NYPL's Best Books of 2022: Accessible Versions with BARD & Bookshare Links
The New York Public Library is pleased to announce its Best Books of 2022 for kids, teens, and adults! Many of these books are available in one or more accessible formats, as linked below.
If you find it hard to read standard print, The New York Public Library’s Andrew Heiskell Library provides free access to talking books, talking book players, braille, a talking book download website and a free talking book and e-braille app for mobile devices. Learn more and apply.
Note: DB = available on BARD in talking book format and as a mailable talking book. These formats are available through the links, or you can call us at 212-206-5400 to order a physical copy through the mail. Some titles are available through Bookshare and can be found through the Bookshare (BK) link under that title. All Heiskell members can gain access to Bookshare for free.
DB (digital talkingbook) / BK (Bookshare)
Adults
The Appeal by Janice Hallett BK
Black Boy Smile: A Memoir in Moments by D. Watkins BK
A Caribbean Heiress in Paris by Adriana Herrera DB, BK
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes DB, BK
Delilah Green Doesn't Care by Ashley Herring Blake DB, BK
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery by Casey Parks BK
Diary of a Void by Emi Yagi BK
Did Ye Hear Mammy Died?: A Memoir by Séamas O'Reilly BK
Didn't Nobody Give a Shit What Happened to Carlotta by James Hannaham BK
Easy Beauty: A Memoir by Chloé Cooper Jones BK
Electric Idol by Katee Robert DB, BK
The Empress and the English Doctor: How Catherine the Great Defied a Deadly Virus by Lucy Ward BK
The Escape Artist: The Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz to Warn the World by Jonathan Freedland BK
Every Summer After by Carley Fortune DB, BK
The Fishermen and the Dragon: Fear, Greed, and a Fight for Justice on the Gulf Coast by Kirk Wallace Johnson BK
The Genesis of Misery by Neon Yang BK
Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi DB
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas DB, BK
Heartbreaker: A Hell's Belles Novel by Sarah MacLean BK
The High Desert: Black. Punk. Nowhere—A Memoir by James Spooner BK
The Hookup Plan by Farrah Rochon DB, BK
How We Go High in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu DB, BK
The Hurting Kind: Poems by Ada Limón BK
I'll Be You by Janelle Brown BK
Just Like Home by Sarah Gailey BK
Kick the Latch by Kathryn Scanlan BK
Killers of a Certain Age by Deanna Raybourn DB, BK
The Kiss Curse by Erin Sterling BK
A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall DB, BK
Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett DB, BK
Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies: A Pies Before Guys Mystery by Misha Popp BK
The Man Who Could Move Clouds: A Memoir by Ingrid Rojas Contreras BK
Miss Chloe: A Memoir of a Literary Friendship with Toni Morrison by A.J. Verdelle BK
Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher DB
Never Name the Dead by D.M. Rowell BK
O by Zeina Hashem Beck BK
Ordinary Monsters by J. M. Miro DB, BK
The Other Dr. Gilmer: Two Men, a Murder, and an Unlikely Fight for Justice by Benjamin Gilmer BK
Path of Totality: Poems by Niina Pollari BK
Shutter by Ramona Emerson BK
Solito: A Memoir by Javier Zamora DB, BK
The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human by Siddhartha Mukherjee BK
The Stand-Up Groomsman by Jackie Lau BK
Stay Awake by Megan Goldin DB, BK
The Trees Witness Everything by Victoria Chang BK
Vladimir by Julia May Jonas DB, BK
What Is Otherwise Infinite: Poems by Bianca Stone BK
When They Tell You to Be Good: A Memoir by Prince Shakur BK
The White Mosque: A Memoir by Sofia Samatar BK
You're Invited by Amanda Jayatissa BK
Teens
All My Rage by Sabaa Tahir DB, BK
And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems by Erica Martin BK
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh BK
Breathe and Count Back from Ten by Natalia Sylvester BK
Burn Down, Rise Up by Vincent Tirado BK
Confessions of an Alleged Good Girl by Joya Goffney BK
Does My Body Offend You? by Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt DB, BK
The Getaway by Lamar Giles BK
A Girl's Guide to Love and Magic by Debbie Rigaud BK
The Girl Who fell Beneath the Sea by Axie Oh BK
Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White DB, BK
The History of the Computer: People, Inventions, and Technology that Changed Our World by Rachel Ignotofsky DB, BK
The Honeys by Ryan La Sala BK
I Must Betray You by Ruta Sepetys DB, BK
I Rise by Marie Arnold BK
The Last Session Vol. 1: Roll for Initiative by Jasmine Walls; illustrated by Dozerdraws BK
The Lesbiana's Guide to Catholic School by Sonora Reyes BK
The Life and Crimes of Hoodie Rosen by Isaac Blum BK
The Lost Dreamer by Lizz Huerta BK
Love Radio by Ebony LaDelle BK
The Luminaries by Susan Dennard DB, BK
Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams DB, BK
Murder Among Friends: How Leopold and Loeb Tried to Commit the Perfect Crime by Candace Fleming DB, BK
Our Crooked Hearts by Melissa Albert DB, BK
Queen of the Tiles by Hanna Alkaf DB, BK
Queer Ducks (and Other Animals): The Natural World of Animal Sexuality by Eliot Schrefer; illustrated by Jules Zuckerberg DB, BK
Respect the Mic: Celebrating 20 Years of Poetry from a Chicagoland High School edited by Hanif Abdurraqib, Franny Choi, Peter Kahn & Dan "Sully" Sullivan BK
Rust in the Root by Justina Ireland BK
The Silence that Binds Us by Joanna Ho BK
So This Is Ever After by F.T. Lukens BK
Summer's Edge by Dana Mele BK
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas BK
Survive the Dome by Kosoko Jackson BK
TJ Powar Has Something to Prove by Jesmeen Kaur Deo DB, BK
Unequal: A Story of America by Michael Eric Dyson & Marc Favreau DB, BK
Victory. Stand!: Raising My Fist for Justice by Tommie Smith, Derrick Barnes & Dawud Anyabwile BK
The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson BK
What the Fact?: Finding the Truth in All the Noise by Dr. Seema Yasmin BK
When the Angels Left the Old Country by Sacha Lamb BK
Kids
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood with Greg Dawson BK
Aviva vs. the Dybbuk by Mari Lowe BK
Bathe the Cat by Alice B. McGinty; illustrated by David Roberts BK
Beauty Woke by NoNieqa Ramos; illustrated by Paola Escobar BK
Breda's Island by Jessie Ann Foley BK
The Civil War of Amos Abernathy by Michael Leali BK
The Clackity by Lora Senf; illustrated by Alfredo Cáceres BK
Does a Bulldozer Have a Butt? by Derick Wilder; illustrated by K-Fai Steele BK
The Door of No Return by Kwame Alexander BK
A Duet for Home by Karina Yan Glaser BK
Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson BK
Gibberish by Young Vo BK
Gigi and Ojiji by Melissa Iwai BK
I Hate Borsch! by Yevgenia Nayberg BK
How to Build a Human: In Seven Evolutionary Steps by Pamela S. Turner; illustrated by John Gurche BK
In the Beautiful Country by Jane Kuo BK
In the Key of Us by Mariama J. Lockington BK
The Last Mapmaker by Christina Soontornvat BK
Last Week by Bill Richardson; illustrated by Emilie Leduc BK
Maizy Chen's Last Chance by Lisa Yee BK
Moonwalking by Zetta Elliott & Lyn Miller-Lachmann BK
Nothing Special by Desiree Cooper; illustrated by Bec Sloane BK
The Ogress and the Orphans by Kelly Barnhill BK
Pizza!: A Slice of History by Greg Pizzoli DB
The Second Chance of Benjamin Waterfalls by James Bird BK
Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration by Elizabeth Partridge; illustrated by Lauren Tamaki BK
Shot Clock by Caron Butler & Justin A. Reynolds BK
Star Child: A Biographical Constellation of Octavia Estelle Butler by Ibi Zoboi BK
The Stars Did Wander Darkling by Colin Meloy; illustrated by Carson Ellis BK
The Tiltersmith by Amy Herrick BK
Troublemaker by John Cho with Sarah Suk BK
Troublemakers in Trousers: Women and What They Wore to Get Things Done by Sarah Albee; illustrated by Kaja Kajfež BK
Tumble by Celia C. Pérez BK
Unfadeable by Maurice Broaddus BK
The Visitors by Greg Howard BK
Wednesday and Woof #1: Catastrophe by Sherri Winston; illustrated by Gladys Jose BK
When Winter Robeson Came by Brenda Woods BK
Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor by Xiran Jay Zhao BK