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Goodreads Staffers Share the Top Books They Read in 2022
Here at Goodreads World Headquarters, we tend to read a lot of books. Like, a lot a lot. And every December, as we finish up our respective Reading Challenges, we ask our colleagues a simple question: What were your three favorite books that you read this year?
It's a nice tradition, and every year we got back an intriguing array of fiction and nonfiction, big hits and hidden gems, old favorites and new adventures. For keen-eyed repeat readers of this particular column, yes, Heino Colyn really does revisit Hackers (based off the 1995 cyberpunk film) every single year! We checked!
There’s always a lot to love in our annual collection, and this time around there is truly something for everyone—romance, fantasy, thrillers, eco-science, memoirs, sci-fi, queer fiction, horror, humor, historical fiction… Pretty much everything, really. Alchemists and Anxious People. Legends and Luminaries. And, naturally, Book Lovers.
Now it's your turn! What are your top three books of the year? Please share them with us in the comments!
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Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne and The Guncle by Steven Rowley
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Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towels. Difficult to choose only three though!
We’ve got this: Stories by disabled parents Eliza Hull,The complete Maus Art Spiegelman, The storyteller Dave Grohl.
The Last Summer on State Street by Tonya Wolfe, The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
True Biz, I Must Betray You and Demon Copperhead
When We Lost Our HeadsThe Books of Jacob
Vagabonds!
Sea of Tranquility
The Spear Cuts Through Water
Mount Chicago
Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
Will Do Magic for Small Change
Thrust
The Winners
Never Name The Dead, by DM RowellA Whisper of Solace, by Milena McKay
The Clothes Make the Man, by Finnish Burnett
The Bearded Lady, by Allison Landa
I have two of the books and I saw them on my YouTube channel lacey good books
📖Edgar and Lucy📖The Winners
📖West With Giraffes
Young MungoNotes on an Execution
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Breakfast At Cannibal Joe’s
The Drop
Nonfiction:
The Pope and Mussolini
We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland
Home in the World: A Memoir by Amartya Sen
The Vortex by Scott Carney and Jason Miklian
Red Line by Joby Warrick
The three best fiction would probably be Young Mungo, Notes on an Execution and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.I can’t narrow the nonfiction down two more, lol.
Tough decision! So.many good books this year.Black Cake, The Violin Conspiracy, and The Murder Of Mr Wickham.
The Trees by Percival EverettMecca by Susan Straight
The Candy House by Jennifer Egan
I love this, might be my favorite list you’ve shared!!
My top 3 books of 2022 are: 1. Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators’ Revolution
2. The Invisible Library
3. Spells for Forgetting
Some good recommendations above too which I will have to check out!
Les Misérables, The Bonfire of the Vanities, and Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy.
When We Lost Our Heads, Hello Molly, The Rabbit Hutch.
Ducks by Kate BeatonTomorrow, Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
Trust by Hernan Diaz
The Vanished Birds by Simon Jimenez
A Thousand Steps into Night by Traci Chee
I'm not finished yet obviously. I think one of my current reads is a contender, but for now, these would be my top three.Arm of the Sphinx
Legends & Lattes
Crooked Kingdom
1) The Turning Pointe2) True Biz
3) Delilah Green Doesn't Care
**Honorable Mention**
The List of Things That Will Not Change
The School for Good Mothers
My Summer Darlings
‘Tender is the flesh’ is right up there, possibly ‘I’m thinking of ending things’ and ‘the perfect child’, but ‘insomnia’ was so good as well!
Something to Hide by Elizabeth George, Spells for Forgetting by Adrienne Young and The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow. I've still got time to read even more and one may be a favorite!
Easy question this time because I had exactly 3 five-stars this year (so far)!This Is Our Rainbow: 16 Stories of Her, Him, Them, and Us
In Other Lands
The City Beautiful
dinosaurs, lydia millettashton hall, lauren belfer
the great passion, james runcie
Wow Book Lovers really took the crown huh? Lol. My favorite book of 2022 was I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy. Super raw, real and honest.
The Pump - Sydney Hegele If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin
Scarborough - Catherine Hernandez
Tami wrote: "The Last Summer on State Street by Tonya Wolfe, The House in The Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune, and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman"I absolutely loved Eleanor Oliphant and The Cerulean Sea so I guess I'll have to check out The Last Summer on State Street! And maybe I should check out your "read" list too.......
I am halfway through Demon Copperhead and LOVING it. I also really enjoyed Memphis.
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo, Poukahangatus: Poems by Tayi TibbleRunner ups are: No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull, Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, Wake, Siren: Ovid Resung by Nina MacLaughlin, You Better Be Lightning by Andrea Gibson, Ghosts of the Tsunami by Richard Lloyd Parry, Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Xhao, Touch of Power by Maria V. Snyder
Love on the brain, The midnight library, A thousand splendid suns, The Bromance bookclub, The Silent Patient, Act your age, Eve Brown, We should all be feminists, Dear ijeawele, After I do, A good girl's guide to murder
The Shining by Stephen King, Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune, So You Want to Talk about Race by Ijeoma Oluo
In no specific order....Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult
Lying Beside You(Cyrus Haven #3) by Michael Robotham
The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell
Hearts Invisible Furies by John BoyneShrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Lessons by Ian McEwan
1: Looking For Jane by Heather Marshall2:All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
3:The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
4:The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn
I think Staffer Kelli Padis is a fine judge of a good read! Love your choices! Might swap Still Life by Sarah Winman to trump “ The midnight Library” though
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss.The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy.
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson.
And a noteable mention:
It's Better To Be Feared By Seth Wickersham.
Our Wives Under The Sea by Julia ArmfieldThe This by Adam Roberts
Didn't Nobody Give A Shit What Happened To Carlotta by James
1. Lessons in chemistry. Eenheerlijk boek, ( met een luchtig gebrachte nog steeds hard nodige feministische boodschap) kan niet wachten op een nieuw boek van Bonny Garmus2. The cabin in the woods van Sarah Alderson. Een super spannende thriller
3. Were the crawdads sing van Delia Owens
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold KushnerThree Day Road by Joseph Boyden
Outside the Wire: The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants by Kevin Patterson and Jane Warren (editors)
I'm Canadian, and Three Day Road (fiction) and Outside the Wire (non-fiction) are both powerful Canadian books. With all three of these, there were times I had to pause and take a deep breath before continuing.
Cloud Cuckoo Land (Anthony Doerr)The Book of Form and Emptiness (Ruth Ozeki)
When We Lost Our Heads (Heather O'Neill)
2022 has been a stellar year for great reads, personally. My top three so far? Mmm? Don't Know Tough (Eli Cranor)
The Devil Takes You Home (Gabino Iglesias)
Blacktop Wasteland (S.A. Cosby)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, Twilight by Stephanie Meyer, and The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han.
