The 10 Best Books of 2022

The Book Review

The New York Times

Books, Arts

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🗓️ 2 December 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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On a special new episode of the podcast, taped live, editors and critics from the Books desk discuss this year’s outstanding fiction and nonfiction.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, I'm Gilbert Cruz and this is the Book Review Podcast. It's December and
0:12.0	we have a holiday treat for you. On this week's episode we present the announcement of our
0:16.1	top ten books of the year. This is an edited version of a live event featuring the staff
0:21.5	of the New York Times Book Review. It was recorded on Tuesday, November 29th at the time
0:26.3	center in New York City.
0:34.3	Hello, good morning everyone. Thanks for being here today. Thanks to all of you who are
0:40.0	listening and watching online. My name is Gilbert Cruz. I'm the editor of the New York Times Book
0:45.2	Review and we're here to present the top ten books of 2022. I'm joined by several of our editors
0:51.1	as well as one of our staff critics, all of whom were part of the discussions and debates that went
0:56.6	into choosing this list. So what is this list? What is it that we're trying to do with it? And why
1:02.1	do we do it? Well the way we think of it here at the Book Review is like this. I think at least
1:06.4	and feel free to disagree with me later. There are many thousands of books published every year,
1:11.1	anyone who goes to any Barnes Noble or independent bookstore and looks at the front table every
1:16.8	week would know this. We read a lot of them here. We read more than most and I think honestly we
1:22.3	read more than almost anyone out there over the course of a year. And all that time in the back of
1:26.6	our minds we're looking for gems. We're looking for the gems, the ones that dazzle, the ones that we
1:31.5	cannot stop thinking about. We look for those books because we want to help you. We want to help
1:37.8	the readers of the New York Times figure out what to read, what's important, what is nourishing,
1:43.2	what is entertaining, what's going to last. We also look for the best because it's part of our
1:47.7	mission as a news organization. One that for 125 years has had this book review. We look for it
1:54.0	because it's our job to document the state of this art form, the state of this medium. Ideally we're
1:58.6	noting the pinnacle of literary achievements both for readers now but also and hopefully when we do
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