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  1. best of 2022
    The Best Horror Novels of 2022In the mood for some transgressive splatterpunk?
    By Emily C. Hughes
  2. best of 2022
    The Best Comedy Books of 2022This year’s books all seemed to take on a particular tenor, ready for a comedy evolution still in progress.
    By Brian Boone
  3. must reads
    6 New Books You Should Read This DecemberA Marguerite Duras novel translation, a collection of post-Maria Puerto Rican art, an anthology of the late music site Cokemachineglow, and more.
    By J. Howard Rosier
  4. best of 2022
    The Best Memoirs of 2022The blending of personal history with careful analysis of the cultural forces and institutions that inform it has exploded the genre with possibility.
    By Arianna Rebolini
  5. best of 2022
    The Best Fantasy Novels of 2022From dark academia to mythological retellings to epic journeys, the best fantasy of the year comes in all shapes and sizes.
    By Emily C. Hughes
  7. close reads
    Carol Is Not the Romance of Your MemesTodd Haynes’s drama gets embraced online in a manner that doesn’t jibe with the nature of its story.
    By Frankie de la Cretaz
  8. book wars
    Penguin Random House CEO Says ‘See Ya’Markus Dohle, the biggest randomista of all.
    By Rebecca Alter
  9. emergency discussion
    How Is His Dark Materials Going to Pull This Off?The series’ final season takes on the difficult task of translating many heady, absurd, and arguably heretical elements from The Amber Spyglass.
    By Roxana Hadadi, Jackson McHenry, and Kathryn VanArendonk
  10. going analog
    Patti Smith’s Worldview Finds a New Format in the Beautiful A Book of DaysThe punk icon’s visual artistry is on full display in her new photography collection.
    By Caryn Rose
  11. book review
    Kathy Acker Wanted EverythingEat Your Mind, a new biography of the writer and punk feminist icon, is both maddening and compulsively readable.
    By Sarah Chihaya
  12. comics
    Los Bros Hernandez on Love and Rockets’ Most Memorable Women and Forgettable Men“As I was writing that story, I was thinking, This is not good. But I let it go because I knew it would have an effect on readers.â€
    By Heidi MacDonald
  13. disrespect the classics
    Bob Dylan Hopes to ‘Rectify’ Book-Signature Controversy ‘Immediately’After Simon & Schuster offered refunds for $599 auto-signed editions of his new book.
    By Justin Curto
  14. encounter
    Allie Rowbottom Is No Botox MoralistHer new novel, Aesthetica, is a deft horror story about how far we can take our clout-chasing.
    By Brock Colyar
  15. booktok
    Big on BookTok: What Happens When an Unexpected Audience Embraces Your WorkChelsea Summers never expected her novel, about a menopausal food critic who kills and eats her ex-lovers, to find a wellspring of Gen-Z enthusiasm.
    By Chelsea G. Summers
  16. profile
    The Spectacular Life of Octavia E. ButlerThe story of the girl who grew up in Pasadena, took the bus, loved her mom and grandmother, and wrote herself into the world.
    By E. Alex Jung
  17. first person
    The Butler Journal Entry I Always Return ToThis page of the author’s journal is riveting for how it upends any tradition of shame around a relentless desire for success.
    By Hanif Abdurraqib
  18. close reads
    Misreading Octavia ButlerThe slavery interpretation the author couldn’t escape.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  19. books
    How to Write Like Octavia E. ButlerA few artists on how the author’s work has inspired them.
    As told to Mary Retta
  20. glamorous jobs
    Passion Doesn’t Pay the BillsHarperCollins employees strike for a fair contract in an industry notorious for underpaying and overworking its staff.
    By Sophie Vershbow
  21. books
    Hilary Duff Calls Aaron Carter’s Posthumous Memoir ‘Unverified Clickbait’The memoir’s publication has been delayed, “out of respect for the Carter family.â€
    By Alejandra Gularte
  22. trailer mix
    Nothing in Life Is Promised Except an Elena Ferrante Screen AdaptationThe Lying Life of Adults, the dreamy Netflix series adapting the author’s latest novel, arrives on January 4.
    By Zoe Guy
  23. close reads
    The Velveteen Rabbit Was Always More Than a Children’s BookWritten for her daughter, Margery Williams Bianco’s hundred-year-old story is a memorial to what we all lose in exchange for adulthood.
    By Andrea Long Chu
  24. the way of reading
    A Scrapped Avatar Sequel Is Becoming a Graphic NovelSorry movie fans, you’ll have to read this one.
    By Alejandra Gularte
  25. must reads
    6 New Books You Should Read This NovemberIncluding an unconventional spy novel, a self-conscious ode to Stephen Sondheim, and the origin story of Legos.
    By J. Howard Rosier
  26. celebrity on celebrities
    Here’s What Matthew Perry Has to Say About Various Celebrities in His MemoirThe Keanu Reeves stuff is just the tip of the iceberg.
    By Jason P. Frank
  27. letters home
    Cecilia Gentili Opens Her Burn BookWith her scathing new memoir, Faltas, the artist and policy advocate chronicles childhood experiences with rape, transphobia, and colorism.
    By Harron Walker
  28. book review
    In Surrender, Bono Embraces His ContradictionsThe U2 frontman does not shy away from blunt self-reflection in his poetic and very Bono memoir.
    By Jen Chaney
  29. book wars
    Judge Shuts Book on Penguin Random House–Simon & Schuster MergerPenguin Random House has vowed to fight the ruling.
    By Victoria Bekiempis
  30. haunted houses
    Shirley Jackson Captured What Every Housewife Knows About Gothic HorrorThe late author conjured up the kind of hauntedness that only a homemaker acquainted with the complications of domestic comforts could imagine.
    By Kim Hew-Low
  31. chapters
    To Fix the Broken Game of Thrones Pilot, HBO Called on Its Secret WeaponThe blockbuster dragon show may have never taken flight if not for the efforts of a trusted fill-in director.
    By Felix Gillette and John Koblin
  32. respect the classics
    The 13 Best U2 Stories From Bono’s Memoir, SurrenderWe’ve found what you’re looking for.
    By Justin Curto
  33. chapters
    When Real Life Is Scarier Than a Slasher MovieThe Friday the 13th franchise soothed a queer kid growing up during the panic of the AIDS epidemic.
    By Grant Sutton
  34. vulture 10x10
    The West Side Puzzle16-Across, Five Letters: YOLO, to Drake circa 2012.
    By Stella Zawistowski
  35. so ‘90s
    Matthew Perry ‘Actually’ Likes Keanu Reeves, Despite What He Said in His Book“I should have just used my own name.â€
    By Jason P. Frank
  36. keeping up with the ex-royals
    Prince Harry’s Ready to Spill the Royal Tea in SpareThe tell-all memoir hits shelves January 10.
    By Zoe Guy
  37. vulture lists
    60 Page-to-Screen Adaptations to Add to Your 2022 Reading ListGuillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities and Pinocchio, She Said, and more.
    By Emily Maskell
  38. fire & blood
    House of the Dragon’s Biggest Book OmissionsSeven Fire & Blood details that could’ve made these characters’ bonds more tangible, their romances more sensual, and their losses more tragic.
    By Roxana Hadadi
  39. vulture guides
    A Guide to Stephen King Audiobooks Read by Stephen King ActorsFeaturing Kathy Bates, Sissy Spacek, Tim Curry, and more.
    By Zach Dionne
  40. ex-wife guy
    Jesse Eisenberg Summons Divorced-Man Energy for Fleishman Is in TroubleThe new trailer teases so many themes, topics, and ideas that it covers, well, “everything.â€
    By Zoe Guy
  41. cohorts rise
    Colleen Hoover, Belle of BookTok, Is Keeping Printers in BusinessSelling a record-breaking 800,000 copies of her new book in 24 hours.
    By Zoe Guy
  42. emoting
    Relentless Angst and Uniformly Excellent SexHow Colleen Hoover became the undisputed queen of BookTok.
    By Kayleigh Donaldson
  43. snape’s snipes
    Alan Rickman’s Decades-Old Diaries Are Still Hot GossSnape snipe snippets.
    By Rebecca Alter
  44. sexcerpt
    The Best Sex I’ve Ever Read: A Breastfeeding Housewife’s Nostalgic Lust“I often think of this passage from Bird because of how uncomfortable it made me,†says Three Women author Lisa Taddeo, “and how much I like that.â€
    By Lisa Taddeo
    As told to Natalie Villacorta
  45. sobriety
    Matthew Perry Spent $9 Million Getting SoberBut he is currently 18 months clean.
    By Jason P. Frank
  46. books
    Salman Rushdie Has Lost Use of One Hand, Lost Vision in One EyeHe is still recovering from the attack in August.
    By Bethy Squires
  47. adaptations
    ‘People Go Out, Come Back, Because It’s Too Much’Ivo van Hove’s staging of A Little Life immerses audience members in its main character’s suffering.
    By Jason P. Frank
  48. dr. mad-hatin’
    Who Watches the Watchmen? Not Alan MooreDamon Lindelof tried to appease the writer with a Dr. Manhattan–blue apron, which Moore found “embarrassing.â€
    By Rebecca Alter
  49. y2k
    Cameron Diaz Helped Harry Potter FlyWell, a photo of her on a green screen set did.
    By Wolfgang Ruth
  50. chapters
    ‘What Do I Really Know About the ’80s?’Ralph Macchio lived in a 1980s bubble, positioned too far inside the era to be well versed on the enduring nostalgia for it.
    By Ralph Macchio
  51. vulture lists
    Now That We’re All Epidemiologists, Here Are 9 Books to Further Your StudiesHistories of how we’ve handled viruses in the past that just might give a glimmer of hope for how we’ll respond when the next pandemic arrives.
    By David Vogel
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