NPR’s ‘Books We Love’ site has officially released its best titles list for 2022. On it you’ll find RF Kuang’s Babel, of which The Guardian writes: “A fantastically made work, moving and enraging by turns, with an ending to blow down walls.” Read more about NPR’s take on Babel here. Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s The Daughter of Doctor Moreau is also on the list. Per The New York Times  “The imagination of Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a thing of wonder, restless and romantic, fearless in the face of genre, embracing the polarities of storytelling—the sleek and the bizarre, wild passions and deep hatreds—with cool equanimity.”

Read the full list here.