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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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Remarkably Bright Creatures, Lessons in Chemistry, The Anthropecene Reviewed
Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho, The Candy House by Jennifer Egan, and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O’Farrell
Project Hail MaryLessons in Chemistry
Apples Never Fall
I want to become book buddies with Yvonne Garton… you have great taste!! Lol
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman; Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel; Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah.
Pachinko, Gentleman in Moscow, Crying in H Mart
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet MarillierThe Dawn of Everything: A new history of humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow
Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz (and ALL the following series)House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune
The Family Ship by Sonja Yoerg
Honourable mention to The Appeal by Janice Hallett.
For old-fashion fun: The Bullet That Missed - Richard OsmanFor beautiful magic: Dictionary of Lost words- Pip Williams
For wonderful heartache: Invisible life of Addie Larue - VE Schwab
Wendy wrote: "Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne and The Guncle by Steven Rowley"Five Little Indians was a heart wrenching, eye-opening read. Excellent book.
In no particular order:The Housekeeper by Joy Fielding
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
Fayne by Ann Marie Macdonald
Boy in the Blue Hammock by Darren Groth
This is Assisted Dying by Dr Stefanie Green
@kelli padis I liked those this year, too! If I had to choose only three that I read in 2022, they’d maybe be Our Missing Hearts, Night of the Living Rez, and Anxious People.
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins ReidFragged by Auryn Hadley & Kitty Cox
Slammed by Colleen Hoover
So many to choose: Mad Honey, One Italian Summer, The Retreat, It Ends With US, The Love Of My Life, We Were Never Here, In the Blood, Wish you were here, etc.
Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart, Plain Bad Heroines by emily m. danforth, and One Last Stop by Casey McQuinston.Honorable mentions: Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield, Migrations by Charlotte McConoughy, and The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Six of Crows by Leigh BardugoNormal People by Sally Rooney
Heartless by Marissa Meyer
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Sentence by Louise ErdrichThe Girl Who Smiled Beads by Clemantine Wamariya
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Lincoln HighwayHorse
Strangers on a Train
The Morning Star
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker, Unsettled Ground by Clare Fuller and The Break
Autumn Bleeds into Winter by Jeff StrandTell the Wolves I'm Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan
Lessons in chemistry, the personal librarian and oh william
Also loved Lucy by the sea, tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow And the maid
Demon Copperhead, Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance, The Maid
The Path of Thorns by A.G. SlatterThe Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence
Honorable mentions:
The Underground Man by Ross Macdonald
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley
The Destiny Thief: Essays on Writing, Writers and Life by Richard Russo
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Lessons in Chemistry, The Diamond Eye
My Best 2022 Are: Never Lie Freida McFadden
Verity Colleen Hoover
The Overnight Guest Heather Gudenkauf
Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone,Cloud Cuckoo Land,
This is How You Lose The Time War,
The Prisoner of Heaven
The Thursday Murder Club-Richard OsmanThe Flatshare-Beth O'Leary
Suite Francais / Irene Nemirovsky
1. Solito by Javier Zamora2. Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe
3. The Sentence by Louise Erdich
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt.The Sweet Life by Suzanne Woods Fisher
Riding Out the Rough by Hilary Walker
Project Hail MaryWest With Giraffes
This Tender Land
French Braid by Anne TylerCity of Thieves by David Benioff
Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jessmyn Ward
Hearts invisible furies, lessons in chemistry, Verity 😄
1. Roots2. The Sentence
3. The Alchemist
Harlem Shuffle -- Colson WhiteheadBattle Cry of Freedom -- James M. McPherson
Several of others that are tied for 3rd, I guess. But none that really stand out enough to mention.
The Clay Girl, The Map of Salt and Stars, and Keeper of Enchanted Rooms
Richard Hunter Macquarie, The Memory Keeper Of Kyiv and The Escape Artist
Goodreads Staff, are y’all OK with one of your own promoting a book they wrote themself as one of their top 3 reads of the year? Seems like inappropriate self-promotion to me.
My Top 10 books of the year so far!!Forever; interrupted
Maybe you should talk to somebody
Sweetbitter
Malibu Rising
Evelyn Hugo
It Ends with us
The Last Wish
The Soulmate Equation
Shatter Me
The Alchemist
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann and Salt Houses by Hala Alyan
Joan is Okay by Weike Wang, Last Night at the Trlegraph Club by Malinda Lo, Yerba Buena by Nina Lacour (Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman is basically tied with those but a bit less recent). These three were SO good!
Song of Achilles, I Must Betray You, Legends and Lattes, The Other Bennett Sister
Being Mortal by Atul GawandeKitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
Concrete Rose by Angie Thomas
The Diamond Eye, Hail Mary, Fairy Tale. Hard to pick just three!
I have the diamond eye i’m gonna be reading it this next year
* American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
* Beartown by Fredrick Bachman
* My grandmother sends her regards and apologises by Fredrik Backman.