The Best Books of Fall 2022

Welcome back to the biggest season in books, dear readers. Fall is book publishing’s victory lap, when publishers roll out their biggest titles by their biggest literary prize-winners. That explains why this season’s line-up is such a murderers' row of huge names, like Stephen King, Annie Proulx, and Haruki Murakami. We’ve also got some bona fide literary events in the pipeline, like George Saunders’ first collection of short fiction in nearly a decade, and Cormac McCarthy returning with not one, but two novels after more than fifteen years of trademark seclusion.