For the December issue of O, the Oprah Mag, our team rounded upwardly some of the best books of 2019. And as our fearless leader Oprah herself says in the issue: "If a twelvemonth can be measured by the quantity of great reads it produced, 2022 is one for the books. So many brilliant writers bared their souls, dug deep for truth, spent years honing characters and story arcs, and did the difficult work of creating literature that sears our hearts and broadens our agreement of what it means to be human." From engrossing novels like Sally Rooney's Normal People to Oprah'due south Book Club picks like Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Water Dancer,these volume releases from the by year woke us up, haunted us, wowed us, and made us marvel again at the magic writers tin can create with words.
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The H2o Dancer, byTa-Nehisi Coates
twoMaggie Brown & Others: Stories, by Peter Orner
A pregnant woman goes missing in the Cascades. A former campsite counselor confronts mortality and the echoes of his ain desires. A Jewish community feuds in Fall River, Massachusetts. Orner brings grace and vigor to the short-story course in a preeminent drove, earning a place alongside Carver and Munro as he ranges across a wide emotional annals.
3The Dutch House, by Ann Patchett
Occasionally, the nearly radical storytelling is a riff on "once upon a time." Here, the acclaimed novelist unfurls an enthralling tale of a 20th-century Hansel and Gretel and the suburban-Philadelphia manor that haunts them. Danny and Maeve Conroy cobble together lives both content and contentious in a beautifully crafted exploration of i family unit's fractured connections.
4Dreyer's English, by Benjamin Dreyer
Brimming with wit and revelatory wisdom, this style manual–cum–linguistic jubilee from Random House'southward copy chief (a frequent corrector of the president's grammar on Twitter) entertains equally it enlightens. Covering everything from the truthful uses of semicolons and the notion that "clichés should exist avoided like the plague" to the redundancy of "assless chaps," Dreyer's guide is a gift to sticklers equally well equally those who demand to relearn the basics. And recall: "There is a earth of difference betwixt turning in to a driveway, which is a natural thing to practise with 1'due south car, and turning into a driveway."
5The Need, by Helen Phillips
In an ingenious, edgy speculative fiction that finds the monstrous in the notion of domestic repose, Phillips leads united states into a fraught daymare in which a young mother'southward feet—exacerbated by insomnia and her husband'due south absence—serves as a parable for all that keeps united states upwards at night.
6Sontag: Her Life and Work, by Benjamin Moser
Susan Sontag once confessed she'd hoped "being famous would be more than fun." She may have found celebrity unamusing, but this evocative and entertaining biography of the late cultural doyenne is anything but. Moser renders Sontag'due south ascent to intellectual distinction equally a rich and often rollicking affair.
7Patsy, by Nicole Dennis-Benn
Like New York Metropolis itself, Dennis-Benn's sweeping second novel—about a immature Jamaican female parent who leaves her homeland and her 5-year-one-time daughter for the promised liberty of the Big Apple—swells with gritty grandeur. An unflinching rumination on ambition and ambivalent maternity, Patsy turns a fish-out-of-water tale into a morally circuitous epic. Read an excerpt hither.
Pynchon meets the Pixies in this riotous, rocking novel fix in Manhattan and D.C. in the early '90s and the gentrifying decades that follow. Gen X punkers on the fringes of the downtown music scene, Pam and Daniel enhance their daughter with a freedom she doesn't want. Zink'due south popular culture references—and caustic social commentary—sparkle in a hipster valentine to a milieu that even so shapes u.s.a..
9Lost Children Annal, by Valeria Luiselli
With nods to Kerouac and Least Heat-Moon, an immense talent thrillingly reinvents the American road novel. Their family adrift, a pair of audio-visual researchers and their two children drive from New York to the Southwest, recording the border refugee crisis equally information technology etches enduring grooves on their souls and ours.
10Thou Marriage: Stories, by Zadie Smith
From the renowned novelist and critic comes a stirring debut collection of short fiction, exacting in its technique, jazzy in its improvisations, as it roams among drag queens, murderous soldiers, Greenwich Village puppeteers, and Hollywood icons fleeing the anarchy of 9/eleven. Smith's versatility astounds equally she weaves tapestries from "the half-washed, the unfinished, the broken, the shard," fashioning keen reflections on our absurd world.
elevenNormal People, by Emerge Rooney
Imagine Jane Austen as an Irish millennial, and you'll grasp the zeitgeist-capturing attraction of Rooney, a literary wunderkind whose wry, psychologically shrewd style makes her an astute observer of the dynamics of dearest. Her sophomore novel centers on the beguiling will-they-won't-they of ii teenagers (Marianne, a bookish late bloomer; Connell, a one time-popular jock turned social outcast) who "over the course of several years, patently could not leave one another alone." Read our interview with Rooney here.
12Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson
As seductive equally a Prince bop, Woodson's follow-up to Another Brooklyn is a move-to-its-ain-groove multigenerational saga of racism and an unplanned teen pregnancy that throws together two disparate families. This deceptively slim novel pulses with yearning—for more, for better, for love, and for the run a risk to write our ain stories.
13Rules for Visiting, by Jessica Francis Kane
For those needing a reminder to end and smell the roses: Look no farther than Kane'southward wholly palate-cleansing fourth volume, about a middle-anile gardener still living with her father who embarks on a Homeric quest to revive friendships that demand a trivial tender loving care. Read an excerpt here.
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An Oprah's Book Club Pick!
Olive, Again: A Novel
Oprah's about recent Book Social club pick is a vividly realized novel-in-stories that revisits the iconic title grapheme of Strout's 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,Olive Kitteridge. Of Olive—who'due south at present older and a tad wiser—Oprah said: "She reminds me that aging is no picnic—but then once more, that very vulnerability is what nosotros all accept in common and what binds us together." Read an extract hither.
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