#TopTenTuesday My Favourite Books of 2022

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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish and now hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl.

The rules are simple:

  • Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
  • Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to That Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
  • Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other bloggers’ lists.
  • Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is Favourite Books of 2022, a topic I both look forward to and dread because it’s always so difficult to choose, especially when you read over 150 books in a year! But, in no particular order, here they are. Links from the titles will take you to my review.

  1. Late City by Robert Olen Butler (No Exit)
  2. Lean on Me by Serge Joncour, trans. by Jane Aitken & Louise Rogers Lalaurie (Gallic Books)
  3. My Father’s House by Joseph O’Connor (published by Vintage on 26th January 2023)
  4. The Woman with the Map by Jan Casey (Head of Zeus/Aria)
  5. The Sunken Road by Ciaran McMenamin (Vintage)
  6. The White Girl by Tony Birch (Harper Collins)
  7. All the Broken Places by John Boyne (Doubleday)
  8. Think of Me by Frances Liardet (4th Estate)
  9. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd (Canongate)
  10. Devils and Saints by Jean-Baptiste Andrea, trans. by Sam Taylor (Gallic Books)

A big shout out to Vintage and Gallic Books for each having two of their books on my list (three for the latter if you include books on my supplementary list). And to Head of Zeus who have one on my main list but three on my supplementary list. Talking of which, here are those books that so very nearly made the main list:

The Swallowed Man by Edward Carey (Gallic Books)
The Bone Road by N.E. Solomons (Polygon)
The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph (Dialogue Books)
Mr Bunting at War by Robert Greenwood (Imperial War Museum)
The Coming Darkness by Greg Mosse (Moonflower Books)
The House of Birds by Morgan McCarthy (Tinder Press)
Essex Dogs by Dan Jones (Head of Zeus/Aries)
Katastrophe by Graham Hurley (Head of Zeus/Aries)
Seek the Singing Fish by Roma Wells (époque press)
Resurrection by David Gilman (Head of Zeus/Aries)

 

 

16 thoughts on “#TopTenTuesday My Favourite Books of 2022”

  1. Well, how about that. I haven’t read anything in either of your lists apart from The Night Ship, which I found atmospheric and compelling. But there are authors there I know I like, so by this time next year, perhaps I’ll have read some of these!

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