What are the BEST BOOKS you've read in 2022?

[hermetic]

This is a traditional pinned post for you to use to list the most outstanding books you read during the year of 2022. They don't have to be books that were published in 2022, just whatever books you've read in 2022 that you think are particularly noteworthy.

This post is to provide a handy place for people to find suggestions without having to search through hundreds of threads. The post for Best Books of 2021 has now been moved down thread.

Happy reading!

[SheltieLover]

1. David Rosenfelt's "Best in Snow" (play on words "best in show")

And "Dog Eat Dog."

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3. Best In Show

Just became available for me so I'll be reading that one soon enough.

[Ocelot II]

2. Braiding Sweetgrass, The Sentence, The Magician

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4. Braiding Sweetgrass

I bought that one to read later. It looks like it will be wonderful.

[Ocelot II]

5. It is! I loved it.

Really fascination discussion of Native philosophies, languages and relationship with nature.

[Ocelot II]

27. Braiding Sweetgrass for me, too.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

6. It's only the third day of this year.

Far too early to make that call.

[hermetic]

7. Oh, I know

It's always been put up at the beginning of the year. It'll just stay pinned up here all year for people to use. Tradition, ya know?

[Ocelot II]

9. I misread the OP and posted books I'd read in 2021. Haven't finished any

in 2022 yet.

[PBC_Democrat]

8. The Body by Bill Bryson

Just finished it for the 3rd time.

It's the only book I've ever read more than once.
Enjoyed it almost as much as the first time.

Bill Bryson has been one of my favorite authors for many years now.

Subtitle is A Guide for Occupants

Easily in the top three books I've read in my 55+ years of reading.

[bif]

14. One of my favorite authors!

I've read everything he's written!

[Staph]

10. I just finished The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles.

I can tell that it will be one of those books that sticks in my brain, that keeps resurfacing in the most pleasant of ways.

[hermetic]

11. That sounds lovely

A story of the heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris; this is an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family, and the power of literature to bring us together.

[AngryOldDem]

12. "Harlem Shuffle" by Carson Whitehead, for one.

[bif]

13. "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir

Quite the page turner! I did nothing but read it for two days over the holidays.

[pepperroxy]

15. Jack Reache

In the year 2022...I'm finally starting all the Jack Reacher books. So far so good!

[Brother Buzz]

16. I guarantee you'll get more out of the Reacher series if you watch this video first

[Demsrule86]

18. I love the Reacher books...and the series on Amazon I think...I also loved the movies.

[hermetic]

17. THE SENTENCE by Louise Erdrich

This is a profound and magical novel that has you laughing one minute and in tears the next, sometimes while you're still on the same page. Ms. Erdrich says she first came up with the title in 2014. "I gathered extraordinary sentences. healing sentences, sentences that were so beautiful that they brought people solace and comfort, also sentences for incarcerated people."

The story is about the life-transforming effect of literature and is filled with other book titles. I was trying to keep them all written down and now I find there's an appendix at the end which lists them all. The book also really epitomizes the trauma and craziness of 2020. Someday I will read this book again and say -this is what we went through.

"Books contain everything worth knowing except what ultimately matters."

[KPN]

19. Ha, I just finished The Sentence and looked up this thread to post it as my best for 2022 to date

and saw your post hermetic -- the very last and most recent one entered no less! Who would have thought? Almost stranger than fiction! Your description of the book is so apt, I won't add another word.

[hermetic]

21. Awesome!

And check this out. If you go to the OP below, What Fiction are you reading this week, October 9, 2022?, you will see a photo of the actual bookshop Louise was writing about. I picked that one this week for Indigenous People's Day.

[KPN]

26. Neat! Just saw this now. Still tyhe best book I've read this year.

[japple]

22. Barbara Kingsolver's, DEMON COPPERHEAD. I have read most of Barbara

Kingsolver's work and have followed her progress from the early days of The Bean Trees. Most of her readers seem to agree that Poisonwood Bible is her best work, although it is not among my favorites. The Lacuna was my favorite until this one. Her re-imagining of Charles Dickens' David Copperfield with the setting in 21st Century Appalachia is brilliant.

[yellowdogintexas]

23. so far (there are still 4 weeks left in the year)

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
The Marrying of Chani Kaufmann
The Plastic Magician
The Girl From The Mountains
The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

[hermetic]

24. That's an impressive list

Of course there's still time to add more.

The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken sounds amazing. Recommended to anyone looking for a personal way to connect with Ukraine's history.

[yellowdogintexas]

25. the fact that I read a lot of pure escapist books makes it pretty amazing

News Flash: I just picked up the sequel to Book Woman of Troublesome Creek on a one day only 80% discount at Amazon!!!
That will be my read for next week.