After failing to do so for the last two years, I’ve gone through my books-read for the year & compiled a list of my favourite reads!
While doing this I also discovered that I’d missed putting four entire books on my master list that all should have been in my best-of list, so here’s the final top 22 (in no particular order)…
Matrix - Lauren Groff
My Dark Vanessa - Kate Elizabeth Russell
Echo - Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley
The Waiting - Keum Suk Gendry-Kim
Nightbitch - Rachel Yoder
The Glass Hotel - Emily St John Mandel
These Ghosts Are Family - Maisy Card
Greenwood - Michael Christie
Ghost Wall - Sarah Moss
A Master of Djinn - P. Djèli Clark
What is Home, Mum? - Sabba Khan
The Women of Troy - Pat Barker
The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina - Zoraida Córdova
Fevered Star - Rebecca Roanhorse
Blackfish City - Sam J. Miller
Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey
The Book of Form & Emptiness - Ruth Ozeki
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy - Becky Chambers
The Galaxy, And the Ground Within - Becky Chambers
Stormsong - C.L. Polk
Soulstar - C.L. Polk
If you want to look at all the books I read/re-read this year, you can see my entire messy googledoc list here!
Turns out that being absolutely terrible at managing a library holds list + feeling obliged to finish almost all the books I take out = reading the most I've ever read in a year (Total was also helped by a visit to the used bookstore in the town closest to my cottage + buying a huge stack of British mystery novels to devour during my time up north)??
Also, I'm always looking for book recommendations! What were your favourite reads of 2022? Are there exciting books you know are coming out in 2023/any books that you've got on your list for the new year (new or old pubs)? Please tell me them!!
*illustration at the top there is by me, from the book that I finished illustrating back in the summer...hopefully I'll have an idea of when that's coming out soon!