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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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Now it's your turn! What were the three best books you read in 2022?
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This Is Assisted Dying by Stefanie GreenThe Myth Of Normal by Gabor Mate
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty
Properties of Thirst, Evidence of Things Unseen and the Shadow Catcher. All written by Marianne Wiggins, my new favorite writer.
When We Fell Apart, by Soon Wiley, Joan, The Personal Librarian.
Ways of Being: Beyond Human Intelligence by James BridleThe Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard
Soul Friends by Stephen Cope
Five Little Indians, Mad Honey, and The Lincoln Highway.
"Hester" by Laurie Lico Albanese"Trailed" by Kathryn Miles
"We Ride Upon Sticks" by Quan Barry
"Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow" by Gabrielle Zevin
1. Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens2. The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah
3. A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
4. The Rabbit Hutch by Tess Gunty
Read 35 books this year. My best: Demon Copperhead (Barbara Kingsolver), Young Mungo (Douglas Stuart) and The Yellow House (Sarah Broom).
Demon Copperhead, Trust, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Binocular Vision, Sea Of Tranquility, How To Find Your Way In The Dark
Paradox Hotel, by Rob HartDeacon King Kong, by James McBride
Crossroads, by Jonathan Franzen
Honorable Mention: The Sentence, by Louise Erdrich
So many good reads. The Diamond Eye and Sparks like Stars are my most recent reads that I enjoyed
This Is Happiness by Niall Williams, Still Life by Sarah Winman,
The Magician by Colm Tóibín,
The Door - Magda SzaboGirl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo
The Tsar of Love and Techno - Anthony Marra
Hard to narrow to 3! Razorblade Tears by SA Cosby, Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt, and Fairy Tale by Stephen King.
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, Horse by Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles.
The Day the World Came to Town by DeFere, any book by Donna Leon, Midnight Library by Haig
Another great year of reading!Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
The Island of Missing Trees by Elif Shafak
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and They Both Die at The End by Adam Silvera
Project Hail Mary by Andy WeirBriefly, A delicious life by Nell Stevens
The Absolutist by John Boyne
I love this list!!! My favorites were The Last Flight, The Judge's List, and The Golden Couple,
It looks like I have very similar taste in books to Kelli. I've read all 3 of her favourite books of this year, and gave them all 5 stars. I read 2 of them last year though. My top three of this year (so far, and which were not rereads) is probably:
Piranesi by Suzanna Clarke
Sea of Tranquility by Emily St John Mandel
Song of Achillies by Madeline Miller
Catching Fire, A Court of Mist and Fury, and Love Comes Softly
The LionessThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
Lucy By The Sea
The Lincoln Highway, Amore Towles…Stars to Infinity…Like The 4th of July…🎆🎆🎆The Paper Palace, Miranda Cowley Heller…. The Ending..think and discuss
A Visit From The Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan..A prize winner for me,
A workout for your brain
Best books for me in 2022 were The Destructionists, The Mountains Sing, The Ride of Her Life & Solito.
West With Giraffes, Lessons in Chemistry, Becoming Trader Joe.
Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie GarmusThe Lincoln Highway by Amore Towles
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Top three:The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Five Little Indians by Michelle Good
It Ends With Us by Coleen Hoover
The Saints of Swallow Hill by Donna EverhartLetters Across The Sea by Genevieve Graham
Where The Lost Wander by Amy Harmon
Favorite re-read: Rush Home Road by Lori Lansens
Anthem by Ayn Rand, The Creature from Jekyll Island by G. Edward Griffin, and Glory Road by Robert A. Heinlein
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie PostLessons in Chemistry
The Paris Bookseller
Crying in H Mart, Hell of a Book, Africa is Not a Country, Finding Me, and Barred - these I still think about
I couldn't narrow it down to only three! The Reading List - Sara Nisha Adams
Refined - Tracie Breaux
The Essay - Robin Yocum
Cloud Cuckoo Land - Anthony Doerr
The Christie Affair - Nina de Gramont
The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka, The Boys: A Memoir of Hollywood and Family by Ron Howard and Clint Howard, and I Am Not a Wolf by Daniel James Sheehan.
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. It is hard to pick three.
Horse by Geraldine BrooksWest with Giraffes by Linda Rutledge
Mad Honey by Jody Piccault & Jennifer Finn Boylan
So many favorite books! The Sentence
The Marriage Portrait
The Book of Colours
Lessons in Chemistry
Lucy by the Sea
The Gilded Page
Fresh Water for Flowers
Sakhalin by Graham E. E. BaileyThe It Girl by Ruth Ware
The Boys from Biloxi by John Grisham
1) The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.2) Not on My Watch: How a Renegade Whale Biologist Took on Governments and Industry to Save Wild Salmon by Alexandra Morton
3) Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment by Stephanie Seneff
These Ghosts are Family, by Maisy Card Beartown, Fredrick Backman
Seven Lives of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Mountain Shadow by Gregory David Roberts; Rules of Civility by Amor Towles; The Vanishing Hale by Brit Bennett
The Midnight LibraryThe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
The 100 Years of Lenni and Margot
West With Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge, Extraordinary Life of Sam He'll by Dugoni and Remarkable Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt. So hard to choose!
Piranesi - Susannah ClarkStoner - John Williams
The Dutch House - Ann Patchett
'Like A House On Fire' by Cate Kennedy, 'The Land Girls' by Victoria Purman, and 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' (last one's generic I know but I spent most of my energy this year re-reading the Harry Potter series so it had to get on this list since I didn't read much else)
Babel by RF KuangOverboard by Sara Paretsky
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
also:
Wayfarer and Monk/Robot series by Becky Chambers
Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
The Sentence, Louise Erdrich
Beneath a Scarlet Sky, Mark Sullivan