Here’s my list for the best books of the year, in three parts:
I.
The Auburn Conference Tom Piazza University of Iowa Press
Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments Joe Posnanski Dutton
Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel eds. Callaway
Our Strangers Lydia Davis Bookshop.org distr by Microcosm What Goes On in a Beaver Pond Becky Cushing Gop Storey Press. Be: An Alphabet of Astonishment Michael Lipson Lorian Press
II.
Published in 2022, but I didn’t find out about them until this calendar year
Women Holding Things Maira Kalman HarperCollins Cat Brushing Jane Campbell Grove Press
III.
HONORABLE MENTION
Red Balcony Jonathan Wilson Schocken Books The Shadow Docket Stephen Vladeck Basic Bookser
Hidden Demons Margery Metzger Wildblue Press
