This year, we have 29 literary candidates. As always, vote for however many you’re interested in reading. We’ll see what floats to the top and whittle our list down to our top 12 from there.
For reference on what the books are about, the full list with descriptions is below the ballot.
2022 Book Ballot
A Woman of No Importance / Sonia Purnell (6%, 4 Votes)
The Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler's Ghettos / Judy Batalion (6%, 4 Votes)
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry / Gabrielle Zevin (6%, 4 Votes)
Those Who Wish Me Dead / Michael Koryta (6%, 4 Votes)
Hillbilly Elegy – A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis / J.D. Vance (5%, 3 Votes)
The Four Winds / Kristin Hannah (5%, 3 Votes)
The Lions of Fifth Avenue / Fiona Davis (5%, 3 Votes)
The Jane Austen Society / Natalie Jenner (5%, 3 Votes)
The Night Swim / Megan Goldin (5%, 3 Votes)
The Secret Rescue / Cate Linberry (5%, 3 Votes)
This Tender Land / William Kent Krueger (5%, 3 Votes)
The Huntress / Kate Quinn (5%, 3 Votes)
To Be Hoosiers: Historic Stories of Character and Fortitude / Ray Boomhower (3%, 2 Votes)
Plum Island / Nelson DeMille (3%, 2 Votes)
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine / Gail Honeyman (3%, 2 Votes)
The Watsons Go to Birmingham / Christopher Paul Curtis (3%, 2 Votes)
No Place Like Murder: True Crime in the Midwest / Janis Thornton (3%, 2 Votes)
Mortmain Hall / Morton Edwards (3%, 2 Votes)
Three Hours in Paris / Cara Black (3%, 2 Votes)
Salt to the Sea / Ruth Sepetys (3%, 2 Votes)
The Book of Longings / Sue Monk Kidd (3%, 2 Votes)
Between the World and Me / Ta-Nehisi Coates (2%, 1 Votes)
Attucks! Oscar Robertson and the Basketball Team That Awakened A City / Phillip Hoose (2%, 1 Votes)
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family and Defiance During the Blitz / Erik Larson (2%, 1 Votes)
The Known World / Edward P. Jones (2%, 1 Votes)
Tales of the South Pacific / James A. Michener (2%, 1 Votes)
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek / Kim Michele Richardson (0%, 0 Votes)
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