New York Times "Best of '22" Lists

BEST TV SHOWS

• Abbott Elementary (ABC)

• Atlanta (FX)

• Better Call Saul (AMC)

• Better Things (FX)

• The Good Fight (Paramount+)

• Los Espookys (HBO)

• What We Do in Shadows (FX)

• High School (Freevee)

• The Jan. 6 Committee Hearings

• Killing It (Peacock)

• P-Valley (Starz)

• My Brilliant Friend (HBO)

BEST MOVIES

• EO (theatres)

• Petite Maman (Hulu)

• Nope (most platforms)

• No Bears (theatres)

• Kimi (HBO)

• The Eternal Daughter (theatres)

• Happening (most platforms)

• Decision to Leave (theatres)

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (theatres)

BEST SONGS

• The Smile, ‘The Opposite’

• Lucrecia Dalt, ‘Atemporal’

• Big Thief, ‘Simulation Swarm’

• Ice Spice, ‘Munch (Feelin’ U)’

• Jamila Woods, ‘Boundaries’

• Giveon, ‘Lie Again’

• Jessie Reyez, ‘Mutual Friend’

• Caroline Polachek, ‘Billions’

• Stormzy, ‘Firebabe’

• Oren Ambarchi, ‘I’

• Beyoncé, ‘Alien Superstar’

• Taylor Swift, ‘Anti-Hero’

• Florence + the Machine, ‘Free’

BEST ALBUMS

• Beyoncé, ‘Renaissance’

• Rosalía, ‘Motomami’

• Beth Orton, ‘Weather Alive’

• iLe, ‘Nacarile’

• Björk, ‘Fossora’

• Billy Woods, ‘Aethiopes’

• Bonnie Raitt, “Just Like That…”

• Tyler Childers, “Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven?”

• Florence + the Machine, ‘Dance Fever’

• Miranda Lambert, ‘Palomino’

BEST BOOKS

The Candy House: Jennifer Egan

Checkout 19: Claire-Louise Bennett

Demon Copperhead: Barbara Kingsolver

The Furrows: Namwali Serpell

Trust: Hernan Diaz

An Immense World - How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us: Ed Yong

Stay True - A Memoir: Hua Hsu

Strangers to Ourselves - Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us: Rachel Aviv

Under the Skin - The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation: Linda Villarosa

We Don’t Know Ourselves: Fintan O’Toole

BEST PODCASTS

‘Articles of Interest: American Ivy’

‘I Was Never There’

‘Legacy of Speed’

‘Not Lost’

‘Pivot’

‘Reveal: After Ayotzinapa’

‘Rumble Strip’

‘Unexplainable’

‘Vibe Check’

‘Welcome to Provincetown’