And to All a Good Night

Our many thanks to you, our dear readers, members and patrons of The Center, our Bookstore, and our Café & Bar. We are so grateful for your support this and every year.

For our final newsletter in 2022, we offer you our own Top 40 bestselling books of the year, alphabetical by title. Happy holidays to all and see you in 2023.

Happy reading,
Melanie Fleishman
Buyer, The Center for Fiction Bookstore

• All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami
  Translated from the Japanese by Sam Brett & David Boyd
• The Anomaly by Hervé Le Tellier
  Translated from the French by Adriana Hunt
• Big Girl by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• The Black Period by Hafizah Augustus Geter
• Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head by Warsan Shire
• The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
• Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
• The Copenhagen Trilogy by Tove Ditlevsen
  Translated from the Danish by Tina Nunnally & Michael Favala Goldman
• damn near might still be is what it is by marcus scott williams
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Devil House by John Darnielle
• Doloriad by Missouri Williams
• Either/Or by Elif Batuman
• Happy Hour by Marlowe Granados
• If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Noor Naga
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Inciting Joy by Ross Gay
• Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh
• Lessons by Ian McEwan
• Liberation Day by George Saunders
• The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
• Mr. President by Miguel Ángel Asturias
• The Netanyahus by Joshua Cohen
• Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez
• The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
• Punks by John Keene
• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti
• Recitatif by Toni Morrison & Zadie Smith
• Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
  Translated from the Japanese by Margaret Mitsutani
• The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
• Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Spare Room by Helen Garner
• The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka
• Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong
• To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
• Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
• The Wall by Marlen Haushofer
  Translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside
• The Village of Eight Graves by Seishi Yokomizo
• The Years by Annie Ernaux
  Translated from the French by Alison L. Strayer
• Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart