Hoping to find a few hours over the upcoming holidays to curl up with a good new book? Well, there’s no shortage of recommendations or newly published books to entice you! For a roundup of some of the most lauded books of 2022, take a look at the list, along with book reviews, of every book just nominated for the National Book Award. Whether you’re into fiction, non-fiction, memoir, poetry, or foreign literature, you’ll find the best of the best on this list. Similarly, The New Yorker has kept a running list of the best books of 2022, and you can find the latest iteration here. Or check out the Wall Street Journal’s (paywall) list of the best books (and podcasts) of 2022 about aging and retirement. 

If you’re not necessarily in need of new books but rather the tried and true tomes, check out this recent list of the top 50 favorite American books. Or, if looking to lighten your perspective with some humor this holiday season, consider this list of 6 books that help you navigate the challenges of life with humor, including classics by Erma Bombeck and Nora Ephron.

Finally, for some individual book recommendations, take a look at the new book by Cleveland Clinic Chief Wellness Officer Dr. Michael Roizen, who recently co-authored The Great Age Reboot: Cracking the Longevity Code for a Younger Tomorrow. With practical advice for good brain, body, and financial health in order to help you navigate the new longevity we may all experience, Roizen also offers an app to help you implement and track his practical advice. And speaking of longevity, you may be aware of 57-year-old model Paulina Porizkova, the Czech American woman who was married for decades to rock star Ric Ocasek of The Cars and now finds herself widowed and occasionally whining about no longer being visible in the public sphere. She has become a provocateur with her public Instagram postings. And she has just released a book entitled, No Filter: The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful. From her youth in a communist country to her perch as a high fashion model and wife of rock royalty, to a more nuanced life and perspective as a now older woman, Porizkova has become a champion of older women in her new public persona. Find out more about her life and her book by reading an interview with her here. And if you’re a Home Shopping Network fan, you may already be familiar with the “Jean Queen,” Diane Gilman. Celebrated for the fashionable jeans and apparel she sells on HSN, Gilman has a new book coming out on November 29th called Too Young to Be Old: How to Stay Vibrant, Visible, and Forever in Blue Jeans: 25 Secrets from TV’s Jean Queen. With candor and humor, Gilman shares her insights and experiences as a fashionable older woman who has survived cancer, albeit one who’s sold over 19 million pairs of jeans. Find out more about Diane and her fashion career on her Facebook page here.