The list includes a mix of fiction and nonfiction titles, with topics that range from colonialism to memoirs centering friendships. Among the authors are a Nobel Prize winner and a Kirkus Prize winner. Here are The Washington Post’s Best Books of 2022: Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver Mecca by Susan Straight Trust by Hernan Diaz Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart Constructing a Nervous System by Margo Jefferson G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century by Beverly Gage The Petroleum Papers: Inside the Far-Right Conspiracy to Cover Up Climate Change by Geoff Dembicki Stay True by Hua Hsu Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind by Robert Draper Find more news and stories of interest from the book world in Breaking in Books.