Image: Goodreads Year in Books 2022 – 166 Books read.
I read 166 books in 2022. Yes, some of them were shorter books: several middle-grade books and a few advanced review copies of picture books. Most were novels, though few were truly giant tomes. I really enjoyed most of them.
Which is to say, trying to pick the “top ten” was excruciating and an exercise doomed to failure. So… I cheated. Or rather, I modified the goal. Thus I present to you… my top 10 42 books read in 2022 (and even that is fudging things a bit as there are a few instances here of me using a single book to stand in for the entire series if I read the entire series in 2022 and didn’t want my list to balloon uncontrollably) organized like so:
- Top 18 (Non-Romance) Books read 2022
- Top 9 Romances read 2022
- Top 9 Nonfiction Books Read With Kiddo 2022
- Top 6 Fiction Books Read With Kiddo 2022
And just for funsies:
- Song of the Year 2022
I have linked to the goodreads page for each book (and the youtube page for the song). Obviously these are all recommendations as well.
Best (Non-Romance) Books read 2022
(Part 1)
- Siren Queen by Nghi Vo
- Babel by R.F. Kuang
- Where the Drowned Girls Go by Seanan McGuire
- What Souls are Made of by Tasha Suri
- Sabriel (trilogy) by Garth Nix
- Not Good for Maidens by Tori Bovalino
- Vows of Empire by Emily Skrutski
- Valiant Ladies by Melissa Grey
- Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
Best (Non-Romance) Books read 2022
(Part 2)
- A Consuming Fire by Laura E. Weymouth
- The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
- Of Charms, Ghosts, and Grievances by Aliette de Bodard
- A Scatter of Light by Malinda Lo
- A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
- Into the Riverlands (trilogy) by Nghi Vo
- Fraternity by Andy Mientus
- The Thousand Eyes by A.K. Larkwood
- One for All by Lillie Lainoff
Best Romances read 2022
- A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall
- The League of Gentlewomen Witches by India Holton
- Nobody’s Princess by Erica Ridley
- Something Fabulous by Alexis Hall
- The Perfect Crimes of Marian Hayes by Cat Sebastian
- Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
- Delilah Green Doesn’t Care by Ashley Herring Blake
- Paris Daillencourt is About to Crumble by Alexis Hall
- Love & Other Disasters by Anita Kelly
Best Nonfiction Books Read With Kiddo (8) 2022
- The Incredible yet True Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt: The Greatest Inventor-Naturalist-Scientist-Explorer Who Ever Lived by Volker Mehnert, Becky L. Cook (Translator)
- All in a Drop: How Antony van Leeuwenhoek Discovered an Invisible World by Lori Alexander
- Jane Goodall by Libby Romero
- Can You Hear the Trees Talking? by Peter Wohlleben
- Tree Beings by Raymond Huber
- Explorers: Amazing Tales of the World’s Greatest Adventurers by Nellie Huang
- The Mysteries of the Universe by Will Gater
- Darwin’s Rival: Alfred Russel Wallace and the Search for Evolution by Christiane Dorion
- When Darwin Sailed the Sea by David Long
Best Fiction Books Read With Kiddo (8) 2022
- Upside-Down Magic (series) by Sarah Mlynowski, Lauren Myracle, Emily Jenkins
- Fortunately the Milk by Neil Gaiman
- The Girl Who Could Not Dream by Sarah Beth Durst
- The Ship of Shadows by Maria Kuzniar
- The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman
- The Golden Swift by Lev Grossman
Aaaaaand, just for funsies:
Song of the Year 2022
- “Wild Flower (with Youjeen)“ by RM of BTS
Whimsical Dragonette 