My 2022 reading list

The 10 best books I read this year plus 75 others

I suppose if I had to put it into words, reading is my purest pleasure. It’s something I do just for me, with no complicated feelings or agenda attached.

Of course I also enjoy being a mom, drinking a nice glass of wine, hiking, yoga, etc., but they all cost me something—the ability to live without a small person coughing directly into my eye, for example.

A good book makes me happy and needs nothing from me.

This year I set a goal of reading 85 books. I hit my goal, plus a few I didn’t finish, which I won’t list here.

My top 10 favorite books of 2022:

1. The Great Circle

2. Vladimir

3. How We Go High in the Dark

4. Remarkably Bright Creatures

5. Sea of Tranquility

6. Black Cake

7. The Rose Code

8. Once There Were Wolves

9. Ghosts

10. Young Mungo

The other 75:

1. The Identicals

2. We Are Not Like Them

3. The Last Thing He Told Me

4. Daisy Jones & The Six

5. All the Ugly and Wonderful Things

6. Rock Paper Scissors

7. Bright Burning Things

8. Little Women

9. All Her Little Secrets

10. The Wife Upstairs

11. Firekeeper’s Daughter

12. Migrations

13. Apples Never Fall

14. The Paper Palace

15. Reckless Girls

16. This Might Hurt

17. The Paris Library

18. Everything I Know About Love

19. Billy Summers

20. Seven Days in June

21. The Little Paris Bookshop

22. The Children of Men

23. The Candy House

24. We Were Never Here

25. Violeta

26. The Unsinkable Greta James

27. The Paris Apartment

28. Book Lovers

29. The Color Purple

30. That Summer

31. Of Women and Salt

32. Beautiful Day

33. Girlhood

34. The Ugly Cry

35. Oh William!

36. Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance

37. One Two Three

38. The Shore

39. Infinite Country

40. Dark Matter

41. The Summer Place

42. Love Marriage

43. We Are the Brennans

44. Mexican Gothic

45. Modern Lovers

46. The Golden Couple

47. Wish You Were Here

48. The Many Daughters of Afong Moy

49. One Italian Summer

50. Between the Mountain and the Sky

51. Just Like Home

52. Upgrade

53. Maybe Someday

54. November 9

55. Sabrina & Corina

56. The Divorce Colony

57. The Lola Quartet

58. Carrie Soto is Back

59. The Lost Summers Of Newport

60. What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours

61. Trust

62. Count the Ways

63. Winter Storms

64. If You Could See the Sun

65. Radar Girls

66. Amy and Isabelle

67. Ugly Love

68. Year One

69. Full Dark, No Stars

70. The Fortunes of Jaded Women

71. The Family Game

72. Winter Street

73. Winter Solstice

74. Winter Stroll

75. The Book of Cold Cases

If you’d like to read what I read (English is so weird) in 2021, you can find that list here.

Happy reading.

xoxo

-Alison

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