Shopping lists, wish lists, best-of-2022 lists—it's that time of the year again! And this week marks the arrival of one of our favorites, the New York Times 10 Best Books of 2021, selected by editors at The New York Times Book Review. This year we were particularly excited to see that two of the chosen titles were 2022 selections for our Signed First Edition Club—The Candy House by Jennifer Egan and The Furrows by Namwali Serpell. Shop the New York Times list here on harvard.com, and learn more about our Signed First Edition Club, which delivers a new literary treasure to your shelves every month (we have gift subscriptions too!). 

For more prize winners and best-of-the-year lists, browse

• The 2022 National Book Award Finalists
• (and here are the six winners)
• The 2022 Booker Prize Finalists
• (and the winner, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka)
• A Selection of Titles by the Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux
• The 2022 Best American Series
• (including the best Short Stories, Essays, and more)
• The 2022 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Monday, December 5, 7PM ET

Heather Radke—essayist, journalist, and contributing editor and reporter at Radiolab—discusses Butts: A Backstory. Joining in conversation is Lulu Miller—cohost of Radiolab and Peabody Award–winning science journalist. Online via Zoom. Learn more.

Tuesday, December 6, 6:30PM

Peter Guralnick—Grammy-winning biographer of Elvis Presley, Sam Cooke, and Sam Phillips—discusses The Birth of Rock 'n' Roll: The Illustrated Story of Sun Records and the 70 Recordings That Changed the World. Joining in conversation is author and musician Bill Janovitz. Masks recommended; masks required to join the signing line. Learn more.

Tuesday, December 6, 7PM

Henriette Lazaridis—Boston Globe bestselling author of The Clover House—discusses her new novel Terra Nova, the story of two Antarctic explorers and a woman with her own ambitions who loves them both. Joining in conversation is award-winning local author Marjan Kamali. Masks required. Join us.

Wednesday, December 7, 6PM

Stephanie Burt—professor of English at Harvard University and poetry co-editor at the Nation—discusses her new poetry collection We Are Mermaids. Joining in conversation is poet and novelist Laura Kasischke. Masks required. Join us.

Thursday, December 8, 7PM

Award-winning author Ellen Cassedy—founder of the 9 to 5 Organization of Women Office Workers in Boston that inspired the Hollywood box office hit and the famed Dolly Parton song—discusses Working 9 to 5: A Women's Movement, a Labor Union, and the Iconic Movie. Masks required. Join us.

Friday, December 9, 7PM

D. T. Max—staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace—discusses Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim. Joining in conversation is Christopher Ehlers—treasurer of the Boston Theater Critics Association and the associate arts editor for DigBoston. Masks required. Join us.

This week you'll find fall releases from Cambridge University Press in our Publisher Focus window. The Cambridge Centenary Ulysses helps readers to understand the pleasures of this monumental work and to grapple with its challenges. Pulp Vietnam explores how men's adventure magazines helped shape the attitudes of young, working-class Americans, the same men who fought and served in the long and bitter war in Vietnam. Understanding Race embarks on a consideration of how racial classifications have been applied to genomic studies. On Jazz is a vivid and fascinating up-close encounter with jazz, brim-full of anecdotes and personal reminiscence, by an internationally known broadcaster and writer. Find these and more fascinating new titles in our window and here on harvard.com.

In case you missed it, we're currently accepting orders for What If? 2, the #1 New York Times bestselling book by xkcd creator Randall Munroe, signed and personalized by the author.

The order deadline is this Monday, December 5, so place your order today using this exclusive link: harvard.com/whatif2. 

In case you missed it, check out our latest "New This Week" newsletter, and come browse our virtual New Arrivals shelves for all the very latest new books, updated every Tuesday. Our Holiday Hundred picks for gift-giving this season are 20% off for Frequent Buyer Card members. And on a monthly basis, we recommend dozens of recently published featured titles, plus members of our Signed First Edition Club receive a new book of great literary merit, selected by our staff.