BookWorm’s Top 22 Books of 2022
5 Star Reads 1 – 11 4 Star reads 12 – 22
- The White Woman on the Green Bicycle by Monique Roffey
- Elena Knows by Claudia Piñeir
- Blood to Poison by Mary Watson
- The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
- A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
- Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies by Maddie Mortimer
- The Colony by Audrey Magee
- The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
- Lost in Time A G Riddle
- As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
- The Queen of Dirt Island by Donal Ryan
- The Trees by Percival Everett
- Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff
- Violeta by Isabel Allende
- Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
- The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
- How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
- Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave
- The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
- The Drunkard By Emile Zola
- Tomb of Sand by Geetanjali Shree
- To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara
And an honourable mention to the book I have just finished The Stranger Times by C.K McDonnell review coming soon…
Whittling down the 4 star reads was hard work so many good books read in 2022 here’s hoping 2023 is just as good if not better!
Let us know your favourite books of 2022
If forced to choice my Book of the Year would have to be Elena Knows such a powerful story.
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I chose the 5-star reads of 2022 for my list, then categorized them. In random order within category:
Mystery/Thriller
77 Clocks, by Christopher Fowler (Bryant & May: Peculiar Crimes Unit series)
The Paper Moon, by Andrea Camilleri (Inspector Montalbano series)
The Man Who Died Twice, by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club series)
The Tenant, by Katrine Engberg, Tara Chace (Translator) (Kørner and Werner series)
The Trees, by Percival Everett
Billy Summers, by Stephen King
The Bullet That Missed, by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club series)
The Old Man, by Thomas Perry
Parting Shot, by Linwood Barclay
Fantasy, SciFi, Magical Realism, Horror
The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley (The Watchmaker of Filigree Street series)
The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd
A Master of Djinn, by P. Djèlí Clark (Dead Djinn Universe series)
The Hunted, by Jeff Wheeler (The Dawning of Muirwood series)
How High We Go in the Dark, by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Project Hail Mary, by Andy Weir
The Monsters We Defy, by Leslye Penelope
Such Sharp Teeth, by Rachel Harrison
Contemporary Fiction
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra
The Reading List, by Sara Nisha Adams
Fight Night, by Miriam Toews
Notes on an Execution, by Danya Kukafka
Anxious People, by Fredrik Backman
The Last Resort, by Jan Carson
Nonfiction
On Animals, by Susan Orlean
The Book of Joy, by Dalai Lama XIV, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Carlton Abrams
The Anthropocene Reviewed, by John Green
Fuzz, by Mary Roach
Historical Fiction
The Phantom Tree, by Nicola Cornick
Lessons in Chemistry, by Bonnie Garmus
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Great list and some books to ad to the TBR
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I’ve just ordered Elena Knows 🥰 and loved How Beautiful We Were!
Here’s a link to my top 5 fiction & nonfiction, plus my One Outstanding Read of the Year was Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk.
https://clairemcalpine.com/2023/01/01/top-reads-of-2022/
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I loved Drive Your Plow when I read it a few years ago great book
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My Best Read of the Year was Tomb of Sand; fabulous read. For the remainder of my list please go to https://wordpress.com/post/thebooksmithblog.wordpress.com/1522 for my mid-Dec post, 2022 Books of the Year.
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Great choice
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Brilliant list! I really lovedTomb of sand when I read it last year and you reminded me that I want to read of paradise. Have a lovely new year! He’s my list of my top 22 books of 2022 ☺️ https://hundredsandthousandsofbooks.blog/2022/12/29/my-top-22-books-of-2022/
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