
Mean Baby: A Memoir of Growing Up by Selma Blair
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono, 2022
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom
I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
Admissions: Memoir of Surviving Boarding School by Kendra James
Rough Draft: A Memoir by Katy Tur
Hello, Molly! A Memoir by Molly Shannon
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras
README.txt: A Memoir by Chelsea Manning
South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation by Imani Perry
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott
Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir by Margo Jefferson
Dirtbag, Massachusetts: A Confessional by Isaac Fitzgerald
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage by Heather Havrilesky
The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O’Rourke
Also a Poet: Frank O’Hara, My Father, and Me by Ada Calhoun
Black American Refugee: Escaping the Narcissism of the American Dream by Tiffanie Drayton
We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story by Simu Liu
Burn the Page: A True Story of Torching Doubts, Blazing Trails, and Igniting Change by Danica Roem
James Patterson: The Stories of My Life by James Patterson
Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life by Alice Wong
Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation by Maud Newton
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home by Jami Attenberg
Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today by Craig McNamara
Unmasked: My Life Solving America’s Cold Cases by Robin Gaby Fisher
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir by Matthew Perry
The Crane Wife: A Memoir in Essays by CJ Hauser
A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
Homelands: The History of a Friendship by Chitra Ramaswamy
The Last Days: A Memoir of Faith, Desire and Freedom by Ali Millar
The Beauty of Dusk: On Vision Lost and Found by Frank Bruni
Agatha Christie: An Elusive Woman by Lucy Worsley
Never Simple: A Memoir by Liz Scheier
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos
Miss Me with That: Hot Takes, Helpful Tidbits, and a Few Hard Truths by Rachel Lindsay
Control Freak: My Epic Adventure Making Video Games by Cliff Bleszinski

Poetry Books 2022

Unexhausted Time by Emily Berry
Time Is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
All the Flowers Kneeling by Paul Tran
The Illustrated Woman by Helen Mort
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head: Poems by Warsan Shire
Broken Halves of a Milky Sun: Poems by Aaiún Nin
Golden Ax by Rio Cortez
Manorism by Yomi Sode
A Hundred Lovers: Poems by Richie Hofmann
The Hurting Kind by Ada Limón
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
Alive at the End of the World by Saeed Jones
Unlock Your Storybook Heart by Amanda Lovelace
Duende: Poems, 1966-Now by Quincy Troupe
Quiet by Victoria Adukwei Bulley
Best Barbarian: Poems by Roger Reeves
The English Summer by Holly Hopkins
Customs: Poems by Solmaz Sharif
A Year & Other Poems by Jos Charles
100 Queer Poems, edited by Andrew McMillan and Mary Jean Chan
Why the Assembly Disbanded by Roberto Tejada
The True Account of Myself as a Bird by Robert Wrigley
Home Is Not A Place by Johny Pitts, Roger Robinson
Against Heaven: Poems by Kemi Alabi
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems by C. T. Salazar
All the Blood Involved in Love by Maya Marshall
Mausoleum of Flowers by Daniel Summerhill
Return Flight by Jennifer Huang
Song of My Softening by Omotara James
Please Make Me Pretty, I Don’t Want to Die: Poems by Tawanda Mulalu
Balladz by Sharon Olds
Content Warning: Everything by Akwaeke Emezi
Refractive Africa by Will Alexander
Canopy: Poems by Linda Gregerson
The Slain Birds by Michael Longley
Dream of the Divided Field: Poems
Bluest Nude by Ama Codjoe
Then the War: And Selected Poems, 2007-2020 by Carl Phillips
Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light: Fifty Poems for Fifty Years by Joy Harjo

History Books 2022

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile by Candice Millard
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams by Stacy Schiff
Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain by Hannah Rose Woods
American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy’s Forgotten Crisis by Adam Hochschild
The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes
Russia: Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor
Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire by Caroline Elkins
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells by Sarah Churchwell
African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals by David Hackett Fischer
Persians: The Age of the Great Kings by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis’ Fortress Prison by Ben Macintyre
And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle by Jon Meacham
G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage
Femina: A New History of the Middle Ages, Through the Women Written Out of It by Janina Ramirez
Northerners: A History, from the Ice Age to the Present Day byBrian Groom
The House of Dudley: A New History of Tudor England by Joanne Paul
France: An Adventure History by Graham Robb
The Shortest History of the Soviet Union by Sheila Fitzpatrick
The Lion House: The Coming of A King by Christopher de Bellaigue
Rise: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now by Jeff Yang
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 byThomas E. Ricks
Horizons: The Global Origins of Modern Science by James Poskett
The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
The Last Colony: A Tale of Exile, Justice and Britain’s Colonial Legacy by Philippe Sands
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor–the Truth and the Turmoil by Tina Brown
Queens of the Age of Chivalry by Alison Weir
A History of Britain in Just a Minute by Gyles Brandreth
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time by Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown by Anna Keay
The Siege of Loyalty House: A New History of the English Civil War by Jessie Childs
Britain’s Plot to Kill Hitler: The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE by Eric Lee
Personality and Power: Builders and Destroyers of Modern Europe by Ian Kershaw
1945: Victory in the West by Peter Caddick-Adams
The World by Simon Sebag Montefiore
The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
The Last Emperor of Mexico: A Disaster in the New World by Edward Shawcross

Sports Books 2022

The Beautiful Poetry of Football Commentary by Charlie Eccleshare
Expected Goals: The Story of how Data Conquered Football and Changed the Game Forever by Rory Smith
Always Believe: The Autobiography of Olivier Giroud by Olivier Giroud
A New Formation: How Black Footballers Shaped the Modern Game by Calum Jacobs
England Football: The Biography: 1872 – 2022 by Paul Hayward
1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That by Matt Dickinson
A Delicate Game: Brain Injury, Sport and Sacrifice by Hana Walker-Brown
The People’s Game: A View from a Front Seat in Football: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER by Gary Neville
Being Geoffrey Boycott by Geoffrey Boycott
On Days Like These: My Life in Football by Martin O’Neill
Field of Play: 60 Years of NFL Photography by Joe Montana
Calling the Shots: My Autobiography by Sue Barker
Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was by Daniel Friebe
The Last Folk Hero: The Life and Myth of Bo Jackson byJeff Pearlman
How to Be a Football Manager: Enter the Hilarious and Crazy World of the Gaffer by Ian Holloway
How (Not) To Be Strong: The Inspirational Instant Sunday Times Bestseller by Alex Scott
Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf’s Most Colorful Superstar by Alan Shipnuck
Johan Cruyff: Always on the Attack by Auke Kok
Born to Run 2: The Ultimate Training Guide by Christopher McDougall
My Sporting Life: Memories, Moments and Declarations by Michael Parkinson
How to Be an Ex-Footballer by Peter Crouch
Jordan Henderson: The Autobiography: The Must-read Autobiography from Liverpool’s Beloved Captain by Jordan Henderson
How to Win the World Cup: Secrets and Insights from International Football’s Top Managers by Chris Evans
BBC Sports Report: A Celebration of the World’s Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme by Pat Murphy
A Very Tall Story by Martin Bayfield
Football Murals: A Celebration of Soccer’s Greatest Street Art by Andy Brassell
The Rodfather: Inside the Beautiful (Ugly, Ridiculous, Hilarious) Game by Paul Howard
A History of the GAA in 100 Objects by Siobhan Doyle
Scoring Goals in the Dark by Gareth Maher
Swagger: Super Bowls, Brass Balls, and Footballs–A Memoir by Jimmy Johnson
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II by Buzz Bissinger
Cheers, Geoff! Tales from the Touchline by Geoff Shreeves
Beryl: In Search of Britain’s Greatest Athlete by Jeremy Wilson
A Giant Win: Inside the New York Giants’ Historic Upset Over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLII by Tom Coughlin
The Break: Life as a Cycling Maverick by Steve Cummings
Barry Hearn: My Life: Knockouts, Snookers, Bullseyes, Tight Lines and Sweet Deals by Barry Hearn
Chased By Pandas: My Life in the Mysterious World of Cycling by Dan Martin
Head On: A Memoir by Larry Csonka
My Hidden Race: Anyika Onuora by Anyika Onuora
Seventeen and Oh: Miami, 1972, and the NFL’s Only Perfect Season by Marshall Jon Fisher

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