Best Books of the Month | December 2022 Starred Reviews

Starred titles reviewed in our December 2022 print issue, spanning graphic novels, mystery and suspense, SF/fantasy, romance, and more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MYSTERY & SUSPENSE

Collins, Flora. A Small Affair. Mira: Harlequin. 

Croft, Rachel Koller. Stone Cold Fox. Berkley. 

Crombie, Deborah. A Killing of Innocents. Morrow. 

Ellison, J.T. It’s One of Us. Mira: Harlequin. 

Holmes, Rupert. Murder Your Employer. Avid Reader. 

Maxwell, Jessa. The Golden Spoon. Atria. 

Parks, Adele. One Last Secret. Mira: Harlequin. 

Raybourn, Deanna. A Sinister Revenge. Berkley. 

Tracy, P.J. The Devil You Know. Minotaur: St. Martin’s. 

Winters, Mary. Murder in Postscript. Berkley. 

SF/FANTASY

Bardugo, Leigh. Hell Bent. Flatiron. 

Brown, Ness. The Scourge Between Stars. Tor Nightfire. 

Cronin, Justin. The Ferryman. Ballantine. 

Dyachenko, Marina & Sergey Dyachenko. Assassin of Reality. Harper Voyager.

Elliott, Kate. Furious Heaven. Tor. 

Tesh, Emily. Some Desperate Glory. Tor.com. 

Utomi, Moses Ose. The Lies of the Ajungo. Tor.com. 

ROMANCE

Elliot, Amanda. Best Served Hot. Berkley. 

Jimenez, Abby. Yours Truly. Forever: Grand Central. 

Park, Suzanne. The Do-Over. Avon. 

HORROR

DiLouie, Craig. Episode Thirteen. Redhook: Orbit. 

FICTION

Deb, Siddhartha. The Light at the End of the World. Soho. 

Harding, Paul. This Other Eden. Norton. 

Jones, Dan. Essex Dogs. Viking. 

Lacey, Catherine. Biography of X. Farrar. 

Markley, Stephen. The Deluge. S. & S. 

Murray, Sabina. Muckross Abbey and Other Stories. Grove. 

Nguyen Phan Que Mai. Dust Child. Algonquin. 

Ryan, Donal. The Queen of Dirt Island. Viking. 

Shroff, Parini. The Bandit Queens. Ballantine. 

Stokes-Chapman, Susan. Pandora. Harper Perennial.

Thomas, Kai. In the Upper Country. Viking. 

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Harkham, Sammy. Blood of the Virgin. Pantheon. 

Ma, Yeong-shin. Artist. Drawn & Quarterly. 

Matejka, Adrian (text) & Youssef Daoudi (illus.). Last on His Feet. Liveright: Norton. 

ARTS & HUMANITIES

Andersen Brower, Kate. Elizabeth Taylor. Harper: HarperCollins. 

Banfield, William C. Musical Landscapes in Color. Univ. of Illinois. 

Blaisdell, Bob. Chekhov Becomes Chekhov. Pegasus. 

Freedom Moves. Univ. of California. 

Giacomazzo, Bernadette. In Living Color. Rowman & Littlefield. 

Harjo, Joy. Weaving Sundown in a Scarlet Light. Norton.

Hecht, Jennifer Michael. The Wonder Paradox. Farrar. 

Levy, Aidan. Saxophone Colossus. Hachette. 

Ó Tuama, Pádraig. Poetry Unbound. Norton. 

Schulman, Michael. Oscar Wars. HarperCollins. 

Thomson, David. Acting Naturally. Knopf. 

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Bennett, Todd. Neither Confirm nor Deny. Columbia Univ. 

Guerrero, Lisa. Warrior. Hachette. 

Hackman, Rose. Emotional Labor. Flatiron. 

Masters, Oksana. The Hard Parts. Scribner. 

Soni, Saket. The Great Escape. Algonquin. 

Wall, Meg Jones. Finding the Fool. Weiser. 

Woo, Ilyon. Master Slave Husband Wife. S. & S. 

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Hazard, Leah. Womb. Ecco. 

Muller, Eddie. Eddie Muller’s Noir Bar. Running Pr. 

Regan, Iliana. Fieldwork. Agate Midway. 

REFERENCE

Davis, Kenneth C. Great Short Books. Scribner. 

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