2022 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2022.

Anniversaries

New books

Dates after each title indicate U.S. publication, unless otherwise indicated.

Fiction

New adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of Pub. Ref.
Jessamine Chan The School for Good Mothers January 4 [20]
Noah Hawley Anthem [21]
Nita Prose The Maid [22]
Jabari Asim Yonder January 11 [21]
Diane Chamberlain The Last House On The Street [21]
Hanya Yanagihara To Paradise [23][24]
May Nikki Wahala [25]
Colleen Hoover Reminders of Him January 18 [26]
Sequoia Nagamatsu How High We Go In the Dark [26]
Weike Wang Joan is Okay [21]
Blackburn Lizzie Damilola Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? [27]
Isabel Allende Violeta January 25 [26]
Tochi Onyebuchi Goliath [28]
Marlon James Moon Witch, Spider King February 15 [24]
Sheila Heti Pure Colour [29]
Quan Barry When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East February 22 [24]
Lucy Foley The Paris Apartment [26]
Ashley Herring Blake Delilah Green Doesn't Care [26]
Julie Otsuka The Swimmers [30]
Rebecca Serle One Italian Summer March 1 [26][31]
Simone St. James The Book of Cold Cases [26]
Jennifer Egan The Candy House April 5 [32][24]
Bonnie Garmus Lessons in Chemistry [33]
Emily St. John Mandel Sea of Tranquility [34][26][24]
Douglas Stuart Young Mungo [35][24]
Lisa Hsiao Chen Activities of Daily Living April 12 [36]
Kimberly Brock The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare April 12 [37]
Holly Black Book of Night May 3 [26]
Hernan Diaz Trust [26]
Elif Batuman Either/Or May 24 [24]
Akwaeke Emezi You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty [31]
Nina LaCour Yerba Buena May 31 [38]
Lydia Conklin Rainbow, Rainbow [24]
Ottessa Moshfegh Lapvona June 21 [39]
Gabrielle Zevin Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow July 5 [22]
Amber Gill Until I Met You July 7 (UK) [40]
Alexis Hall Husband Material August 2 [26]
Tess Gunty The Rabbit Hutch [33]
Shehan Karunatilaka The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida August 4 (UK) [41]
R. F. Kuang Babel, or the Necessity of Violence August 23 [42]
Suzette Mayr The Sleeping Car Porter August 29 (Canada) [43]
Simon Jimenez The Spear Cuts Through Water August 30 [44]
Maggie O'Farrell The Marriage Proposal August 31 (UK) [45][46]
Gayl Jones The Birdcatcher September 13 [47]
Tamsyn Muir Nona the Ninth [48]
Andrew Sean Greer Less Is Lost September 20 [49]
Yiyun Li The Book of Goose [50]
Celeste Ng Our Missing Hearts October 4 [33]
Colleen Hoover It Starts with Us October 18 [51]
George Saunders Liberation Day: Stories [52]
Onyi Nwabineli Someday, Maybe November 1 [53]
Tegan Nia Swanson Things We Found When the Water Went Down December 6 [54]

Children and young adults

New children's and young adult fiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Akshaya Raman The Ivory Key January 4 [55]
Jacqueline Woodson The Year We Learned to Fly [56]
Sue Lynn Tan Daughter of the Moon Goddess January 11 [28]
Nnedi Okorafor Akata Woman January 18 [28]
Eva Chen I Am Golden February 1 [57]
Leanne Hall The Gaps February 8 [58]
Akwaeke Emezi Bitter February 15 [59]
V. E. Schwab Gallant March 1 [26]
Sabaa Tahir All My Rage [26]
Deborah Falaye Blood Scion March 8 [60]
Kelly Barnhill The Ogress and the Orphans [61]
Casey McQuiston I Kissed Shara Wheeler May 3 [26]
Jen Ferguson The Summer of Bitter and Sweet May 10 [62]
Laura Kate Dale Me and My Dysphoria Monster August 18 [63]
Aaron Reynolds Creepy Crayon! August 23 [64]
Mo Willems The Pigeon Will Ride the Roller Coaster! September 6 [65]
John Boyne All the Broken Places September 15 [66]
Malinda Lo A Scatter of Light October 4 [67]
Liz Montague Maybe an Artist October 18 [68]
Kim Spencer Weird Rules to Follow [69]
Jeff Kinney Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde October 25 [70]
DeuxMoi & Jessica Goodman Anon Pls. November 8 [71]
Ammaar Reshi/ChatGPT Alice and Sparkle December 4 [72]

Poetry

Drama

Nonfiction

New nonfiction, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Imani Perry South to America: A Journey Below the Mason Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation January 25 [26][24]
Daniel H. Pink The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward February 1 [26]
Chuck Klosterman The Nineties February 8 [26]
Alexandra Lange Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall June 14 [74]
Ed Yong An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us June 21 [75]
Elizabeth Alexander The Trayvon Generation June 28 [24]
Patrick Radden Keefe Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks June 28 [76]
Philip Rosenthal and Jenn Garbee Somebody Feed Phil the Book October 18 [77]
Quentin Tarantino Cinema Speculation November 1 [78]
Michelle Obama The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times November 15 [33]
Oskar Lafontaine Ami, it's time to go! Plädoyer für die Selbstbehauptung Europas November 21 [79]
Leila Philip Beaverland December 6 [80]
Jessica Grose Screaming on the Inside December 6 [81]

Biography and memoirs

New biographies and memoirs, sorted by date of publication
Author Title Date of pub. Ref.
Bernardine Evaristo Manifesto: On Never Giving Up January 18 [24]
Laura Gao Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese-American March 8 [82]
Elena Ferrante In the Margins: On the Pleasures of Reading and Writing March 15 [24]
Maud Newton Ancestor Trouble: A Reckoning and a Reconciliation March 29 [26][24]
Hannah Gadsby Ten Steps to Nanette March 29 (Australia) [83]
Delia Ephron Left on Tenth: A Second Chance at Life April 12 [24]
Janelle Monáe The Memory Librarian April 19 [31]
Viola Davis Finding Me April 26 [31]
Jennette McCurdy I'm Glad My Mom Died August 9 [33]
Yasmín Ramírez ¡Ándale, Prieta! A Love Letter to My Family August 2 [9]

Films

Deaths

2022 deaths, sorted by date of death
Individual Background Date of death Age Cause of death Ref.
Zheng Min Chinese poet January 3 101 [84]
F. Sionil José Filipino novelist and journalist January 6 97 [85]
Terry Teachout American author, critic, biographer, playwright, stage director, and librettist January 13 65 [86][87]
Ron Goulart American author of Groucho Marx mysteries January 14 89 Respiratory arrest [88]
Thiago de Mello Brazilian poet and translator January 14 95 [89]
André Leon Talley American fashion author, editor, and journalist January 18 73 Complications of a heart attack and COVID-19 [90][91][92][93]
Lani Forbes American young adult novelist` February 3 35 Neuroendocrine cancer [94]
Ashley Bryan American writer and illustrator of children's books February 4 98 [95][96]
Jason Epstein American editor and publisher February 4 93 Congestive heart failure [97]
Kenta Nishimura Japanese novelist February 5 54 [98]
Bruce Duffy American novelist February 10 70 Brain cancer [99]
P. J. O'Rourke American political satirist and journalist February 15 74 Lung cancer [100]
Jan Pieńkowski Polish-born English writer and illustrator of children's books (Meg and Mog) February 19 85 Complications of dementia [101]
Shirley Hughes English writer and illustrator of children's books February 25 94 [102]
Nelson W. Aldrich Jr. American author, editor, and journalist March 8 86 Complications from Parkinson's disease [103]
Maureen Howard American novelist, memoirist, and editor March 13 91 [104]
Yuz Aleshkovsky Russian-American writer, poet, and singer-songwriter March 21 92 [105] (in Russian)
Ted Mooney American novelist and journalist (Art in America) March 22 70 Heart disease [106]
Richard Howard American poet, critic, and translator March 31 92 [107]
David McKee English writer and illustrator of children's books (Elmer the Patchwork Elephant, Not Now, Bernard) April 6 87 [108]
Jack Higgins British crime writer April 9 92 [109]
Serhiy Dyachenko Ukrainian fantasy novelist May 5 77 [110]
Patricia A. McKillip American fantasy novelist (The Forgotten Beasts of Eld) May 6 74 [111]
Kim Chi-ha South Korean poet and playwright May 8 81 [112]
Peter Lamborn Wilson American anarchist author and poet (Temporary Autonomous Zone) May 22 76-77 [113]
Morton L. Janklow American literary agent May 25 91 [114][115]
Walter Abish Austrian-born American author of experimental novels and short stories May 28 90 [116]
Boris Pahor Slovenian writer (Necropolis) May 30 108 [117]
George Lamming Barbadian novelist (In the Castle of My Skin) and poet June 4 94 [118]
Duncan Hannah American visual artist and author June 11 69 Heart attack [119]
A. B. Yehoshua Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright June 14 85 Cancer [120]
Raffaele La Capria Italian writer and screenwriter (Hands over the City, Many Wars Ago) June 26 99 [121]
Frank Moorhouse Australian novelist and screenwriter June 26 83 [122]
Susie Steiner British crime novelist July 2 51 Brain cancer [123]
Joan Lingard Scottish author (The Kevin and Sadie series) July 12 90 [124]
Stuart Woods American novelist (Chiefs) July 22 84 [2]
Melissa Bank American author (The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing) August 2 61 Lung cancer [125]
David McCullough American author. Historian, and biographer (Truman, John Adams) August 7 89 [126]
Raymond Briggs English author, illustrator, cartoonist and graphic novelist (The Snowman, Father Christmas, Fungus the Bogeyman) August 9 88 Pneumonia [127][128]
Nicholas Evans English journalist, novelist (The Horse Whisperer), and screenwriter August 9 72 Heart attack [129]
Jean-Jacques Sempé French cartoonist (Le Petit Nicolas) August 11 89 [130]
Frederick Buechner American novelist (A Long Day's Dying (1950), Godric (1980)), memoirist (The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1982)), essayist, poet, theologian, and preacher August 15 96 [131][132]
Joseph Delaney English author (Spook's) August 16 77 [133]
Hadrawi Somali poet August 18 78-79 [134]
Michael Malone American writer August 19 80 Pancreatic cancer [135]
Peter Straub American writer (Julia, Ghost Story, and The Talisman) September 4 79 [136]
Mariella Mehr Swiss novelist, playwright and poet September 5 74 [137]
Javier Marías Spanish novelist (A Heart So White and Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me) September 11 70 Pneumonia [138]
Yadollah Royaee Iranian poet September 14 90 [139]
Tibor Frank Hungarian historian September 15 74 [140]
Saul Kripke American philosopher and logician September 15 81 [141]
Hilary Mantel British novelist (Wolf Hall) September 22 70 [142][143]
Knud Sørensen Danish novelist, essayist and poet September 26 94 [144]
Marguerite Andersen German-born Canadian writer, poet and translator October 1 97 [145]
Charles Fuller American playwright (A Soldier's Play, Zooman and the Sign) October 3 83 [146]
Rebecca Godfrey Canadian author October 3 54 Lung cancer [147]
David Huerta Mexican poet October 3 72 [148]
Peter Robinson British-born Canadian crime writer October 4 72 [149]
Temsüla Ao Indian poet and writer (Laburnum For My Head) October 9 76 [150]
Bruno Latour French philosopher and sociologist (Laboratory Life, Science in Action, We Have Never Been Modern) October 9 75 Pancreatic cancer [151]
Thomas Cahill American scholar and writer (How the Irish Saved Civilization) October 18 82 [152]
John Jay Osborn Jr. American writer (The Paper Chase) October 19 77 Squamous cell cancer [153]
Anton Donchev Bulgarian novelist (Time of Parting) and screenwriter October 20 92 [154]
Leszek Engelking Polish writer and translator October 22 67 [155]
Mike Davis American writer, political activist, urban theorist, and historian (City of Quartz, Late Victorian Holocausts, Set the Night on Fire) October 25 76 Cancer [156]
Julie Powell American author (Julie & Julia) October 25 49 Cardiac arrest [157]
Gerald Stern American poet, essayist, and educator October 27 97 [158]
Bahaa Taher Egyptian novelist and short story writer October 27 87 [159]
Hava Pinhas-Cohen Israeli writer and poet October 29 67 [160]
Gael Greene American author November 1 88 [161]
Doris Grumbach American novelist, memoirist, biographer, literary critic, and essayist November 4 104 [162]
Geoff Cochrane New Zealand poet, novelist and short story writer November 14 71 [163]
Marcus Sedgwick British writer, illustrator and musician November 15 54 [164]
Joëlle Guillais French writer November 19 70 Stroke [165]
Marijane Meaker American writer (Spring Fire) November 21 95 Cardiac arrest [166]
Bernadette Mayer American poet and writer November 22 77 [167]
Milovan Danojlić Serbian poet, essayist and literary critic November 23 85 [168]
Christian Bobin French author and poet November 24 71 [169]
Hans Magnus Enzensberger German author, poet, translator, and editor (Der Untergang der Titanic, The Number Devil) November 24 93 [170]
Abdulaziz Al-Maqaleh Yemeni poet and essayist November 28 85 [171]
Ray Nelson American science fiction writer (The Ganymede Takeover, The Prometheus Man) November 30 91 [172]
Dominique Lapierre French author December 4 91 [173][174]
Claude Mossé French historian December 12 97 [175]
Manfred Messerschmidt German historian (Germany and the Second World War) December 18 96 [176]
Xi Xi Chinese novelist and poet December 18 85 Heart failure [177]
Françoise Bourdin French novelist December 25 70 [178]
Begoña Huertas Spanish writer December 25 57 [179]
Vijayasarathi Sribhashyam Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic December 28 86 [180]
Marion Meade American biographer and novelist December 29 88 [181]

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