Kramers Bestsellers of 2022
Did you read as much as you hoped you would in 2022? There are 15 days left in the year to clear those TBR lists! An impossible task, we know...
Here are our top ten bestsellers of the year in four categories - Adult Nonfiction, Adult Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, and Children's Fiction. This year we saw the resurgence of many old favorites. If you're looking for a new stack to read over winter break, these come highly recommended.
ADULT NONFICTION:
All About Love by bell hooks
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner
Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein
Talking To Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell
An Atlas of Extinct Countries by Gideon Defoe
Life Undercover by Amaryllis Fox
ADULT FICTION:
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Idiot by Elif Batuman
Severance by Ling Ma
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Circe by Madeline Miller
Normal People by Sally Rooney
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
YOUNG ADULT FICTION:
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas
Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Caraval by Stephanie Garber
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
American Royals by Katharine McGee
CHILDREN'S FICTION:
Pax by Sara Pennypacker
Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J. K. Rowling
Dog Man #1 by Dav Pilkey
Diary of a Wimpy Kid #17: Diper Overlode by Jeff Kinney
The School for Good & Evil by Soman Chainani
Spy School: the Graphic Novel by Stuart Gibbs
Cat Kid Comic Club: On Purpose by Dav Pilkey
Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling