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Kate Atkinson on the Return of Jackson Brodie

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The Best Audiobooks of 2022, According to the New York Times

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The New York Times released its Best Audiobooks of 2022 list, adding it to its collection of end-of-year lists — which include best fiction and nonfiction , and the first ever best romance . The list includes books from other best-of lists, but adds a few other titles. There are nonfiction and fiction titles that will do everything from creep you out to provide a nuanced exploration of mortality.

Here are the best audiobooks of 2022, according to The New York Times :

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

Stay True bu Hua Hsu

Blood Orange Night by by Melissa Bond

Finding Me by Viola Davis

We Spread by Iain Reid

What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart

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22 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall

Essays by Ta-Nehisi Coates; memoirs by Alexei Navalny, Ina Garten and Cher; and dispatches from the mind of a Nobel laureate are among this season’s most anticipated offerings.

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As vacations wrap up and classes resume, trade in those sandy beach reads for more ambitious fare this fall. If you’re desperate for a break from politics — it is an election year, after all — look for dispatches from the mind of Orhan Pamuk, the latest humanistic work from Yuval Noah Harari and tell-alls by Connie Chung, Alex Van Halen and Lisa Marie Presley. If you’d rather lean into the political season, you might pick up biographies of John Lewis and Mitch McConnell or memoirs by Ketanji Brown Jackson, Alexei Navalny and Angela Merkel. Ta-Nehisi Coates returns with an essay collection on collective mythmaking, and an alarming account by Porter Fox warns of coming superstorms. Find these and others among our most anticipated nonfiction books of the fall.

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Lovely One , by Ketanji Brown Jackson

Jackson made history in 2022, when she became the first Black woman on the Supreme Court. Her memoir, named for the English translation of her name , traces not only her personal history but also that of her family, who endured generations of oppression in the segregated South.

Random House, Sept. 3

Category Five , by Porter Fox

A travel writer whose previous books explored shrinking snowpacks and the United States-Canada border , Fox is also a seasoned sailor. So it makes sense that his new book, which investigates why storms worldwide are becoming increasingly extreme, starts at sea. “A deep ocean storm does not pass overhead,” he writes. “It absorbs everything beneath it: islands, coastlines, boats, the sea itself.”

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